Example sentences of "[noun] sit [prep] the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | with 60 kids sitting on the floor in the first grade . |
| 2 | Downes sat at the table in Interview Room Two on the ground floor , spell-bound and motionless , as if a witch had drawn a circle round him thrice . |
| 3 | Encouraging a relaxed atmosphere , provision of toys , and letting the child sit on the potty in the middle of family activities can help establish positive attitudes to toileting . |
| 4 | I incurred his displeasure on one occasion , there was a young lady sat on the form in front , we had those , where you sat in pairs , on the iron sort of things . |
| 5 | An old lady sat by the fire in an armchair of slatted wood and a little boy was pushing a toy lorry on the mat . |
| 6 | Rory sat on the grass in front of Prentice and held his foot . |
| 7 | There 's a woman sitting on the bench in front of me and she 's eating chips from a bag . |
| 8 | ‘ Does she mention David these days ? ’ asked Rachel curiously , looking out of the window at Jennifer sitting on the patio in her wheelchair talking to her father . |
| 9 | There 's an audience of people sitting in the room in front of me , and they 're singing , and they 're in total darkness too . |
| 10 | Outside the door , where the orderlies sat on the ground in a row , their backs to the wall , a woman was berating the coffee orderly , Yussuf . |
| 11 | Anne sat in the front in the passenger seat while Adam was in the back with Abigail . |
| 12 | Dressed in flowing trousers and a tunic of billowing rose — they let her have clothes , now , providing she chose them herself by drawing what it was she wanted — she spent hours sitting at the table in the artificial sun over the balcony , the day 's book-cube dangling forgotten from her fingers . |
| 13 | In Britain , for these women who live alone with their husbands , this comfort is lacking , the afternoon hour spent lying on a bed chatting with their sisters-in-law , combing and oiling each other 's hair , is replaced by empty hours sitting by the heater in some grey suburb . |
| 14 | The discussion will be led by Professor Frank Lees , of Loughborough University , who was appointed in 1988 as one of the three technical assessors to sit with the judge in the public enquiry into the Piper Alpha disaster . |
| 15 | Mark sits on the floor in the comer , trying not to look . |
| 16 | It was late afternoon , the micro hones had been taken away , the hall was only half lit ; Karajan sat with the orchestra in something closer to a seance or seminar than a rehearsal . |
| 17 | Nevertheless each year on election day , as Carel Weight observed , Minton sat near the telephone in the Senior Common Room in the hope of acceptance . |
| 18 | Liam Devlin sat at the piano in the Lights of Lisbon , a cigarette dangling from the corner of his mouth , a glass of wine on one side . |
| 19 | Did the Secretary of State read in the memoirs of Dr. Garrett FitzGerald that during the negotiations on the Anglo-Irish Agreement the Government had been prepared to allow judges from the courts in the Irish Republic to sit on the Bench in Northern Ireland as part of what are described as mixed courts , but that that was stopped because of the resistance of then then Lord Chief Justice , Lord Lowry ? |
| 20 | I opened one of the doors and Al Waxman opened the other , and there was Michael sitting on the floor in the wardrobe . |
| 21 | Helen Sandberg sat at the radio in the control room . |