Example sentences of "sit like a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And what part did the cripple play who had sat like a malignant spirit guarding a make-shift bridge over an unimportant stream ? |
| 2 | Matters deteriorated , to the point that at a board meeting on 25 July 1984 , Fields felt obliged to bring his solicitor with him , to sit like a boxing second , while his record with the company was contested . |
| 3 | Taquile sits like a huge limpet on the peerless blue waters . |
| 4 | But it is the memory that sits like a kernel at the heart of it all . |
| 5 | Gemma sits like a reclining obelisk with messy hair dyed a shade lighter than his , large eyes resting at an artful slant , a full mouth . |
| 6 | ‘ You sit like a pair of toads , ’ said Franca . |
| 7 | Sour stomach with wind , regurgitation , reflux , nausea , food sitting like a load , the characteristic taste and salivation . |
| 8 | Old school photo graphs show him sitting like a wise and attentive owl , surrounded by his charges . |
| 9 | If the approach was that way he would get no warning at all , and it would be on top of George — his name for the dummy sitting like a drunken son-of-a-bitch — before he knew it . |
| 10 | I. There is no question , in RBL , of the student sitting like a battery hen being forcibly fed with passively received " facts " . |
| 11 | In fact she 'd had a brief nap on the flight over and the adrenalin was racing round her body , making the possibility of sleep unlikely , but anything was better than sitting like a frightened child beside him , hoping against hope that he would finally melt and utter the sort of words she had once yearned to hear . |
| 12 | I said I understand your busy , I said if you ca n't turn him say , then I will turn him in an hour I ca n't do it before , fine , I said at least I 'm not sitting like a prat telling him a load of rubbish |
| 13 | Because I , I want to sit in the room where they 're both gon na be facing not sitting like an odd dog right . |
| 14 | She should be the centre of social life abhorred and dominant , and she should sit like a great spider behind the curtains of the Garden Room , spying on her friends , and I knew that her name must be Elizabeth Mapp . |
| 15 | Great-aunts were sometimes significant : a Scots farmer 's old sister , ‘ very straightlaced … you sat like a mouse ; ’ or the great-aunt of a Portsmouth docker 's daughter , ‘ an old , old lady ’ , who liked to celebrate receiving her weekly pension — ‘ Every weekend , pension day , she had a wee brown jug and she used to send me up the beer shop to get half pint o'stout . |
| 16 | He sat like a man stunned by the sudden news of death . |
| 17 | She wondered whether Philippa had really outgrown her passion for partially disabled men but she seemed oblivious of all this and sat like a springtime sprig in a bed of roses , contemplating her coincidental twin . |
| 18 | It must have been up there for years , it weighed at least 14 carats and sat like a throbbing lime fruit pastille on the back of my unmoving hand . |
| 19 | sat like a priest , |
| 20 | It was right because he was rich and confident enough to introduce Mary Rose to his terrible clod of a brother and his wife , and to Mammy , who was old and senile and sat like a statue in a corner by the kitchen fire . |
| 21 | The uncomfortable feeling she 'd had earlier on had come back again and sat like a solid lead ball in her chest . |
| 22 | Surrounded by gale-jangled remnants of the vitreous bubble , Daak sat like a lord and looked down , grinning , as they approached . |
| 23 | He placed it on a bale of straw and pulled up an upturned bucket as a chair before hopping on to a meal bin where he sat like a pixie on a toadstool with his arms around his knees , regarding me with keen anticipation . |
| 24 | The brown teapot with a slightly broken spout sat like a cold little sentinel on the hob , jackdaws rustled above it in the chimney . |
| 25 | She sat like a small spruce viper , neatly coiled opposite him . |
| 26 | Maggie gasped but Ana sat like a rod , a smug little smile on her face , only one hand still on the reins , no sign of panic . |
| 27 | He sat like a woman and talked like one , sending coy glances at all of us . |
| 28 | Siward 's shoulders were massive , and his beard sat like a cushion between them . |
| 29 | I sat like a Hector until I suddenly remembered my stomach and began noisily to vomit . |
| 30 | Disappointment sat like a boulder inside Juliet 's stomach . |