Example sentences of "sit [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he 'd sit for a while , occasionally glancing at the figure next to him , until at last he 'd lean towards the other 's ear . |
| 2 | Ranald , lad , I must sit for a while . ’ |
| 3 | Would you wan na , would you wan na sit for a bit before he goes back ? |
| 4 | He was educated at Eton and Trinity College , Cambridge , where he did not sit for a degree . |
| 5 | He put forward in mid-September a peace proposal envisaging the creation of an interim legislative assembly , which would sit for a year pending elections . |
| 6 | I 'm aching to run , but make myself sit for a second while she watches me through the black circles . |
| 7 | Look , can I sit for a moment ? |
| 8 | Ducks swam about on the lake , beside which we would sometimes sit of a summer evening after supper , before going back on duty . |
| 9 | Your ‘ interviewer ’ should sit behind a desk or table so that you can get the feel of approaching someone in a ‘ dominant ’ situation . |
| 10 | No poker player will sit with a man at his back or show his hand , but nor will a poker player have a cocky attitude to the game . |
| 11 | I 'd sit with a Coke and some crisps and watch him drink . |
| 12 | Intel Corp , General Instrument Corp and Microsoft Corp are preparing to announce , any day now , a joint venture to develop a personal computer that will sit atop a cable television set to provide access to and control of interactive services offered via cable , the New York Times reports . |
| 13 | A ‘ high-profile ’ specialist may sit alongside a pupil with special needs , providing direct assistance and support in participating in activities being followed by the rest of the class . |
| 14 | Today he would sit in a think-tank , cosseted by secretaries and flattered by a stream of calls from talk-show producers . |
| 15 | The sa the same applies for pricing virtually to anything else if if you 're going to take the maximum advantage of flying by air you either have to book it well in advance through a package or whatever or whatever or else you 'd have to go along and sit in a bucket shop hoping that somebody 's gon na |
| 16 | We could all sit in a row behind your big table ; impress the gravity of the situation upon him . ’ |
| 17 | I rarely made a comment on what someone was wearing ; we would sit in a park or café or at home discussing image , beauty , fashion and advertising , and skirt around the more obvious , immediate issues of how we both looked , how we were dressed . |
| 18 | When I was n't in the park , I was cataloguing the host of visitors to the weeping willow tree on our front lawn — just about everything that would sit in a tree came there , mostly blackbirds , sparrows and pigeons , but the ducks loved the shelter of the drooping branches . |
| 19 | ‘ He can sit in a bar and pick up sailors and have a wonderful time . |
| 20 | We could sit in a meeting in the Sit(uation) Room and be discussing these other activities , and fall into almost a kind of , you know , warp in which you would n't know whether you were talking — I mean , the use of shorthand and so forth in the discussions you could n't tell whether we 'd suddenly slipped into this question of selling arms to get them back this way or whether we were still discussing the other thing . |
| 21 | Feeling very daring , I would sit in a circle with them on the grass in Powis Square , and pretend to drink deeply as the cider or barley wine bottle passed around . |
| 22 | ‘ He can sit in a dug out watching our A team as comfortably as he can sit in London , not being involved for five days . ’ |
| 23 | Alina mostly took her breaks alone ; she 'd sit in a corner with a magazine , usually one of Adele 's old wildlife partworks , and be about as obtrusive as a church mouse until her time was over . |
| 24 | And , we also face with a a certain stance there where if people blame , er , turn round to us and say there 's a draft here because er , the air conditioning 's working they do n't wan na sit in a draft . |
| 25 | The fact he can sit in a room with someone who claims to see the spirits of his loved ones around him brings great comfort , not fright . |
| 26 | She was unable to stand up , but could sit in a chair without losing her balance . |
| 27 | ‘ Do n't sit there ’ they chorus at an unfortunate guest foolish enough to try and sit in a chair in the drawing-room which was last used by Queen Victoria . |
| 28 | if Vicki was out or er at the side of Vicki when Vick when we had these she was ages before she 'd go and sit in a chair on her own |
| 29 | Perhaps he will sit in a class with students five years older than he is . |
| 30 | At the Huntingdonshire Eyre in 1255 , for example , Norman Sampson , a riding forester , was convicted of having extorted money from a man in his bailiwick by making him sit upon a harrow . |