Example sentences of "who sat on " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Of the seventy-two DUP members who sat on councils in 1978 , sixty were Free Presbyterians : eighty-three per cent ! |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | As Sir Alan Walters once remarked , he is a cushion that ‘ bears the imprint of the last person who sat on him ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Harry turned to his youngest son , who sat on his left and who was the family favourite . |
| 9 | There followed individual portraits of Bobby ( Walker Art Gallery , Liverpool ) , Eric ( Royal Albert Museum , Exeter ) , Oska , who sat on several occasions , as well as one of Judith Hollman ( Colour Plate VIII ) . |
| 10 | " The gentlemen who sat on the bench were more or less connected with the shipping trade , and the law had been somewhat strained to obtain the conviction " . |
| 11 | Arghatun was speaking at considerable length , but every so often he paused and the man who sat on the tail of the cart asked what appeared to be a series of questions . |
| 12 | Kragan did n't add that he had never trusted the newspaper proprietor who sat on the council . |
| 13 | ‘ This is April , ’ he said , indicating a nondescript , darkish girl who sat on a corner of the sofa . |
| 14 | He stood diffidently to the side of a group , or featured as a background — the pair of legs clutched by baby Louise , a blurred figure in a field beyond Helen and Edward who sat on a rug eating sandwiches . |
| 15 | Wycliffe was startled by the question , which did not come from Sarah but from an old lady who sat on the far side of the fire . |
| 16 | Wycliffe had perched himself on a stool between Hilda , who was seated at her desk , and Ralph , who sat on a seat like a chapel pew . |
| 17 | It was only a pallid disc in the sky , shedding thin white light through the still air on to the faces of a few well-wrapped-up and elderly people , who sat on the benches along the Promenade , taking the air . |
| 18 | Now there was her bantam hen to visit that tame favourite who sat on her head when she walked into the drawing room , the admiration of all , whose food she sometimes nibbled at . |
| 19 | He removed his arm from her shoulders and leaned back against the wall , his gaze still on the fair-haired young girl who sat on the bicycle , ready to move off , the wind blowing her skirt and hair . |
| 20 | She began by waking up on the tail-end of absorbing conversations with the white-robed monk who sat on the chair beside her , and it was n't long before the discussions became a full-time activity . |
| 21 | The interesting factor in all those arguments is that my hon. Friends who sat on the respective Committees or spoke on the Second Reading of Bills associated with privatisation said at the time that the Government were privatising monopoly , not introducing effective competition and regulation , and the matter would have to be examined again . |
| 22 | On May 20 the Iraqi National Assembly issued a statement rejecting the decisions of the UN 's Iraq-Kuwait border demarcation committee , saying that Iraq strongly opposed the committee 's structure and the method it had followed , and that Iraq had had no say in choosing the three independent experts who sat on it . |
| 23 | Sir Kingsley Wood , the Chancellor of the Exchequer , who sat on the committee , wanted this paper shelved , but his view was rejected . |
| 24 | A full-time multiprofessional Management Board would be created to implement its policies and the link between them was the Chief Executive who sat on both . |
| 25 | He was also the fellow who sat on the ground in what was called a " Robinson Jacket " and was snatched from an absolutely stationary position on the ground by an Anson with a hook ; this was a device to snatch injured personnel off the battlefield and into the air . |
| 26 | He looked at Lady Horne who sat on the other side of the fireplace , an ivory and pearl rosary entwined around her fingers . |
| 27 | Those of us who sat on the urban policies committee for a number of years seeing Moat devour and all the stoppages and problems there , knew that you were taking the wrong line . |