Example sentences of "sit on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the last few years I have sat on the sidelines watching bolt-protected climbing mushrooming throughout the USA , Europe and , not least , Britain : in quarries , but also , let's be completely truthful , on natural crags . |
| 2 | She 'd sat on the stubby grass , cut short as the back of a soldier 's head . |
| 3 | ‘ Once she was a hit , we could have sat on the first contract and made more money from her . |
| 4 | Attlee and Ernest Bevin , the Foreign Secretary , had sat on the key Coalition Cabinet committees on post-war reconstruction at home and overseas . |
| 5 | I have sat on the opposite bank of a river to where a match was being fished and seen barbel breaking line time after time , and the reaction has always been the same : the tying on of a hook of the same size to the same line that barbel had already treated with the contempt it deserved . |
| 6 | Myles had sat on the edge of the chair with his hands clasped between his knees , listening to the legal measured tones , telling himself , I 'm not going to get it , I 'm not going to get it . |
| 7 | ‘ Why could n't he have sat on the trolley like he always does ? ’ her husband said . |
| 8 | Some ideas are as follows : the first team to have everyone sat on the floor , first team to have everyone standing on one leg . |
| 9 | Mrs Reveley said : ‘ Nobody else has ever sat on the horse over jumps . |
| 10 | I 've sat on the beach |
| 11 | He had thought of Harry all the way out of Rome to Leonardo da Vinci , all the time that he had stood in the check-in line , all the time he had sat on the Alitalia , all the time he had stood at Customs and Immigration at Athens International , all the time in the taxi out to the Kifisia suburb . |
| 12 | In the past he has sat on the central committee and was chairman of the London branch . |
| 13 | Had she done so she would not have said a word , would not have looked a word , would simply have sat on the bed and talked to Tina for ten minutes instead of the two of them sitting opposite each other in armchairs . |
| 14 | There may be a booklet on the subject , a special expert in the technical department who has sat on the relevant government fact-finding commission or a market research survey giving the latest market trends , any of which would help the journalists far more than the standard handouts . |
| 15 | No shrewder opportunist had sat on the English throne , but his opportunism was harnessed to some guiding principles . |
| 16 | While the Doctor stalked about the room , or fiddled with the door , or argued with the guards , the three others had sat on the floor and exchanged their stories . |
| 17 | At last a pick-up truck came bumping up the track , containing Giovanna 's fat and apparently unsatisfactory husband and a detachment of villagers , including the old men , Molly was sure , who had sat on the wall by the petrol pumps mocking her . |
| 18 | We are sat on the floor |
| 19 | Sometimes , when she had been to a romantic film , or had been kissed good-night by Pogo , she had sat on the edge of her bed , staring at that dark , handsome , boy 's face and tried to conjure up the memory of his living presence . |
| 20 | For too long we have sat on the fence regarding when a lone rescuer should leave a collapsed victim to seek medical help . |
| 21 | Overall the unit worked very well but the initial feeling that it looked really smart slowly evaporated once it had sat on the desk for an hour or two . |
| 22 | He was n't about to tell the Yank that he 'd also been duped , that he 'd sat on the information for nearly twenty-four hours . |
| 23 | I could even see Conchis , who was sitting where we had sat on the terrace the night before , apparently reading . |
| 24 | Very small children were sometimes sat on the cabin top and tied to the chimney to keep them safe . |
| 25 | The number of journalists who claim to have sat on the same sofa and had private speech with His Majesty is legion . |
| 26 | It was from the vantage point of the Master 's Lodge , a family place , that Thomson , cheerful and generous , made his most distinctive contribution to university affairs , although he had already been active since the 1930s in adult education , as both a part-time tutor and a committee member , and from 1950 to 1958 he had sat on the council of the senate . |
| 27 | His background was Presbyterian , his great-grandfather , Walter [ q.v. ] , and grandfather , Sir John , having sat on the parliamentarian side in the civil war . |
| 28 | Without any explanation , he jumped out and approached one of the Ayurvedic healers who for centuries have sat on the roadside here , surrounded by the ingredients of their trade : live iguanas whose fried juices are said to cure impotence ; ginseng for philtres used to spread or extinguish the fires of love ; tree bark to ward off a woman 's menopause ; the bringraj herb from the high Himalayas said to conquer baldness or thicken the beard of the most effete Sikh . |
| 29 | So for the past year , I 've sat on the Labour Party Trade Union Review Group , a working party set up in the heat of an election defeat , to defuse a potentially damaging row about the strange phenomenon in the party of Labour . |
| 30 | It is not certain how many of the leading members were privy to this scheme : Lloyd-Greame seems to have sat on the fence ; Hoare , Wood , Cave , Salisbury and some of the other peers stood out for Baldwin , but this was not contained in the advice which convinced Stamfordham . |