Example sentences of "[vb mod] sit [prep] the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the toss was fair and he misses it , he is out and must sit on the floor in the middle . |
| 2 | Aggie pointed to the seat at the front of the cart , and immediately Millie had done so , she gripped the iron frame of the seat , heaved herself on to the first step , then , almost with a lunge , on to the seat ; but this time she did n't say , as she usually did , ‘ I 'm past this ; I 'll sit on the back in future and you 'll take him , ’ but she jerked the reins and put the pony into a trot . |
| 3 | ‘ You 'll sit in the corner in your club making barbed comments to all who come within your ken . ’ |
| 4 | I 'd sit beside the fire in my room , |
| 5 | And the junior school would sit on the floor in the front and that 's how it used to be arranged . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She would sit in the surgery in the evenings after the patients had gone and carefully shade in the colours . |