Example sentences of "[noun] sit [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Mandera refugee camp sits just inside the Kenyan border with Somalia . |
| 2 | Ajayi sat down on the small stool on the other side of the table . |
| 3 | Those who have worked with him during the time that he has been in his present post have come to admire the hard work , courage and assiduity with which he has pursued the object of bringing the parties within the island of Ireland to sit down with the British Government and resolve their differences . |
| 4 | While permanent courts were established in the main centres of population , High Court judges continued to be itinerant , backed up by circuit judges sitting continuously in the main centres . |
| 5 | Karen sat down in the soft , dark sand and let the ripples of cold Atlantic water wash round her thighs . |
| 6 | Kiah and Rilla sat down on the expensive green and black chairs and looked at the expensive flowers on the tables . |
| 7 | Katherine sat back into the heavy leather chair , watching the tall , thin man , her face hard and impassive . |
| 8 | Zen sat down on the large sofa which occupied most of one wall , thinking about that last card which he 'd fondly thought he had up his sleeve . |
| 9 | Ten PPP MPs from Sind demanded the right to sit separately from the main PPP block in the National Assembly . |
| 10 | Far too tuneful to be described as hardcore and too noisy to be deemed a pop/punk band , The Venus Beads sit comfortably on the barbed wire fence in between . |
| 11 | Far too tuneful to be described as hardcore and too noisy to be deemed a pop/punk band , The Venus Beads sit comfortably on the barbed wire fence in between . |
| 12 | ‘ Three weeks sitting in for the regular breakfast show jock on a commercial station there , while he takes over your show here . |
| 13 | What are you doing sat up in the high chair ? |
| 14 | On the other side of Pottery Bridge , carrying the A639 , a sizable marine vessel sits up on the right bank . |
| 15 | • In the chill of Winter the Yew Fairy sits dreamily amidst the waxen berries . |
| 16 | Philip sat down on the wet scree thinking about the War , and Arnhem where Great Uncle John had been killed . |
| 17 | Aggie sat down on the wooden chair and drew Millie close to her side as the woman at the far side of the desk smiled gently at her , saying , ‘ I am very pleased to meet you , Mrs Winkowski . |
| 18 | Maxim sat carefully on the least-soft chair he could find . |
| 19 | " Well , " Graham said awkwardly as Sara sat down on the small bed , " that 's us told . " |
| 20 | Yet , unable to refuse the implied reproach , Celia sat down in the antique rocking chair she had bought and allowed Miss Maynard to pass her the child . |
| 21 | The Renaissance W door sits strangely with the Gothic . |
| 22 | MARTHA HARLEY SAT down on the mossy stone parapet of the old bridge to put on her shoes . |
| 23 | So when the Trunchbull sat down on the Golden Syrup , the squelch was beautiful . |
| 24 | Tuppe sat gloomily upon the tall boy 's rucksack . |
| 25 | He let her go abruptly , walking out of the barn , and Jenna sat down on the bottom step of the dusty wooden stairs . |
| 26 | Christina sat down in the small desk chair , her legs unsteady . |
| 27 | After deciding to have her favourite crab-cakes , Christina sat back in the uncomfortable rattan chair , admiring Pauline 's Batik printed dress . |
| 28 | Charles sat gingerly on the mock leopard . |
| 29 | Previous Marxist descriptions of the democratic state as a nakedly repressive apparatus attuned only to the behests of capitalists sat unsatisfactorily with the apparent emergence of government planning and ‘ caring capitalism ’ , at least in the period from the early 1950s to the late 1970s . |
| 30 | But the traditions and conventions of scepticism and proper doubt sit uneasily with the current politics of commitment and conviction , whether of the left or the right . |