Example sentences of "[conj] he sit [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | David Tory , the president of the Open Software Foundation , has added another directorship to his CV , joining the board of directors at Service Systems International Ltd where he sits alongside an old colleague , chairman of the board Sam Goodner . |
| 2 | Fred would listen patiently until he could stand no more and then depart to the small back yard , where he sat on an upturned tea-chest and vowed that one day he would forget how efficient his kitchen hand was and just do away with her . |
| 3 | When arrangements were made in the summer of 1278 to establish two permanent circuits of the general eyre he was one of the justices appointed to the ‘ northern ’ circuit and he sat as a junior justice in every eyre of that circuit down to 1288 . |
| 4 | And he sat for a long time in a melancholy reverie as the ants continued to drift down , thinking of the futility of all endeavour . |
| 5 | But now it was all over and he sat in the big armchair as dawn lightened the front windows and gave thanks , with a cup of coffee , to the Child of Prague high on the opposite wall . |
| 6 | And so while he sat in a German public library and the story of the murder in the park unfolded before him in the newspapers , a novel began to stir . |
| 7 | The estimable Anderson spoke half-truths as his friend and fellow bag-carrier , Billy Gunn , now explained as he sat on a green caddies ' bench and waited for the call to duty . |
| 8 | Back in the room , he made her kneel before him , as he sat on the upright chair . |
| 9 | As he sat in a roaring solitary splendour twenty thousand feet over the turbulent , endless ocean wastes , he had no idea of the appropriateness of the poem he had just read . |