Example sentences of "[noun sg] sit [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Left : All five of the brightly coloured villages in Disney 's Caribbean Beach Resort sit on the edge of a huge lake , with beautiful sandy white beaches . |
| 2 | If there is an incongruous response sit in the light to assist lip reading , and repeat the question more slowly and loudly , facing the client , but without shouting or exaggeration . |
| 3 | The gap was about a foot and a half wide — wide enough for Sigarup to sit in the basket with his legs hanging down below . |
| 4 | What should Mr Major and the first media mogul to sit in the Cabinet , David Mellor , do ? |
| 5 | There are skylarks and foxes and an owl sits in the apple tree staring at us by the fire in winter . |
| 6 | A gilt harp sits in the bay window of the sitting room . |
| 7 | The male sits on the nest , but at the moment he appears to be out getting a meal . |
| 8 | They went down to Birmingham , and while the er , two chairmen negotiated in the dining room , over a , an extremely affluent lunch , Danny Blanchflower was em , pushed into the kitchen to sit with the servants , if you like . |
| 9 | It was emotionally captivating to see a truck laden with consumer goods draw up at Tazarbu , to hear the driver announce that he had a new poem from Muhammad Dabub in Ajdabiya , and to see shopkeepers , customers and driver sit in the shade to listen to the poem . |
| 10 | Helen Martin , our chairperson said , ‘ The Heatfest weekend was so important to us as tenants because for the very first time , the people who live in the damp houses got the opportunity to sit round the table with the people who in the past were responsible for creating the kinds of conditions that we are now forced to live in and we could say , hey look ! |
| 11 | LIFESPAN always gives an immediate response to a user interaction , but not all the options are handled while the user sits at the terminal . |
| 12 | Monie , whose side sit at the top of Division One , revealed : ‘ We 've never been at the top so early . |
| 13 | Yet Mrs Molina becomes the first Latino to sit on the county 's governing board since 1872 — and the first woman ever . |
| 14 | Between the depth and master volume is the manual switch for the chorus , while the ‘ effect on ’ light sits between the rate and depth pots . |
| 15 | Salt and pepper sit on the tables in old jam-jars : ‘ The biggest containers possible and they still get nicked , ’ says Mr Poole . |
| 16 | Selma sits in the shade of her house , enjoying a day 's holiday because her employers are away . |
| 17 | Another , indeterminate — but male — figure sits at the foot of a street lamp , among bollards near Le Sueur 's equestrian statue of Charles I. To the left of the sculptured pedestal of the statue is the afterimage of a third figure — silhouetted against the awning of a shop : the transparent hat , head and shoulders of another cab-driver . |
| 18 | And so er , they changed hats , when they get there , and the chauffeur 's introduced a as the professor , goes on the platform , and of course the professor sits at the back of the room with the chauffeur 's hat . |
| 19 | Yellow sits on the fence between the powerful punches of red and true-blue ; curiously , green ties are often associated with failure . |
| 20 | Anya sits in the passenger seat , arms folded across her chest , making a pretty poor job of concealing her impatience . |
| 21 | The Captain tried to slide the back window down as unobtrusively as possible when the young Sub-lieutenant sitting beside the driver began to choke . |
| 22 | It is here that Bartimaeus , a blind beggar sitting by the side of the road , cried out to be cured of his blindness . |
| 23 | ‘ More sort of the peace force sitting outside the perimeter wire singing folk songs and eating yoghurt . |
| 24 | The pictures are identical except in three respects : the presence or absence of a teddy bear sitting on the chair , a difference in the pattern on the counterpane , a difference in the position of a mirror . |
| 25 | A man goes in the pub , there 's a bear sitting in the corner . |
| 26 | What you have to steal : If you have an expensive car sitting in the driveway , or inadvertently let slip in the pub about your latest classy hi-fi , you could be drawing attention to your house as being potentially worth breaking into . |
| 27 | The open-backed cabinet is sturdily built ( as is usual for Fender ) , with the Accutronics reverb tray sitting in the bottom . |
| 28 | MPs were debating Maastricht again in the Commons last night after yesterday 's 22-hour sitting on the treaty ratification bill . |
| 29 | Every lake has its kelpie or water-horse , often seen by the shepherd sitting upon the brow of a rock , dashing along the surface of the deep or browsing upon the pasture or its verge . |
| 30 | Ace inched along the lip of metal beside the stanchion and found the Dalek Killer sitting at the end of the girder , his legs dangling over the drop . |