Example sentences of "[conj] he [modal v] sit [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the kitchen was clean and the children put to bed , Beth and David would go to the sitting room , where he would sit at the circular table , head bent over documents and rent books . |
| 2 | During the session Sir John May , the inquiry chairman , announced that he would sit at the inquiry with three lay assessors , and that the government had agreed to the granting of immunity from prosecution to witnesses . |
| 3 | He angled his chair so that he could sit by the fire and watch her . |
| 4 | Her husband only had one leg , and he used to sit in the corner all the time and wave his stick at you if he thought you were pinching anything . |
| 5 | He was now under continuous oxygen and too weak to take solid foods , but he would sit by the fire in his wheelchair for two hours each day while his wife read , or played music , to him . |