Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] was sitting [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Otherwise it tends to make the whole picture , like , I went to er er one club once and there was a very nice portrait , not unlike this , there was a girl sitting on a stool , rather less clothes on than this girl has got and it was very nicely done except she was sitting on a painted stool and all the paint was chipped and that to me looked really tacky ! |
| 2 | And when the great beast stopped to answer a call of nature , I felt as if I was sitting astride Mount Pinatubo . |
| 3 | I think they spoke to each other but I did n't get a good look until I was sitting in Armstrong with the engine running . |
| 4 | No , you did n't put any money anywhere , cos I was sitting over there |
| 5 | For one thing , I thought I had cleared the nest recently , and that if she was sitting on anything at all , her clutch could not number more than two or three eggs . |
| 6 | I lifted Harry until he was sitting on the walkway and then , still gripping him tightly , wriggled up beside him so that we were both sitting there with our heads wholly above water , which may not sound a great advance but which was probably the difference between life and death . |
| 7 | Walking to the far end of the cells passage , he lowered himself to the floor until he was sitting with his back to the wall facing the door with its broken lock hanging askew . |
| 8 | The carer then holds him in the same way as if he was sitting on the side of the bed , with his head resting on her shoulder , and lifts him up and round onto the second chair . |
| 9 | I 'd think twice about levelling those jarges at Jake Burns if he was sitting in the same room as me but seeing as he 's on a car phone whizzing up London 's Tottenham Court Road , what the heck ! |
| 10 | Wycliffe , in the big black leather armchair by the empty grate , wondered if he was sitting in the old man 's chair . |
| 11 | Cos he was sitting outside Sally 's doing his book work |
| 12 | And I used this line but it did n't sound so effective because I was sitting on a bicycle . |
| 13 | And we when we came of age puberty I was frightened to death me because I was sitting on the bea we were playing on the beach still a child of twelve cos we still went about with little socks on at twelve in them days . |
| 14 | He was embarrassed , she knew , because she was sitting at old Eddy Moulton 's desk , upon the top of which poor old Eddy had so recently laid down his head and died . |
| 15 | That was n't difficult , because he was sitting in the middle of the largest and noisiest group in the room — also they were the only ones speaking English . |
| 16 | ‘ They sent me out to do a match report and while I was sitting at a desk typing it up , Captain Bob appeared in the office , attracted by the presence of television cameras . |
| 17 | while I was sitting from here I could erm see it had something stuck on it . |
| 18 | Unbeknown to me , she made some enquiries , and then one Friday , while I was sitting in the coffee shop having a quiet read of a newspaper someone had left , she appeared by my side . |
| 19 | It 's only a few days since I was sitting in the seats you all occupy , realising the difficult job that a Lord Mayor has to undertake in keeping members in order . |
| 20 | The memories are probably combined due to the fact that she watched the SS Great Britain being towed into harbour while she was sitting on the loo . |
| 21 | All birds are very temperamental and finicky with their food at the best of times , so I started by slipping titbits of chick under her feet while she was sitting on the glove . |
| 22 | At first I gave her oral sex while she was sitting in an armchair and then we had full sex with a condom . |
| 23 | ‘ We ca n't work out how he could have killed his wife while he was sitting at the opposite end of the table , ’ said Constable Bewman näively . |
| 24 | It was as if the hawk could hear the rabbit running along the tunnels inside the hedge , while he was sitting on a post on top of the hedge . |
| 25 | When I was sitting at dinner on the terrace . |
| 26 | " It never occurred to me till yesterday , Mr Feather , when I was sitting on the seat and she smiled at me . |
| 27 | er better support and better advice for schools , but I agree entirely with what says , it 's no good having the best advice in the world if we ca n't deliver the er , er , the , the recommendations and one of the things that er has been borne in , on me , when I was sitting on the panel looking at special educational needs that the early identification of the early intervention when there are difficulties which start to arise in schools can save you a lot of money later on and unless the schools have the resources to er , er to meet with the er recommendations which are being made on particular children , then we are asking for trouble there , so that I 'm very concerned about the fact that er , the like , like the early one which was er increase that er provision . |
| 28 | There was one occasion when I was sitting in the kitchen and I heard the front door close , and then footsteps in the hall . |
| 29 | When I was sitting in that corridor there was one of the tutors on the phone , only for a short while |
| 30 | When I was sitting by the pool on holiday , I met a four-year-old girl called Amy . |