Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] sit [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is ac I could sit in a different place . |
| 2 | I was lucky that she was in most of my lessons but the lessons that she was n't in I would sit with the other friends from Stonham Aspel . |
| 3 | Sometimes I would sit in the deserted church of San Madin , a small twelfth-century romanesque building just off the Plaza Mayor , on the Plaza Poeta Iglesias . |
| 4 | I can sit outside the little shed and see the church tower of old Hampstead Church . |
| 5 | I can sit in the warm and sip their hot froth of a brew for maybe the best part of an hour with any luck . |
| 6 | I can sit in the smoking section with you ? |
| 7 | She should be the centre of social life abhorred and dominant , and she should sit like a great spider behind the curtains of the Garden Room , spying on her friends , and I knew that her name must be Elizabeth Mapp . |
| 8 | Only the orphan until the final chapter , when even she would sit by a warm fire , rescued at last from a cruel world and adult depredations by the long-lost loving parent who waits at the end of every unhappy child 's rainbow . |
| 9 | She will sit alongside The Roman Catholic Cardinal Hume , the Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey and three other protestant church leaders . |
| 10 | Here you can sit in an arch-lined square , shop for the region 's wonderful food and wine , wander the Saturday market , or perhaps walk up to the medieval hilltop castle and village of Montefioralle where the views stretch forever . |
| 11 | Outside the classrooms there is a sort of portico where you can sit in the open , and at the end of it there is a sort of hamburger and cold drinks stall . |
| 12 | Carpets and cushions would be ordered and we would sit in the hot stillness , our voices quiet , the half-English , half-Arabic clear on the heavy air . |
| 13 | A stout woman , whom Petion had spoken to a moment ago , indicated that they should sit on the scraggy cushions situated around the walls . |
| 14 | He was going to walk her to her other job in the bar , across the Jardin du Luxembourg ; perhaps they 'd sit in the late sunshine , near the thin young naked girl who looked exposed and hence signified Truth , the inscription said . |
| 15 | The role of councillors would be strengthened : they would sit on the local bodies armed with the knowledge of the policies adopted at the centre of the council . |
| 16 | It was a shed hand actually , he did n't , was n't responsible for cash although he helped the cashier and er , I well remember this erm in those days the conductor used to either run into depot with the bus or he 'd get relief on the Cornhill , he walked down to the depot carrying his cash in his cash bag and then he 'd sit in the paying in room and he 'd laboriously cam carried out his cash , piling the pennies into stacks , the ha'pennies , the tokens , the sixpences , every denomination . |
| 17 | On warm afternoons he would sit outside the front door with a Roberts portable radio ( the all-wood construction , I learned , gave better sound quality than the plastic or metal bodies of the transistors I admired ) , listening to the cricket commentary . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He would sit in the drab offices of social workers . |
| 20 | From about this time , or a little later , he was also meditating , according to Du Camp , a novel about the theatre ; he would sit in the green room jotting down the confidences of over-candid actresses . |
| 21 | He would sit by the little fire he had built underneath it , watching the drops of spirit trickle out of the tubes into bottles partially filled with apricot jam . |
| 22 | It would sit for a limited period , probably less than six months , and would take over responsibility for those areas of state operation essential for impartial elections including the security forces , a limited budgetary role , the state-owned media and the conduct of the elections themselves . |