Example sentences of "[pron] [be] sit on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm sitting on a wet bench . |
| 2 | I 'm sitting on the shady side of the train ( dum-a-di-dum , dum-a-di-dum ) but it 's hot in here too . |
| 3 | I could n't kick a door if I was sat on the bloody latch so I had to do something else . ’ |
| 4 | I WAS sitting on the other side of the fence with a vengeance on Friday evening , when I joined a large and motley chorus to sing Hiawatha 's Wedding Feast by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor . |
| 5 | I was sitting on the top deck of a London bus when the news travelled from passenger to passenger : ‘ The president of the United States has been shot . ’ |
| 6 | However , the music entrepreneur , who is sitting on a near 50% stake worth £10m , is about to make a fresh foray into the records business . |
| 7 | The pamphlet was called ’ Save our Schools ’ and its authors included the right hon. Member for St. Albans ( Mr. Lilley ) , who is now the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry , the hon. Member for Enfield , Southgate ( Mr. Portillo ) , who is now the Minister of State , Department of the Environment , the hon. Member for Gainsborough and Horncastle ( Mr. Leigh ) , who is Under-Secretary of State for Trade and Industry , the hon. Member for Stirling ( Mr. Forsyth ) , who is the Scottish Office education spokesman , the hon. Member for Mid-Worcestershire ( Mr. Forth ) , who is now at the Department of Trade and Industry , the hon. Member for Darlington ( Mr. Fallon ) , who is sitting on the Front Bench now , and the hon. Member for Southampton , Itchen ( Mr. Chope ) , who is now a junior Transport Minister . |
| 8 | What will the Scottish electorate think when they discover what the millionaire Secretary of State for the Environment , who is sitting on the right hon. Gentleman 's left , has to pay ? |
| 9 | Otherwise it tends to make the whole picture , like , I went to er er one club once and there was a very nice portrait , not unlike this , there was a girl sitting on a stool , rather less clothes on than this girl has got and it was very nicely done except she was sitting on a painted stool and all the paint was chipped and that to me looked really tacky ! |
| 10 | She was sitting on a grassy bank , leaning forward a little , a cigarette between her fingers , and she was speaking . |
| 11 | She was sitting on a diagnostic bed in what was obviously a medlab of some kind . |
| 12 | One unfortunate woman who ran a discount shoe store was oblivious to the fact she was sitting on an old school goldmine . |
| 13 | She was sitting on the top deck and was cut and bruised by branches . |
| 14 | She was sitting on the opposite side of the grate and Louise Carter thought fleetingly how proud Nora had always been of her daughter even when they had been dramatically at loggerheads and how pleased she would be if she could see her now , in her elegant black dress and silver jewellery . |
| 15 | Unaware of his presence , she was sitting on the soft springy turf , leaning back against the ancient wall of the summer-house and gazing dreamily across the blue haze of the estuary . |
| 16 | PC Donald Lucey approached a man who was sitting on the central reservation of the A Four-One-Nine at Calcutt near Swindon . |
| 17 | I mean if we go , we 're sitting on the outside and invariably they 're a bit over into the gangway well if a chap kept pushing against us as the car went round corners it would n't be very nice would it ? |
| 18 | By the middle of January 1918 the Labour leaders knew that they were sitting on a potential volcano . |
| 19 | I can stay in there they was sitting on the bleeding ! |
| 20 | It was sitting on the great high-backed chair by the fire , and it was staring at him with hate in its small red eyes . |
| 21 | Kenneth glanced at him , then looked round for Lachlan Watt ; he was sitting on a distant chair , a plate of food balanced on his knees , talking to Shona Watt , his sister-in-law . |
| 22 | He was sitting on a three-legged stool chopping sticks . |
| 23 | He was sitting on the top deck of a London bus when the idea came to him . |