Example sentences of "sitting [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I really thought we was going to end with erm , , cos he was sitting right at the top branch , you know sawing merrily through . |
| 2 | you 're sitting right across from one but never mind |
| 3 | sitting right up your arse ? |
| 4 | Why are sitting right beside me on the phone ? |
| 5 | Later , sitting weakly on a disquietingly depopulated sun deck as we drift downriver towards Edfu , I put the worries of tropical viruses aside and watch the river banks roll lazily by , parallel fringes of lush greenery backed abruptly by the yellow hills of the desert . |
| 6 | The hall where the Children 's Clothes Exchange was taking place was organized by another bossy lady in green uniform , sitting importantly behind a desk in the doorway . |
| 7 | In the middle of this , Boy switched to a documentary made by a group of prostitutes which showed married men sitting nervously on the edges of beds in hotel rooms , sitting on neatly flowered bedspreads and having difficulty ( they were embarrassed by the female camera crew ) saying exactly what it was that they wanted to do for their thirty pounds . |
| 8 | The following day , at ten thirty in the morning , Sandison was sitting nervously at a table outside a café near Piazza Vanvitelli in the Vomero district . |
| 9 | Bruce was in the hammock and Mr and Mrs van Meer were sitting side-by-side on the steps . |
| 10 | So he looked at Matron , tight-faced and armored in starch , at Miss Guttner sitting lumpishly beyond her , her glasses shining blankly as they picked up the overhead light that filled the room with a necessary illumination against the heaviness of the sky pressing grayly against the windows . |
| 11 | Around July time Sequent will release , for its Symmetry servers , the version of Unix SVR4 ES/MP that it worked on for Unix System Labs and has been sitting on since completion last March . |
| 12 | Erm , er , Jim is , Jim is sitting on in er on the flight deck of the Enterprise and he is the guy who has to make all the decisions . |
| 13 | Mrs Denham refused his offer , and tucked the baby under one arm , and started to drag the blanket she had been sitting on after her into the house . |
| 14 | When they had eaten , sitting companionably at the kitchen table , she told him how impressed she was by his unsuspected talent . |
| 15 | They drank coffee together , sitting companionably on the edge of the bed . |
| 16 | Sitting somewhere in this huge mathematical space are humans and hyenas , amoebas and aardvarks , flatworms and squids , dodos and dinosaurs . |
| 17 | Mr Beecham placed the last sheet of stiff paper on top of a number of others and raised his gaze again to Joe , who was sitting opposite to him , and continued , ‘ There is no obstacle to your inheritance , as I can see . |
| 18 | They were dining at a common table , and a man sitting opposite to them begged to differ . |
| 19 | Athelstan hid his smile as Cranston waved him to a stool , sitting opposite in a great high-backed chair . |
| 20 | He poured himself a cup of tea and drank it , selfconsciously , very aware of her sitting tensely beside him . |
| 21 | Her father and mother were sitting tensely on the sofa , Omi at the table , upright , disdain on her fine features , Bodo , huge against the wall , and all of them staring at the stubby , shabby , ash-stained figure of Marx , blinking through his red eyes at the document and reading aloud in an artificially solemn voice , practised in legal jargon and with which he , no doubt , had read out a hundred , a thousand , such documents . |
| 22 | She was sitting tensely on the gilt chair . |
| 23 | The idea of the lofty Naylor Massingham sitting impatiently outside her apartment block for an hour was one which Leith found quite pleasing — so much so that she almost broke into a smile . |
| 24 | Sitting somnolently around the fire , all blood long since having departed the brain for regions gastric , the average Christmas reveller often feels a lingering need to continue eating . |
| 25 | She turned round and looked at the brass-dialled clock sitting starkly on a red brick wall to the side of them and added , ‘ Only half-past eight . ’ |
| 26 | In the dimming light the men were sitting together outside their hut , small children playing between the crouching forms . |
| 27 | They were sitting together over a rough table in a room in a farmhouse outside Abergavenny . |
| 28 | Guillaume had already bought some drawings of Modigliani 's , but one afternoon at the Rotonde Max Jacob and Modi were sitting together on the terrace with Modi sketching as usual on the Rotonde 's thin paper napkins when Paul Guillaume sat down at their table and asked Modigliani whether he ever painted . |
| 29 | His eyes swung round the room , but his mother and sister were sitting together on the sofa , playing with the baby , while his father , cup and saucer in hand , stood by the window with his uncles and the fierce-looking old man who was his grandfather . |
| 30 | A form arrived with the instruction ‘ State exactly how loss occurred ’ , and I wrote ‘ Lord Haig 's dog Wasp and I were sitting together on a sofa when I discovered he was eating my sweater ’ with the gravest doubts that I would be believed . |