Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] sit in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I always think back to the er the time I think Edmund and I were sitting in the back garden here and deciding that we 'd go off and join the paratroopers |
| 2 | Well , the people were so impressed they , you could have heard a pin drop in that hall , and he really in our Welsh way he put it over proper you know and erm the Chairman made a quite a nice remark in the end he said , Now he said we must remember these two fellows here , I said , They are Welsh and they speak Welsh as their first language they do n't speak it for fancy they use it every day and he said I think they 've done exceedingly well er to come down here and give us the Because what happen I was sit in the front row and somebody asked me a question and he said , Perhaps er Dafydd there can answer . |
| 3 | I was sitting in a congealed pool of stickiness . |
| 4 | I was sitting in a large cinema , with a lot of other people , and there was an American guy talking about the effects of nuclear war . |
| 5 | It was half-past — two in the morning and I was sitting in the front passenger seat in dad 's Cortina while my sister Jean , who was driving , sent it hurtling down the road towards Carlisle . |
| 6 | But when they reached the drawing room , the only people there were Mrs Denham and Martin , and the baby , which was sitting in a high chair . |
| 7 | She was sitting in a slatted wooden armchair to the left of the stove , her father 's chair . |
| 8 | ‘ She was sitting in a black carriage , ’ I replied . |
| 9 | Maxine told me that she had known all the time that she was her twentieth-century self and that she was sitting in a comfortable chair in my consulting room . |
| 10 | She told me that the previous year she had confided to an American friend in Rome that the two people who most fascinated her in the world were Albert Schweitzer and Herbert von Karajan ; and a year later she was sitting in an empty hall with Walter Legge , Elisabeth Schwarzkopf , and Herbert von Karajan listening to a private recital on the organ by Albert Schweitzer . |
| 11 | She was sitting in the main client 's chair wearing a dark brown suit with a faint orange check and clutching a huge floppy handbag in her lap . |
| 12 | She was sitting in the relative sanctuary of Guy 's iron-grey Aston Martin as they negotiated heavy traffic across London . |
| 13 | It narrowly missed one of the occupants who was sitting in the front room . |
| 14 | As a result his friend Shean Kearney , 23 , who was sitting in the front passenger seat was fatally injured . |
| 15 | One moment we were sitting in a packed meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party , hearts aflutter , waiting for the results . |
| 16 | We were sitting in the small , side bar in the Nashville . |
| 17 | Twenty minutes later they were sitting in a little restaurant drinking retsina . |
| 18 | They were sitting in the front line of chairs . |
| 19 | And if they were together in Hampton Wick , if they were sitting in the front room of his home in south-west London , then Holly 's company Fiesta would be in the road outside , and the clothes would be smart on his back , and the whisky and water in his hand , and the confidence in his talk . |
| 20 | It was sitting in the old swivel chair in the manager 's office , reading a paper . |
| 21 | He was sitting in a new white Jensen sports car that was covered in mud , with a sensational blonde , sensational . |
| 22 | She kissed Mike and Sally ; he was sitting in a huge armchair , looking through the notes for his radical teachers group meeting , Sally sitting quietly on his lap . |
| 23 | He was sitting in the front row of his theatre watching me , a notebook balanced on the leg of his rancid trousers . |
| 24 | He was sitting in the stern sheets with the money belt in his hands . |
| 25 | He was sitting in the little hut where you bought your tickets to get on to the Big Wheel . |
| 26 | Wycliffe , in the big black leather armchair by the empty grate , wondered if he was sitting in the old man 's chair . |