Example sentences of "on a chair " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smoke curled , wine flowed , and Lucy put her fabulous legs on a chair , smoking too , the most relaxed thing Jay had ever seen her do . |
| 2 | Susan sat on a chair close to the screen . |
| 3 | One arm rests on the farthingale of the skirt , the hand very delicately holding a large white scarf ; the other hand rests on a chair back . |
| 4 | There 's a photo of a cat sitting on a chair , licking its paws . |
| 5 | Herr Nordern slumped on a chair . |
| 6 | Jack Carbery , fully dressed , sat on a chair beside his bed , looking up at them . |
| 7 | He sat on a chair that was embroidered , like the thing you knelt on in church . |
| 8 | A third ad showed him in a bathrobe seated cross-legged on a chair in a tropical tableau flanked man , hugging two freshly-scrubbed pigs . |
| 9 | On the coin the emperor is shown wearing a toga and seated on a chair , receiving the laurel branches of victory . |
| 10 | Sprawled on a chair in the lounge , trying to sleep , I thought of Ireland and its vanished Sovereignty . |
| 11 | And he was standing on a chair . ’ |
| 12 | He introduced himself to all the furniture , saying how nice it was to meet a particular table , or how nice the covering was on a chair . |
| 13 | He worked without an easel and with the minimum of fuss , placing his canvas on a chair and painting quietly , ‘ interrupting only now and then to take a gulp of alcohol from a bottle . |
| 14 | During his long stay in the south he made only one portrait with an out-of-doors setting ; the pretty shopkeeper , sitting on a chair in front of her shop , looking out with uncomprehending suspicion against a white wall . |
| 15 | The door was open and just inside Marcus was sitting on a chair , wrapped in what appeared to be a cloak or ulster , wearing a tweed hat and holding a stick in his hand . |
| 16 | She made for the door , but decided instead to sit down on a chair . |
| 17 | As he neared it , he suddenly stopped , staggered and sat down abruptly on a chair , leaning forward and holding his head in his hands . |
| 18 | If Marcus was sitting on his bed or walking about the room or looking out of the window , Ludens would sit near him either on a chair or else on the floor his knees up , his back against the wall . |
| 19 | Now please sit down on a chair , sit on that chair , please sit down . ’ |
| 20 | There was a cotton quilt , faded almost to invisibility , upon the bed , Marcus 's summer jacket draped on a chair , a shirt folded up , shaving things grouped on a chest of drawers . |
| 21 | She sat down on a chair in the hall beside the telephone . |
| 22 | Removing a pair of surgical gloves , he dropped them inside the open bag he 'd perched on a chair , closed the bag . |
| 23 | With good sitting balance , the patient can sit on a chair or stool in a shower compartment . |
| 24 | She helped the younger woman to the kitchen , put her on a chair and looked round for the kettle . |
| 25 | The waiter held out the straw hat which had been left behind on a chair . |
| 26 | The chaos was physical : early meetings in the Storey 's Gate offices earmarked for the new department saw George Brown on a chair while everyone else ‘ sat on the floor like Buddhas ’ . |
| 27 | Alternate benches were so made that the back could be swung over so that by a simple movement you had two benches facing each other instead of one behind the other and back-to-back with the adjoining classes , the teacher sitting on a chair between the ends of the benches . |
| 28 | She sat on a chair at the edge of the trees , an easel in front of her , painting . |
| 29 | He sat down on a chair with his back to the window and lit a cigarette . |
| 30 | When he was semi-retired he sat on a chair in the corner of the saloon , gossiping away to his customers . |