Example sentences of "to sit [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the search began in January 1989 for 12 people who had never watched his testimony to sit as a jury at North 's trial , one cartoonist imagined it would have to be composed of mujahedin from Afghanistan ; a satirist announced that the first two jurors selected were Hsing-Hsing and Ling-Ling , the pandas from Washington Zoo . |
| 2 | The bishop declared that for a clerk in holy orders to sit as a justice in eyre for forest pleas was contrary to the canons of the Church , and rendered him ineligible for an office involving the cure of souls . |
| 3 | While weighing up the merits of the posts of legal advisor to the Girls Public Day School Trust versus running a legal advice centre in a South London Mental Hospital , she was invited to sit as a Judge on the South-East Circuit and then , of course , her mind was made up . |
| 4 | I got him to sit as a model . |
| 5 | I thought I 'd write to a few comedians to see if I could get them to sit for a portrait , to get a few shots together for my portfolio , and then , suddenly , this snowball seemed to start rolling … |
| 6 | Muriella , more shaken by her fall than she had expected , was glad to sit for a while . |
| 7 | Putting a hand on her arm , he said gently , ‘ Would you like to sit for a while and tell me about it ? ’ |
| 8 | A kitchen timer that rings to indicate to the child when they have managed to sit for a specific length of time can be linked to the reward chart . |
| 9 | Recorders ( of whom there are over seven hundred , plus some five hundred Assistant Recorders ) are practising barristers or solicitors who are required to sit for a few weeks each year . |
| 10 | 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 … |
| 11 | She 'd never known any details ; she did n't know if the accident happened early on , or whether she would have to sit for a long time just waiting for the inevitable . |
| 12 | We will review the decision on an annual basis as our video list grows — maybe producing a series of loop tapes each one covering a particular sector of the market so that customers interested in adult/business English videos do n't have to sit through a section on ‘ watch with mother ’ levels . |
| 13 | ‘ Since fall 1980 each American academic exchange delegation to visit Peking has had to sit through a lengthy recounting of the research improprieties I am alleged to have committed , ’ Mosher said , in a statement last week . |
| 14 | Imagine what it is like to sit through a meeting , go to the theatre or try to follow a further education class if it is essential to see the speaker 's face in order to understand what is said . |
| 15 | Matters deteriorated , to the point that at a board meeting on 25 July 1984 , Fields felt obliged to bring his solicitor with him , to sit like a boxing second , while his record with the company was contested . |
| 16 | Warm scents rose from a honeysuckle hedge at Monboddo , the much-changed home of a man who , according to Sir Walter Scott , went out at night with a candle to inspect his turnips growing in the fields ; who , hating to sit behind a horse 's backside , would not travel in a carriage and therefore — he was in his eighties — rode to London on horseback ; who took a cold bath every day and damaged his children 's health by insisting they did the same ; and who , when in residence at Edinburgh , gave dinner parties at which his wine-flagons were wreathed in garlands of roses . |
| 17 | Never one to sit behind a desk if he could help it , he tried to see the battle front for himself , and was severely wounded . |
| 18 | Very few people ever left the isolation hospital and visitors had to sit behind a glass screen . |
| 19 | And he 's sent me to sit with a boy ! |
| 20 | The müsellim would have no power to interfere with the right of the Serbs to collect taxes and , in cases where Christian subjects were being judged in the courts , the müsellim would have to sit with a Serbian knez . |
| 21 | To sit with a child in your lap and the sun on the wheat |
| 22 | Felipe was able to sit with a perfectly thunderous face knowing that his sister could not see it . |
| 23 | The Coroner who will hold the inquest into the deaths , has agreed to sit with a jury … which relatives and their lawyers claim is vital . |
| 24 | Mary Lovell , who has arranged the meeting , said that as well as fund raising a support group would identify patients in the area , find people willing to sit with a patient at their home to give carers a break , and provide volunteers to drive people to the hospice or generally help at the hospice . |
| 25 | The plaintive cry of the deputy head that ‘ the only way to get a pat on the head around here is to sit under a cow ’ will strike home with staff , children and parents in many primary schools . |
| 26 | I think this system of getting all the children to sit round a table and be taught as a group is wrong , I think they should be taught individually , should have a desk of their own and , and the teacher should stand there and deliver the lesson er to each person but that 's , that 's the way it goes |
| 27 | Walking briskly towards Sloane Square to get some lunch at his club , he said : ‘ In Kenya , I like to sit in a car and watch the world go by . |
| 28 | Whether it 's the Police Band or one from a nearby mill town , there are fewer nicer ways to end a summer day in Leeds than to sit in a deckchair at sunset , listening to the haunting sound of the trumpets and trombones . |
| 29 | He was n't going to sit in a bog to eat his Sunday dinner , was he ? |
| 30 | When the big wigs arrived , however , they were barely acknowledged by a dour receptionist , told to sit in a grubby waiting area strewn with cigarette ends and empty coffee cups , and kept waiting for half an hour without either apology or explanation . |