Example sentences of "he sit [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was one terrible day when she came into his surgery and found him sitting beside the gramophone playing Soldiers of the Queen with tears pouring down his face . |
| 2 | He watched his dejected figure walk past him into the cottage and , after allowing a few minutes to elapse , followed him in and discovered him sitting at the table in the living room , his bag of apples and sandwich lying untouched . |
| 3 | Cowley could see him sitting at the garden table , staring blankly into the distance . |
| 4 | Before the shooting Melrose Spence , a friend of the defendant , saw him sitting on the bonnet of his car , talking to someone in a jeep . |
| 5 | yes , he 's took a photo of him sitting on the bike so you then he just had to pin it up on , on my thingy , and it 'd say , you know , you 'll never have this , it 'll give you something to , to go for . |
| 6 | I found him sitting on the bench to the side of the house gazing out over Backyards . |
| 7 | How would him sitting on the bench give him ‘ coaching experience ’ ? ? |
| 8 | ‘ I remember him sitting by the fire all wrapped up an' coughing . ’ |
| 9 | I would turn my back a second and find him sitting in the sand tray . |
| 10 | She remembered wandering around a boyfriend 's house talking to herself , and then discovering him sitting in the lounge . |
| 11 | He was that one , of course , and the night found him sitting in the back of a purring car being driven around the frosty streets of London in search of somebody to help him finish the story . |
| 12 | Athelstan made him sit on the floor with his back to the wall and , crouching down beside him , told him quietly what he had learnt : how the wood carving being made for the coronation pageant might hold a clue to the killer 's identity . |
| 13 | He sits across the table from Mrs Thatcher and her team , which can be a mixture of people from the Downing Street Private Office , the Policy Unit and the Cabinet Office , with one or two personal advisers and sometimes a Treasury minister . |
| 14 | Since the quadrupling of the defence budget in 1950–55 , the president 's main source of power has come from the fact that he sits at the head of a great ‘ national security state ’ — to adopt the phrase of Daniel Patrick Moynihan , a Democratic senator . |
| 15 | For example the owner of a motor vehicle can be said to use it where he sits at the side of the driver , who is not his employee and the vehicle is being used for his purpose ( Cobb v Williams [ 1973 ] RTR 1 13 ) . |
| 16 | [ He sits at the table . ] |
| 17 | He sits on the edge of the bed where Kate lies fenced in by bolsters and proffers it smilingly . |
| 18 | He sits on the bed for twenty minutes , sweating and smoking . |
| 19 | Each has a chief executive who , though he sits on the board of nearly 600 directors , is not accountable to the head of the group . |
| 20 | The occupational therapist may supply portable handrails in the early stages after the stroke , so that the patient has some support on each side while he sits on the toilet , although these should not be used to lean on when standing up or sitting down . |
| 21 | The bed height should allow the patient to touch the floor with his feet when he sits on the side on the bed , although his hips should be slightly above the level of his knees . |
| 22 | He sits on the grass |
| 23 | He 's behind the bushes , or he sits in the church itself when it 's cold , and I do n't blame him because it 's been pretty cold the last , you know , few weeks . |
| 24 | He sits in the kitchen all that time . |
| 25 | Try explaining it to Ashley as he sits in the back of the minibus watching the streets of Salzburg slip by for the last time as — filming finished — we begin the journey back home . |
| 26 | And this , the big'un , he sits in the sink . |
| 27 | He sits in the chair |
| 28 | No wonder he sits in the chair and does nothing . |
| 29 | Neither speaks French or German but one has a few words of English , so he sits in the front . |
| 30 | He sits in the House of Lords as a cross-bencher and is active in debates , particularly on environmental issues . |