Example sentences of "people sit [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hundreds of people sit at cafés on the pavement on either side of the road enjoying the sights . |
| 2 | This suggests that you should sit at arms length from your monitor and should n't site desks so that people sit near the back of monitors . |
| 3 | ‘ How many people sit in a theatre ? |
| 4 | Against this background of craters and devastated buildings people sit in the sun at cafes open again for a town which has nothing else to do but drink coffee and wait for the future . |
| 5 | Yes we were told they 're going to be trees like that because they 've had a lot of trouble with pigeons roosting in the erm the mature trees and it 's impossible for people to sit on the benches underneath cos of er pigeon mess . |
| 6 | I mean were people sitting with robes on or something ? |
| 7 | Some of the people sitting at the big table did not even raise their eyes . |
| 8 | From the corner where she squatted on a stool , she watched Midnight quietly serving the six people sitting at the long table ; n the centre of the room and , in spite of her hunger , was impressed by the careful , unobtrusive way he worked — standing always on the left of each person , never knocking against them or even brushing the backs of their tall chairs . |
| 9 | If a group of people sitting at a dining table had their entire bodies shrouded under some tent-like garment , there are two ways in which the expert observer of eating behaviour could differentiate the fat from the slim . |
| 10 | ‘ Although there are several people sitting on the FISA Commission whom I like and respect , none of them has ever done any serious motor racing , ’ he warned . |
| 11 | In the summer , he lived in a little house surrounded by sunflowers higher than it was , beside a village with a pale blue pump in the centre , with geese marching around , pigeons gurgling ( they have a different accent on the Continent ) and people sitting on walls gossiping in the evening . |
| 12 | Only a few moments later , a pew gave way under the weight of so many people sitting on it . |
| 13 | We leave the Plaza Palmeras as the sun sets , with people sitting on their balcony sipping a cool drink from the fridge . |
| 14 | There was already a crowd of people sitting on the grass outside the hospital . |
| 15 | Too many people sitting on the fence , exercising nothing but their asses . |
| 16 | ‘ I am a coach , but I ca n't coach people sitting on a bus , a train or an aeroplane . ’ |
| 17 | Now that does n't really work here because we have a policy that we do n't have notices , you may have noticed already , we do n't have notices saying do n't and we do n't object to people sitting on the furniture , handling this and that , doing what they like . |
| 18 | That 's it yeah , and erm I was erm Wally and Gordon and he thinks there 's another couple you see , so I said well , you know , and I told him about the heater you see and he know , I said when people sitting on their backsides in committee making decisions , I said , you know , I said it just makes me bloody well annoyed , he said I know he said they do n't , they , they make the decisions and , but they do n't do the nitty gritty , they you know |
| 19 | No one entered Harry Short 's house without an invitation and to find Kelly Connor of all people sitting across the breakfast table was like a practical joke in very poor taste . |
| 20 | No , people sitting across in the other benches saying of course they can are wrong . |
| 21 | Ten lots of none ten people sitting round a table and they all got nothing they all got none . |
| 22 | Five good so we 'd have all the people sitting round a table five sets or two . |
| 23 | We had Palace Manchester United people sitting round us and there was no problem were there Paul ? |
| 24 | erm , the thing about it is is that I mean , one of we we 've at the minute we 've been faced with with some individuals reckoning that they have er rashes forming around the face er in a number of areas and there 's an indication that , and it 's nothing more than that , that it could actually be to do with the laser printers and people sitting near them in the light . |
| 25 | There were n't many people sitting near us , so I tried to make polite conversation , but he was n't having any . |
| 26 | Vi Gillman , spokeswoman for the National Back Pain Association , said the problem was caused by the way seats were designed and the posture of the people sitting in them . |
| 27 | There 's this big brass band set up in the middle of the station with these people sitting in chairs with their instruments all silvery and shiny . |
| 28 | But most of the 8,000 people sitting in the glass house are tourists drawn by Mr Schuller 's fame ( he is seen by about 1.3m American households each Sunday ) and the eye-popping spectacle of the cathedral designed by Mr Philip Johnson . |
| 29 | But when convoys of vehicles arrived at the sites to start their planned test drilling in August 1986 they met a blockade of people sitting in the road . |
| 30 | You have the choice of being snooty and tutting at people sitting in their cars , packing their faces with hot dogs , or you can pack your own face with a hot dog before you set out . |