Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [be] sitting [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Back in 1959 , I had been sitting one day in a Brighton coffee bar aptly named the Thieves ' Kitchen . |
| 2 | She 'd been sitting motionless for over an hour , conducting an inner battle over the need to alert the board of Chester 's about Guy 's perfidy , with the stubborn hope that somehow she might be wrong keeping her glued to the spot , torn with indecision … |
| 3 | She had been sitting still in her seat . |
| 4 | They 'd been sitting still for too long . |
| 5 | When I came out , wearing the least horrid of the shirts he 'd bought for me , he stood up ( he 'd been sitting all the time by the door ) . |
| 6 | She was going on to recall how yesterday she had thought of Vendelin Gajdusek 's being in Prague , when in actual fact , had she known it , he had been sitting right there beside her driving her back to Mariánské Láznë , when he suddenly gave her near heart failure by challenging , out of the blue ‘ I thought you said your name was Fabia ? ’ |
| 7 | He had been sitting all evening in exactly the spot from which the gun had been fired . |