Example sentences of "he [modal v] sit [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Spot of bother ? ’ he enquired jauntily as Tweed indicated he should sit in the chair beside his desk . |
| 2 | He is wondering how long he must sit in the chair . |
| 3 | He 'll sit on the back of it and I ca n't get up ! |
| 4 | he 'll sit in the corner , you , you know , he 'll take the Mick out of you , you can guarantee it , I mean he 's |
| 5 | He angled his chair so that he could sit by the fire and watch her . |
| 6 | his beard and everything to a T. He 'd sit at the top of the table , have his stiff white serviette tucked into his waistcoat , and he 's lifted that carving knife and fork until — you sat there and you never said a word . |
| 7 | It was a shed hand actually , he did n't , was n't responsible for cash although he helped the cashier and er , I well remember this erm in those days the conductor used to either run into depot with the bus or he 'd get relief on the Cornhill , he walked down to the depot carrying his cash in his cash bag and then he 'd sit in the paying in room and he 'd laboriously cam carried out his cash , piling the pennies into stacks , the ha'pennies , the tokens , the sixpences , every denomination . |
| 8 | Her husband only had one leg , and he used to sit in the corner all the time and wave his stick at you if he thought you were pinching anything . |
| 9 | ‘ He used to sit in the garden and go to sleep or drink hundreds of cups of tea . |
| 10 | On warm afternoons he would sit outside the front door with a Roberts portable radio ( the all-wood construction , I learned , gave better sound quality than the plastic or metal bodies of the transistors I admired ) , listening to the cricket commentary . |
| 11 | He would sit at the head of the long table , the various amounts were packed in white paper with the name of the recipient on each . |
| 12 | When the kitchen was clean and the children put to bed , Beth and David would go to the sitting room , where he would sit at the circular table , head bent over documents and rent books . |
| 13 | Their king is Aillen mac Midha , and in the past he would sit at the foot of the Palace ramparts , slender and blue-green , and with the chill faery blood of all the sidh in his veins . |
| 14 | At that point in his life , he would sit at the door of a club when he was playing and he would glare at the people who came in . |
| 15 | During the session Sir John May , the inquiry chairman , announced that he would sit at the inquiry with three lay assessors , and that the government had agreed to the granting of immunity from prosecution to witnesses . |
| 16 | Taking a carpet needle or a dentist 's pick he would sit on the stones for hours at a time prising small fossils from particles of rock he instinctively knew concealed them . |
| 17 | When he came out , he thought , he would sit in the driver 's seat and allow himself a daydream . |
| 18 | His intention was to water both horses and while they had their nose-bags of oats , he would sit in the shade with his allowance and a bottle of cold tea . |
| 19 | From about this time , or a little later , he was also meditating , according to Du Camp , a novel about the theatre ; he would sit in the green room jotting down the confidences of over-candid actresses . |
| 20 | He would sit in the drab offices of social workers . |
| 21 | Father used to do that , he would sit in the evening then and he had to scratch on this b it was a like a tin plate with a black sort of area to scratch |
| 22 | He would sit by the little fire he had built underneath it , watching the drops of spirit trickle out of the tubes into bottles partially filled with apricot jam . |
| 23 | He was now under continuous oxygen and too weak to take solid foods , but he would sit by the fire in his wheelchair for two hours each day while his wife read , or played music , to him . |
| 24 | For hours he would sit by the window , and look out on the empty , Sunday street , as the church bells tolled dismally from different points in the town . |
| 25 | More likely , he will sit on the cash until a good chance turns up . |