Example sentences of "sit [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Atlas 's purpose is to sit between the corporate systems and the EDI network , allowing messages to be generated to various standards and in various formats . |
| 2 | Although schools and teachers I visited may not always have been able to produce copies of the official syllabus , everyone had copies of previous years ' questions and were assiduously preparing children to sit for the current examination . |
| 3 | the participants for H Two will have already discovered , we are still tackling part of H One from yesterday , but , and I apologize that you will have to sit through the outstanding items of discussion . |
| 4 | Like most Chinese children unfortunate enough to grow up in the Sixties , Zeng 's education was severely disrupted by the Cultural Revolution , and he had to sit through the shouting matches and brain-washing sessions just as everyone else did . |
| 5 | Self and Citrine frequently had to sit through the same item of business as it made its way through three , or in extreme cases five , formal meetings of different bodies before being finally approved . |
| 6 | He raised the mug to his lips and sipped the hot sugary tea , remembering the day when he had sat for the first time in Mr Corcoran 's office . |
| 7 | On the face of it , the shooting looked like another bloody event in Irish history , but perhaps it was its timing — on the same day that the government had sat for the first time — that intrigued him , or perhaps it was Joe 's words : that his father and the men like him had died for Ireland were being betrayed . |
| 8 | A smaller than usual proportion of members who had sat in the Good Parliament were re-elected to this parliament , but it is hard to find evidence that the government tried to ensure the election of their own supporters . |
| 9 | So for a full week he had sat in the outer office , and waited . |
| 10 | The man who had sat in the front passenger-seat leant down and grabbed the girl 's arm , dragged her through the dirt towards the car and pushed her in . |
| 11 | He may not , however , have sat in the final term as he was under sentence of excommunication , possibly for his part in the battle of Lewes . |
| 12 | They might have sat in the same prison cell as he was sitting in now . |
| 13 | It was the same husky voice that Pascoe had heard when he 'd sat in the empty house at the table laid for one . |
| 14 | She 'd sat on the stubby grass , cut short as the back of a soldier 's head . |
| 15 | Attlee and Ernest Bevin , the Foreign Secretary , had sat on the key Coalition Cabinet committees on post-war reconstruction at home and overseas . |
| 16 | There may be a booklet on the subject , a special expert in the technical department who has sat on the relevant government fact-finding commission or a market research survey giving the latest market trends , any of which would help the journalists far more than the standard handouts . |
| 17 | ‘ Once she was a hit , we could have sat on the first contract and made more money from her . |
| 18 | I could n't kick a door if I was sat on the bloody latch so I had to do something else . ’ |
| 19 | In the past he has sat on the central committee and was chairman of the London branch . |
| 20 | So for the past year , I 've sat on the Labour Party Trade Union Review Group , a working party set up in the heat of an election defeat , to defuse a potentially damaging row about the strange phenomenon in the party of Labour . |
| 21 | No shrewder opportunist had sat on the English throne , but his opportunism was harnessed to some guiding principles . |
| 22 | The number of journalists who claim to have sat on the same sofa and had private speech with His Majesty is legion . |
| 23 | I have sat on the opposite bank of a river to where a match was being fished and seen barbel breaking line time after time , and the reaction has always been the same : the tying on of a hook of the same size to the same line that barbel had already treated with the contempt it deserved . |
| 24 | ‘ I was in this lesson and two or three of my mates were messing about , and I was sat across the other side of the classroom and someone chucked a piece of chalk at the teacher and then started shouting his mouth off . |
| 25 | Her mother had sat at the crowded dinner table , drinking steadily and smoking and speculating aloud on why her daughter had married costive Brian . |
| 26 | Sit opposite the other person ( rather than beside them ) . |
| 27 | An engine cowl flap sits below the rear edge of the lower cowlings and is opened as required , but normally sits level with the fuselage in flight . |
| 28 | They had n't negotiated any furniture to get to the far side of the room and sit against the opposite wall and she had the impression , either because of that or because of the resonance of voices , that the room was empty . |
| 29 | Mount the drive so that its front panel sits behind the front panel of the computer . |
| 30 | She spent time shelling boiled chestnuts to sit amongst the traditional sprouts . |