Example sentences of "[noun] he [vb mod] sit [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taking a carpet needle or a dentist 's pick he would sit on the stones for hours at a time prising small fossils from particles of rock he instinctively knew concealed them . |
| 2 | his beard and everything to a T. He 'd sit at the top of the table , have his stiff white serviette tucked into his waistcoat , and he 's lifted that carving knife and fork until — you sat there and you never said a word . |
| 3 | Their king is Aillen mac Midha , and in the past he would sit at the foot of the Palace ramparts , slender and blue-green , and with the chill faery blood of all the sidh in his veins . |
| 4 | For hours he would sit by the window , and look out on the empty , Sunday street , as the church bells tolled dismally from different points in the town . |
| 5 | On warm afternoons he would sit outside the front door with a Roberts portable radio ( the all-wood construction , I learned , gave better sound quality than the plastic or metal bodies of the transistors I admired ) , listening to the cricket commentary . |