Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] sitting [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wang Sau-leyan was sitting in the far corner of the room , turning the gift the Ping Tiao had given him in his hands , studying it . |
| 2 | When I got back to the car , the fern was sitting in the boot in its pot looking exceedingly perky , if a fern can look perky . |
| 3 | ‘ Inside , a boy was sitting by the fire . |
| 4 | Griselda was sitting in the queen 's place in the middle of the mantlepiece . |
| 5 | Then , running her eyes along the row of plane trees , she suddenly noticed , for the first time , that a medium-sized dragon was sitting in the upper branches of a particularly fine plane tree and munching a green leaf . |
| 6 | The nearest Rocastle has come to the Leeds team was sitting on the bench during last Sunday 's 1-1 draw with Aston Villa . |
| 7 | Grandma was sitting by the fire with a big pile of wool . |
| 8 | The teacher was sitting at the pastry table with several children . |
| 9 | The tourist was sitting in the middle . |
| 10 | Her husband was sitting by the fire . |
| 11 | Turning after 50 feet I saw my wife was sitting in the snow and weeping . |
| 12 | We were sitting in Sandy Row yesterday night was sitting in the car , do you know who he was the spit of ? |
| 13 | One evening Atkins and his colleague were sitting at the factory exit . |
| 14 | Chrissie was sitting on the bed , the baby 's head resting sideways on her shoulder , a bottle of Infant Suspension beside her . |
| 15 | Peach was sitting on the window sill , watching the raindrops run down the outside of the glass and trying to catch them with his paw . |
| 16 | Also the dog was sitting on the carpet on Carla 's bare feet . |
| 17 | A caricature of a dog was sitting on the lawn in front of one of the town houses as he passed , and it laid its head on its paws and looked at him with dark eyes . |
| 18 | The old robber was sitting on the bed , whispering to himself , his face more like a trapped animal 's than a human 's . |
| 19 | Porsche Cars North America says the woman was sitting in the car with a friend when her ex-husband opened fire . |
| 20 | A man was sitting on the ground outside his house . |
| 21 | A man was sitting on the ice , and near him was a broken sledge . |
| 22 | The blind man was sitting near the neglected fire in the dark room . |
| 23 | yeah , well let me just read you two or three verses from Exodus , chapter forty , this is what it says then the cloud covered the tent of meeting and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle and Moses was not able to enter the tent of meeting because the cloud had settled on it and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle and throughout all their journeys whenever the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle the sons of Israel would set out , but if the cloud was not taken up then they did not set out until the day that it was taken up , for throughout all their journeys the cloud of the Lord was on the tabernacle by day and there was fire in it by night , in the sight of all the house in Israel and if you were to turn over to kings you 've got a , you 've got a similar thing there with the dedication of the temple and as Be Ben was saying the power really it 's the it 's the presence of God , the shine , the glory , that cloud of , and so what , what , what catches the Lord Jesus up is really the glory of God here he is , the , the riseness , the glorified Christ being called up into heaven in the , in the glory , what he 's been glorified , so he withdraws his physical , physical presence from one place here on earth to present there on the throne and yet by the holy spirit to be every where now Jesus then , he did n't cease to be truly man at either his resurrection or at his ascension , he stays man , God , the God man all the way through and it 's still true today he is the God man today and that 's important for you and me , think of the very worse experience that you have ever had in your life , think of the very worse experience that could happen to you , with the exception of you know that of , of say total failure of some awful sin , the worse thing , maybe a loss of someone dear to you , someone very close to you , er , er , a bereavement , the most awful experience you have had well he has gone through , he has known that experience , he has , has tempted in all points like as we are he knows our frame , he remembers were dust and he has been there and it is a man who has experienced those same experiences that you and I experience day by day , year after year , it is a man who has gone that , who has walked that path , who is in heaven interceding and praying for us , we 'll stop there cos time has gone erm we 'll stop there , we wo n't go on otherwise I 'll get into trouble During this past month some of the questions in the New Testament , the first one we looked at you remember was that question that Jesus asked of his disciples , do you believe that I am able to do this , then we looked at a question which the disciples asked of Jesus , why could we not cast it out last week we looked at another question , are only a few people going to be saved and this morning I 'd like us it 's the final one of these questions not that there are n't other questions in the New Testament and scores , scores of others but were just looking at four er throughout this month , I 'd like us to look this morning for one at , for a few minutes , at one that Jesus asked of a man who confronted him , I 'd like to read a few verses from Luke chapter eighteen , Luke chapter eighteen I 'm gon na read from verse thirty five , it 's the well known account of blind Bartimaeus , Luke chapter eighteen and verse thirty five and he came about that as Jesus was approaching Jericho a certain blind man was sitting by the road begging , now hearing a multitude going by he began to inquire |
| 24 | AT THE recent European soccer championships in Sweden a quiet black man was sitting in the airport lounge when a group of Scottish fans came in with their wives . |
| 25 | Alice had thought that a white-haired man was sitting in the chair next to her . |
| 26 | The man was sitting behind the single wooden desk that was , in addition to three chairs , the only furniture in the room . |
| 27 | The boxing was still on , his wife was in the kitchen and his daughter was sitting in the sofa , reading a magazine . |
| 28 | Buddie was sitting by the fire . |
| 29 | She and her sister were sitting under the trees . |
| 30 | A rat was sitting at the top of the companion . |