Example sentences of "who sat [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only other person in the bar was a tramp who sat without a drink , muttering imprecations and occasionally turning and flashing his bloodshot eyes in the direction of some imaginary enemy to his right and stabbing the air with one crooked finger . |
| 2 | Many of the men who sat outside the tents were stripped to the waist and some of them were barefoot . |
| 3 | It was one of the schools that came out of the Reformation , for it was founded during the reign of Queen Mary by a landowner who sat for Derbyshire in Parliament . |
| 4 | McQuade was a working-class Protestant , ex-soldier , docker , and professional boxer who sat for North Belfast and continued the independent unionist tradition of men like Henderson and Nixon . |
| 5 | The sitter seems to have been one of the more vapid society cocottes who sat for Vigee-Lebrun . |
| 6 | ‘ If the country were governed from here , we 'd be far better off , ’ says a Tory peer who sat for three decades in the Commons . |
| 7 | It was probably his uncle , another Maximilian , who was MP for Westbury , Wiltshire , in 1628–9 , and his cousin Edmund who sat for Chipping Wycombe , Buckinghamshire , in the Convention Parliament of 1660 . |
| 8 | ‘ You have the same wonderful face , but where is the kind and gentle boy who sat for my portrait ? |
| 9 | The county members and those who sat for the few boroughs in which the franchise was reasonably wide were normally the most independent of eighteenth-century MPs ; but they were in a minority . |
| 10 | Lehmann watched them laugh , his eyes drawn to the man who sat to the extreme right of the group . |
| 11 | There was the black coffin with its silvered ornaments and the mourner who sat at its head this time was a widowed husband ! |
| 12 | Only two men and a woman , who sat at a centre table , were not at work , though the woman had a piece of sewing in her hands . |
| 13 | Foxe describes how ‘ Master Tyndale , a man of no great stature ’ , was courteously persuaded to walk ahead , whilst the tall and comely Philips behind him pointed over his head ‘ so that the officers who sat at the door might see that it was he whom they should take ; as the officers that took Master Tyndale afterwards told Poyntz , they pitied to see his simplicity when they took him . ’ |
| 14 | They possessed a faint whiff of humour , those men who sat at the ankles of Iosif . |
| 15 | He stood in the damp boots that leaked the snow wet to his socks , and he hated the man who sat at the desk . |
| 16 | " In that case I 'll accompany you , " he said abruptly , and offered her his arm like the gentleman he wanted to be , so that the women and old men who sat at their doorways in West Street stared in amazement at the unprecedented sight of Harry Pascoe on an errand of mercy with his wife . |
| 17 | I am also the woman who sat at the crossroads . |
| 18 | What Katherine found daunting was the ambience within : the large unsmiling woman who sat at a table in the entrance hall and stiffly handed her two sheets of paper , one with a map of the school which showed her own room clearly marked , the other with a long list of instructions printed in four languages , French , German , Italian and English ; a smell which mingled disinfectant and scouring soap ; the difference in temperature between the stifling main body of the school and the chill of the outlying wing where she found her room . |
| 19 | The only sounds in the room were the scratching of his pen-nib as he made each entry , and the chink of coins as he counted them out of the cash box — and the heavy breathing of Marcus Judge , who sat at the other side of the desk , his eyes fixed upon his son . |
| 20 | They passed from her to Louis , who sat at the other end of the sofa reading Le Figaro . |
| 21 | The bar had just opened and the only customer was Ernie Passmore , who sat at one of the tables , a huge , freckled hand clasping a pint glass . |
| 22 | The person who sat at the side of the Secretary of State was the regional officer from Leeds . |
| 23 | The rest of the place was empty except for Devlin who sat at a table against the far wall reading a small book , a glass of beer at his hand . |
| 24 | The photograph was n't very much like the girl who sat on the other side of the desk , but passport photographs seldom are much like their originals . |
| 25 | Of the seventy-two DUP members who sat on councils in 1978 , sixty were Free Presbyterians : eighty-three per cent ! |
| 26 | Macmillan showered political honours on his backbenchers like confetti , and during the thirteen years of Conservative government which ended in 1964 over two hundred MPs , one third of all those who sat on the Tory benches , were rewarded with some sort of gong . |
| 27 | As Sir Alan Walters once remarked , he is a cushion that ‘ bears the imprint of the last person who sat on him ’ . |
| 28 | What she liked about the Savoy was the lack of babushkas , the old women who sat on every floor in all the other hotels and recorded all the movements . |
| 29 | The Minister of State at the Home Office , Alice Bacon , who sat on the Labour Party 's National Executive , had been a member , while two others , Mrs Serota and Dr T.C.N. Gibbens , were included amongst the membership of the Royal Commission . |
| 30 | Tony Long , who sat on a government working party discussing the directive in the mid-1980s while working for the Council for the Protection of Rural England , now runs WWF 's Brussels office . |