Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] sit [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gordon and I sit at a table as the old snowys sup their milk stouts and get ready to cross the road to the theatre , where several stars of television are about to perform the fabulous musical My Fair Lady . |
| 2 | Perhaps he heard , I do n't know , but he did n't look up and I sat on a stool near the door until it was finished . |
| 3 | I was drinking Monk and Monk was a heavy beer so fuck I gets out of the car and fucking oh fuck , but anyway said to me look I 'll go up , say my name , and I 'll bring you home , I was living with my sister at the time and I sat on a wee low wall , I 'm just the wall , fu fuck I , in the middle of the day , nobody , they were just drinking er Dawn this is way were , it 's fucking maybe twenty five years ago , twenty six and er fuck he sat me on the wall he had to s I could n't see he says to me er fucking I heard a voice , Raymond like this is the exam tonight you 'll have to sit there . |
| 4 | Upstream , through the gorge known as the Wachau , runs one of the prettiest stretches of the river and I sat for a pleasant hour on its embankment watching the swallows skim its waters . |
| 5 | They released me for the day and I sat in a cab desperately trying to keep calm whilst my mind raced through the practicalities of getting Mum back — cancelling the filming , getting the kids looked after for a while if … |
| 6 | A stream flows nearby , bubbling and gurgling , and you sit beneath a large , shady tree . |
| 7 | Bailey gives me instant coffee and a plate of Tesco jam doughnuts , still in their plastic packet , and we sit at a dusty picnic table outside , slapping off flies . |
| 8 | Joe made room for me with the same amount of good grace he might have afforded an enemy invading his castle and we sat for a few minutes without speaking , inspecting the view . |
| 9 | The journey there was uneventful and we sat on a seat in the Market Place to eat our sandwiches . |
| 10 | And we sat about an hour did n't we ? |
| 11 | They had cups of sweet milky tea and they sat at a table . |
| 12 | Inside the bar they descended again into the dining alcove , and they sat at a table by a small-paned window which was back on a level with the path outside . |
| 13 | When arrangements were made in the summer of 1278 to establish two permanent circuits of the general eyre he was one of the justices appointed to the ‘ northern ’ circuit and he sat as a junior justice in every eyre of that circuit down to 1288 . |
| 14 | And he sat for a long time in a melancholy reverie as the ants continued to drift down , thinking of the futility of all endeavour . |
| 15 | At that time of year there were few people about and he sat at a table by himself . |
| 16 | It.starred this kid called Ed Byrnes and he sat in a Ford Thunderbird or Chevrolet and he combed his hair like this , and he said , ‘ Hi-ya chick , howd'ya like to take a three-hundred horse power plunge into the landscape ? ’ |
| 17 | The sundial looks expensive — the metal part was a Christmas present from his brother , and it sits on a piece of balustrade given by a friend . |
| 18 | Sgr A West is smaller ( 2pc ) , its radiation is largely thermal , and it sits within a highly turbulent circumnuclear disk of molecules that extends out to a distance of 7pc from the nucleus . |
| 19 | He looked expectantly at Sarah , but she sat for a few seconds before speaking . |