Example sentences of "[noun] sitting [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They then worked slowly through the chronology , all the parties sitting informally round a small table ; so informal , in the mythology , that the subsequent TV docudrama put Meese in a startling pink-and-lavender tracksuit , drinking coffee from a mug . |
| 2 | I thought this a stupid attitude , rather as if people sitting comfortably in a first-class railway carriage should complain that being an engine driver was a filthy occupation . |
| 3 | ‘ Shamus sitting there like a stuck pig , and Kevin lookin' at his teacup . |
| 4 | To his surprise , when they got to the pub , he found Valerie Cass sitting there over a large gin . |
| 5 | She turned round and looked at the brass-dialled clock sitting starkly on a red brick wall to the side of them and added , ‘ Only half-past eight . ’ |
| 6 | One late summer morning when Celia was getting on for four years old , Harriet drove back to Four Winds after one of her solo shopping-trips and was surprised to find Liza sitting outside with a young woman of about her own age . |