Example sentences of "[vb base] to sit on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They give better support at the edges than a sprung base so they 're a practical choice if you tend to sit on the bed . |
| 2 | Want to sit on the floor mate ? |
| 3 | It has peacocks , which like to sit on the seats when visitors are scarce , a compound with a few docile wild animals in , a small lake , a free-standing part of a Gothic cloister from the ruined abbey of Saint-Sever-de-Rustan which was removed and re-erected here , and , if you can find them among the shrubbery , busts of two French poets , one of whom was born in the town while the other went to school here : the native was the arch Romantic Théophile Gautier , whose bust in the Jar din Massey was sculpted by his exotic daughter Judith , the outsider Jules Laforgue , the strange , consumptive young poet who so influenced T. S. Eliot and died at twenty-seven . |
| 4 | Feeling shaken rigid , she watched him move to sit on the side of the bed when , to her further distress , even while his breathing was ragged , she saw him grab up his shirt and trousers . |
| 5 | At least financial agencies have some pressure to provide funds at competitive rates , and builders to guard against pricing themselves out of the market , but landowners just have to sit on the land until they get the price they demand . |
| 6 | There ai n't no chairs or carpet or nothing , so if I go and see him I have to sit on the floor . |
| 7 | Have to sit on the floor . |
| 8 | It did , however , illustrate how people in Britain often have good ideas for inventions but then have to sit on the sidelines as no one is prepared to back them . |
| 9 | I might be wrong , but I do n't think so , but I have to sit on the fence you see as I get into trouble . |