Example sentences of "[pron] sit [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And in the fourth year I tend to do them an evaluation sheet , where I write down lots of questions about the project they have just done , and maybe get them to sit for a double lesson and write about the things they experienced and found out … |
| 2 | I sit on a flat stone in one — the straw thatched roof would just have cleared my head — imagining what was kept in the neat stone alcoves . |
| 3 | I sit on a smooth stone and watch yellow-breasted finches in their dipping flights across the still-warm air . |
| 4 | When I write biographies , I sit at a large kitchen table with a wide surface on which books and papers can be laid , essential for checking quotations or references . |
| 5 | I sat on a large stone , shivering and looked north appealingly , shouting , ‘ Mick ! |
| 6 | After the girls had gone I sat for a little time , thinking . |
| 7 | Upstream , through the gorge known as the Wachau , runs one of the prettiest stretches of the river and I sat for a pleasant hour on its embankment watching the swallows skim its waters . |
| 8 | I sat for a long while , clutching the unfinished poem , gazing beyond it . |
| 9 | Afterwards I sat for a long time trying to reconcile myself to these new ideas . |
| 10 | I sat upon a disintegrating gravestone . |
| 11 | I sat beneath a metal-framed photograph ( black and white ) of fishing-boats at the Ile d'Oleron . |
| 12 | I laughed silently as I sat against a hard cushion in the palm-frond house looking at the brown eyes around me . |
| 13 | So with all this in mind , as I sat in a long queue of airmen for the preliminary examination , I was thankful . |
| 14 | I sat in a thirteenth-century hall in Bruges in September 1988 and listened to Mrs Thatcher 's speech on the future of Europe . |
| 15 | Gandalf says as much at II , 99 , though he is laconic about it — ‘ I sat in a high place ( the great tree in Lothlórien ? ] , and I strove with the Dark Tower ’ — since Aragorn and the others he is addressing can have no idea what is being referred to . |
| 16 | Last Sunday I sat in a cold room with my daughter , the two of us reviling the malign fate which had robbed us of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea , our weekly TV fix . |
| 17 | Someone sat in a little cubby-hole of an office , and there received money conveyed by means of a complicated system of overhead wires . |
| 18 | Legislative power is vested in a unicameral National Assembly which sits for a five-year term and consists of six appointed senators and 15 popularly elected representatives . |
| 19 | The FM part refers to the flame maple veneer , which sits atop a four-piece alder body with a Transparent Red ( you guessed it ) finish . |
| 20 | But Krauss suggests that we know very well what sculpture is : it is a historically bounded category , with its own set of rules , which are not open to very much change : its internal logic is that of the monument , a commemorative representation , which sits in a particular place and ‘ speaks in a symbolic tongue about the meaning or use of that place ’ . |
| 21 | He was imagining himself sitting in a tiny Kayak in the middle of the Severn looking up at a wall of water , anything from six to nine feet high depending on conditions , bearing down on him at twelve miles an hour and making more noise than a fast approaching train . |
| 22 | He found himself sitting in a leaky theatre dressing room , counting the money he was losing every day — the Hollywood stud , playing a small , virginal part in a Feydeau farce . |
| 23 | He tasted the delicate fennel-flavoured soup which sat in a shallow bowl in front of him . |
| 24 | Throughout the meeting he has been observing one student , possibly in his thirties , who sits in a long wheelchair with his legs straight , parallel with the floor . |
| 25 | The kind who sits in a little island in the middle of a highly polished marble floor , looking gorgeous and untouchable , but … ’ |
| 26 | You sit in a rocking chair but ca n't make it go . |
| 27 | She sits in a soft curve at her easel , gently swabbing away three centuries from a grumpy London sky . |
| 28 | The women who sat beside a single basket of herbs , or wild mushrooms they had gathered that morning in the dew , high in the hills , were tanned so dark they might have washed in walnut juice . |
| 29 | Used originally by Tallymen who sat behind a high desk to keep account of cargo being unloaded , and later adapted by film directors , you 'll find this seat ideal if you have a breakfast bar . |
| 30 | She sat for a long while , until her limbs became cold and stiff and her mind numb with tiredness and misery . |