Example sentences of "[noun sg] who had been sitting " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was an elderly gypsy who had been sitting silently all evening , and the voice was as rough as the open road but when it sang the room became quiet . |
| 2 | ‘ Way you go , Patty , ’ he said softly , and the dog was off , hurling herself along the embankment , all paws and flying ears , after a rabbit who had been sitting in a patch of sun but disappeared with contemptuous ease as she came close . |
| 3 | She was the first television celebrity he had met in the flesh , and he still could not quite believe the woman who had been sitting in front of him was the same one he had watched so regularly on the box . |
| 4 | A man who had been sitting silently by on the wooden form got to his feet , his hand outstretched , and he said , ‘ There ! take it ; and if you want to pay it back put it in the voluntary box she was talking about . ’ |
| 5 | Together with Toby Freely , the fresh-faced young man who had been sitting next to Tom Tedder , she brought up , modestly , the rear of the exodus . |
| 6 | He had then been dragged behind the vehicle and held down while the man who had been sitting beside him during the journey drove the car over his legs . |