Example sentences of "[pron] sit [prep] a [noun sg] in " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Someone sitting in a compartment in front of you when you got on the train at Didcot ? ’ |
| 2 | I sat at a table in the window and drank a filtre . |
| 3 | I sat in a dhaba in the shade of a tarpaulin , nibbling Id sweets and watching the festive crowds milling all around me . |
| 4 | What Katherine found daunting was the ambience within : the large unsmiling woman who sat at a table in the entrance hall and stiffly handed her two sheets of paper , one with a map of the school which showed her own room clearly marked , the other with a long list of instructions printed in four languages , French , German , Italian and English ; a smell which mingled disinfectant and scouring soap ; the difference in temperature between the stifling main body of the school and the chill of the outlying wing where she found her room . |
| 5 | She sat for a moment in silence . |
| 6 | She sat on a stool in the kitchen and gave orders like an admiral , you know , and it was wonderful . |
| 7 | If you sat with a girl in rows A to F , you 'd just met . |
| 8 | The journey there was uneventful and we sat on a seat in the Market Place to eat our sandwiches . |
| 9 | We sat for a while in the sitting-room over coffee . |
| 10 | And feeling rather as if she were in a dream , she found herself sitting on a sofa in a quaint old-fashioned parlour , with Roger Kenyon , housebreaker , beside her . |
| 11 | They used to giggle and splutter when they saw the old man , thinking of him sitting on a toadstool in the moonlight . |
| 12 | I write about Agnes , I try to imagine her , I let her sit on a bench in the sauna , walk around Paris , leaf through a magazine , talk with her husband , but the thing that started it all , the gesture of a woman waving to a lifeguard by the side of a pool , it must seem as if I had forgotten that . |
| 13 | They sat for a while in thoughtful silence while the shower passed from the surface of the lake and the light hiss of the rain ceased . |
| 14 | They sat for a minute in silence as if what had passed between them needed to be assimilated in peace . |
| 15 | They sat for a moment in glum accord watching the evening thicken outside . |
| 16 | They sat at a table in the corner of the restaurant . |
| 17 | They sat at a table in front of her , and talked quietly . |
| 18 | They sat on a bench in the Flower Walk , the beautifully tended beds laid out for them and all the tulips listening attentively , and Maggie broke the rule of her lifetime and told Hermione about Fenna . |
| 19 | They sat on a couch in the empty room and Rose stared at her feet . |
| 20 | Four members of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan , or Kordestan Democratic Party ( KDPI ) , including the secretary-general , Sadeq Sharafbandi , were killed by unknown men with sub-machine-guns as they sat in a restaurant in Berlin on Sept. 17 . |
| 21 | He sits on a bench in his braces , |
| 22 | He sits as a judge in the House of Lords , where he also acts as Speaker ; he is a cabinet minister and advises on constitutional issues ; and his department , established in 1885 , is our nearest approach to a Ministry of Justice and has responsibility for many aspects of the legal system . |
| 23 | He sat on a stool in my kitchen while I was cooking lunch and said , ‘ Do you like this song ? and proceeded to play ‘ Space Oddity ’ . |
| 24 | When he was semi-retired he sat on a chair in the corner of the saloon , gossiping away to his customers . |
| 25 | Very loudly ( ad for some time before ) , a tailor had been singing as he sat at a window in a comer of the yard . |
| 26 | Uncle Ted had done absolutely nothing since the day Dad exorcized him as he sat with a record-player in his lap . |
| 27 | When Amis visited his friend Larkin at Leicester University College after the war , fresh from the army , he sat in a chair in the senior common room , listened to the academic gossip , sniffed the air and said : ‘ Yes , I could stand this ’ — to become a lecturer in Swansea . |
| 28 | But on the plus side , I always thought the 1985 picture of Elvis Costello , Agnes Bernelle and myself sitting in a bar in Camden was quite charming . |