Example sentences of "[was/were] sit up [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he was not ducking and weaving through the cedar brush with this curious hat on his head , Gould was sitting up at night on the Appletree Flats waiting to ambush a tawny-shouldered podargus or crouching next to a hole in the ground close to Stephen 's garden gate waiting for the appearance of an unfamiliar little mouse . |
| 2 | The previous night she had dreamed she was sitting up in Nathan 's bunk , holding a baby to her breast . |
| 3 | Arty was sitting up in bed , his hair shining from a liberal application of something that looked and smelled like perfumed vaseline and came from a jar labelled Easi-Gro . |
| 4 | ‘ There you are , ’ said Patrick , who was sitting up in bed . |
| 5 | She was sitting up in bed showing off her sunburn . |
| 6 | She was sitting up in bed learning the chant which was to be tested the next day . |
| 7 | She was sitting up in bed , her glasses already adorning her gaunt face and her hair curled up tightly on rollers . |
| 8 | Piggott was sitting up in bed , laughing at reports in American newspapers that his legendary 44-year career is finished . |
| 9 | She was sitting up in bed , and she drank , spluttered , and grinned . |
| 10 | Philpott was sitting up in bed , his face hidden behind a copy of the New York Times . |
| 11 | She was sitting up in bed listening to the radio on the headphones . |
| 12 | The penicillin injected into Julia 's veins four times a day killed the infection inexorably , and within three days the oxygen tent had been removed and she was sitting up in bed waiting for her meals with real hunger . |
| 13 | She was sitting up in bed with a light shawl round her shoulders and a book on her lap , apparently quite composed . |
| 14 | Selina was sitting up in bed when I went through with my drink . |
| 15 | She was sitting up in bed in a profusion of little pillows . |
| 16 | She was sitting up in bed , some few days later , tugging a recalcitrant comb through her long tresses , when a commotion from downstairs made her pause , her fingers still . |
| 17 | Shelley was sitting up in bed , her arms round her knees . |
| 18 | Today , the plucky youngster was sitting up in bed and said to be ‘ improving ’ at Alder Hey Childrens ' Hospital , Liverpool . |