Example sentences of "sitting [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lihir Island , off the west coast of New Ireland ( itself sitting off the north coast of Papua New Guinea ) is said to have the world 's largest gold deposit — though as it sits inside a volcano the deeper the miners dig , the hotter they get . |
| 2 | Bobby Patsy , sitting off the top of the handicap , could claim the trophy with a repeat of her earlier round performance . |
| 3 | When he gives evidence , sitting for the most part on two cushions , he leans forwards attentively like a headmaster , and with something of the same terrifying effect . |
| 4 | It took a day of debate additional to the agreed three-day sitting for the amended proposals to be passed , clause by clause . |
| 5 | Since we are satisfied that by the operation of the Judicature Act 1873 and its successor statutes High Court judges are sitting as the High Court when they exercise their jurisdiction as visitors to the Inns of Court in disciplinary matters , there is nothing in Lord Diplock 's speech in that case which derogates from the proposition that they are not susceptible to judicial review , which is available , as Lord Diplock said , at p. 384 , as a remedy for mistakes of law made by inferior courts and tribunals only , and not for mistakes of law made by the High Court itself . |
| 6 | On Oct. 26 , 1989 , the House of Lords , sitting as the final court of appeal , ruled that while the ITC and its members had a moral responsibility to its creditors , the creditors had no contractual claims under English law against the 22 member states of the ITC . |
| 7 | Sitting between the driver and the sergeant , she gritted her teeth as her bones were pounded by every pothole in Port-au-Prince . |
| 8 | I was sitting between the principal of a college for policewomen and a rather saucy lady novelist . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Simon sitting between the twins and Piggy , wiped his mouth and shoved his piece of meat over the rocks to Piggy who grabbed it . |
| 10 | Watching Violet sitting through the preliminaries to the world title elimination bout was rather like watching her son as he prepared for the fight . |
| 11 | Indeed , sitting through the replay it was difficult to gauge whether it was live or not . |
| 12 | Young Victor , a Romantic from birth , was excited when the family was given free seats for the theatre for every night of its stay , less excited when he found out that the programme never changed , so that it meant sitting through the same melodrama every night for a month . |
| 13 | Tammuz , sitting opposite the gleaming androgyne of surgery and neural nudging , considered that he himself was feeling far from good that day . |
| 14 | The Frenchman from the tourist police the day before had been sitting opposite the victims . |
| 15 | I am sitting opposite the Baroness — who was acquitted in August 1989 of the murder of her ex-husband Simon Dale , and in April this year sentenced to seven years imprisonment for forging the will of her elderly aunt , Lady Illingworth , and for stealing more than £500,000 from her — in the visitors ' room at Askham Grange prison , outside York . |
| 16 | For all Dougal knew he was sitting opposite the murderer . |
| 17 | Sitting behind the wheel of the Lagonda , he tried to understand why the old man had discouraged him . |
| 18 | The rules for the cameras in committees are essentially the same as in the House , except that it is recognised that it is not possible to exclude shots showing the public , especially those sitting behind the witnesses in a select committee . |
| 19 | There was this guy sitting behind the desk with a guitar , practising his flamenco scales . |
| 20 | A young man in his twenties , with short cropped hair and glasses was sitting behind the netting talking to him . |
| 21 | A person sitting behind the steering wheel being pushed by people outside the vehicle , if he is acting in conjunction with those people . |
| 22 | A learner driver sitting behind the steering wheel is a driver even though the qualified driver has control of the vehicle as well and could also be said to be driving . |
| 23 | The Trunchbull was sitting behind the teacher 's table staring with a mixture of horror and fascination at the newt wriggling in the glass . |
| 24 | It was so seldom that Aggie heard herself addressed by her surname that she turned and looked at the nun , but the woman 's eyelids were lowered as if in shame ; then she inclined her head towards the woman sitting behind the desk before turning and closing the door quietly behind her . |
| 25 | The man was sitting behind the single wooden desk that was , in addition to three chairs , the only furniture in the room . |
| 26 | I was sitting behind the sofa playing with a kind of milk lorry I had . |
| 27 | They were crouching and sitting behind the hessian screens in the typing-pool . |
| 28 | He was sitting behind the big desk in his office when the telephone rang . |
| 29 | He was sitting behind the tea tray , with its vast load of silver , reading Horse and Hound — Twomey came in to take the tea tray away , and with it the smaller table which held the dish of scones , the plate of sandwiches ( Gentleman 's Relish ) , the fruit cake and the plain sponge . |
| 30 | She only realised then that she was sitting behind the wheel and her flushed face flushed even further as she moved across with great difficulty . |