Example sentences of "sit [prep] the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was sat behind the settee in a corner . |
| 2 | I have not sat in the back of a British police car , marked or unmarked , for twelve years . |
| 3 | Lisabeth agreed with my navigating for once , but then she and Fenella were sat in the back like Royalty , ready to wave to the crowds , the deserted Houses of Parliament and so on . |
| 4 | He had sat in the store-room behind the shop here and told her how someone in the club had sung a song that recalled his Nelly to him . |
| 5 | Her ultimate choice was surprising , for Philippe Le Bas was the son of a man who had sat in the Convention of 1793 and who had never renounced the republican ethos in which his father had brought him up . |
| 6 | She saw him on the morning they had sat in the sun outside the cottage door . |
| 7 | The muffled men with the lanterns lighted their way into the house up a vast perron , where once guests had sat in the sun before luncheon , and on into the hall , music belching into its emptiness . |
| 8 | We were sat in the sun by the river watching these huge trout swimming by and Alain said : ‘ This is crazy . |
| 9 | At last people were going to see the real Dorothy , the real live woman behind that starchy old madam who 'd sat in the corner for all those years , hiding from the world in general . |
| 10 | Course , I 'm sat in the office like this , and they 're all sitting down to their lovely fo five course meal and of course great ! |
| 11 | And then they had sat in the line of cafés and restaurants on the northern side of the cockle-shaped square , behind the fountain carved with women and wolves and dragons , opposite the tall , pink bell-tower . |
| 12 | And again we talked last week about the use of colour in photographs in brochures and things , if you like , to reinforce the sunshine element when you 're sat in the snow in the winter watching Wish You Were Here or one of the holiday programmes . |
| 13 | I had to go upstairs and take the uniform off to brush it , as otherwise it would have been deduced that I had sat in the chair of a gentleman . |
| 14 | At some time or another most of us will have sat beside the shore of a loch when there 's complete calm and not a breath of air . |
| 15 | Overall the unit worked very well but the initial feeling that it looked really smart slowly evaporated once it had sat on the desk for an hour or two . |
| 16 | It was from the vantage point of the Master 's Lodge , a family place , that Thomson , cheerful and generous , made his most distinctive contribution to university affairs , although he had already been active since the 1930s in adult education , as both a part-time tutor and a committee member , and from 1950 to 1958 he had sat on the council of the senate . |
| 17 | Myles had sat on the edge of the chair with his hands clasped between his knees , listening to the legal measured tones , telling himself , I 'm not going to get it , I 'm not going to get it . |
| 18 | Sometimes , when she had been to a romantic film , or had been kissed good-night by Pogo , she had sat on the edge of her bed , staring at that dark , handsome , boy 's face and tried to conjure up the memory of his living presence . |
| 19 | At last a pick-up truck came bumping up the track , containing Giovanna 's fat and apparently unsatisfactory husband and a detachment of villagers , including the old men , Molly was sure , who had sat on the wall by the petrol pumps mocking her . |
| 20 | They were all sat on the floor of one of the sparsely-furnished bedrooms , the curtains drawn , watching East Enders on a black-and-white telly , and they were eating Greek yoghurt out of a communal family-sized Sainsbury 's tub . |
| 21 | Mrs Reveley said : ‘ Nobody else has ever sat on the horse over jumps . |
| 22 | For too long we have sat on the fence regarding when a lone rescuer should leave a collapsed victim to seek medical help . |
| 23 | He was n't about to tell the Yank that he 'd also been duped , that he 'd sat on the information for nearly twenty-four hours . |
| 24 | Swear when he was sat at the top of the stairs shivering he looked so thin . |
| 25 | He remembered all the nights when his sisters had sat at the end of his bed and sobbed their hearts out over some man . |
| 26 | Subsequently the student 's study is devoted to Chemistry , on which written examinations are sat at the end of the third year . |
| 27 | This was the first time Minton had sat at the wheel throughout the entire journey and his ineptitude was such that , after repeated jolts and much stalling , Norman saw they would get nowhere unless he took over . |
| 28 | Many are the times me wife and I have sat at the table with a large sheet of graph paper and worked it all out , only to find that either my ruler 's idea of an inch does n't tally with the real thing , or the width of a pencil line on the plan actually equates to a foot in real life . |
| 29 | After we had sat by the track for two hours the train came in . |
| 30 | Read the manufacturer 's descriptions carefully , for some of the smaller pools are really rock pools which are intended to sit near the summit of a rock garden so that water tumbles down a cascade unit into a pool below . |