Example sentences of "sit beside a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A pretty girl and one that should be with a man , not a girl who should have sat beside a solicitor in a High Street divorce court . |
| 2 | Death-beds are not easily mistaken and Mrs Hellyer had sat beside a few . |
| 3 | The building sits beside a river and is surrounded by carefully landscaped lawns — a far cry from the old office above the Uxbridge JS , only a mile down the road . |
| 4 | Another was the ā gri , sitting beside a petal-shaped oil lamp which he replenished as soon as the flame began to dwindle from a bowl on the hearth . |
| 5 | He wrote , sitting beside a swimming pool , with a rum and ginger to hand , whilst Ricky lay in bed with a hangover . |
| 6 | He was a big tall man , with a red face , and was sitting beside a fire with Dr Livesey . |
| 7 | Subsequently , he came across the look on various faces — a mother lifting a baby from a pram , a child running towards its father , a woman sitting beside a hospital bed , lovers by the dozen . |
| 8 | During the first match I was amazed to find myself sitting beside a Church of Ireland minister , a Free Presbyterian Minister and a Roman Catholic priest . |
| 9 | The author Michael Thornton , a family friend , said : ‘ Charles Sweeny was taken ill on 11 March while sitting beside a swimming pool in the summer resort of Bar Harbour , south Maine , which was a favourite place of his . |
| 10 | Climbing aboard , he sat beside a man with three pairs of spectacles around his neck . |
| 11 | Father Poole sat beside a crackling fire , his breviary on his lap , watching . |
| 12 | Reg Butler sat beside a roaring gas log fire , smoking a fat cigar and wondering when he was going to be able to retire , relax , play golf , take in the odd West End show like other successful men of seventy-two . |
| 13 | The women who sat beside a single basket of herbs , or wild mushrooms they had gathered that morning in the dew , high in the hills , were tanned so dark they might have washed in walnut juice . |
| 14 | In this way he has lived in Nazi Germany or sat beside a small girl in Vietnam who gazes into the distance with a fixed stare and cries into the silence with a monotonous , elemental shriek . |
| 15 | A small boy sat beside a home-made wooden cross . |