Example sentences of "sit [prep] the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was sat behind the settee in a corner . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The bloke who sits behind the ship in the chip shop . |
| 4 | The discussion will be led by Professor Frank Lees , of Loughborough University , who was appointed in 1988 as one of the three technical assessors to sit with the judge in the public enquiry into the Piper Alpha disaster . |
| 5 | After delivering my message to him under a plate on his dinner tray she had gone outside to sit under the tree in the warm evening air . |
| 6 | With an enormous effort Alexandra said , with a small smile , ‘ It was better to be artificial than actually to sit in the sea in March . |
| 7 | I think that 's a minor problem but perhaps architects now pay a little more attention to and that is that , in the afternoon when you like to sit in the evening when you like to sit in the garden in the sunshine you are sitting in the shadow because the house er is between the sun and the garden |
| 8 | Mike 's voice , commanding , imperative , had him reluctantly obeying its uncompromising call as he ran lightly back to sit in the car in readiness to leave the pits and take his place on the grid . |
| 9 | I used to pull the blinds , turn out the lights and sit in the dark in terror , thinking , ‘ What am I going to do here ? |
| 10 | If necessary , he would send Sergeant Phyllis Henley , who seemed to understand the ways of the family , to sit outside the door in her car until Peter Fleming either came out or came home . |
| 11 | The person who sits on the dais in Ottawa or Canberra and goes through the motions of opening a Parliament is not and can not be the same being at all as the person who does these things and has done them from time immemorial at Westminster . |
| 12 | He always sits on the floor in front of me . |
| 13 | Mark sits on the floor in the comer , trying not to look . |
| 14 | Sadly their honeymoon was a short one as Killigrew had , so , he sorrowfully informed his new bride , to hasten to Exeter , where he was to sit on the bench in the City 's courts . |
| 15 | Did the Secretary of State read in the memoirs of Dr. Garrett FitzGerald that during the negotiations on the Anglo-Irish Agreement the Government had been prepared to allow judges from the courts in the Irish Republic to sit on the Bench in Northern Ireland as part of what are described as mixed courts , but that that was stopped because of the resistance of then then Lord Chief Justice , Lord Lowry ? |
| 16 | If he/she fails to comply promptly , say , ‘ If you do not do as I asked you immediately you will have to sit on the chair in the hall . ’ |
| 17 | Sit on the floor in the library , look at the books from a child 's level — are they interesting , would you be tempted to take one home if you were a child ? |
| 18 | I go and sit on the bench in front of the Christmas tree and stare at it . |
| 19 | ‘ Orficer , ’ she said , ‘ I sit on the bench in Cisister . |
| 20 | When I got back to the car , the fern was sitting in the boot in its pot looking exceedingly perky , if a fern can look perky . |
| 21 | So , two days on the road and here I am sitting in the sun in a café opposite the , having just eaten and drunk the compulsory croque-monsieur and hot chocolate . |
| 22 | Sitting in the compartment in my dark city suit , working away at the bright knitting caused a lot of second glances from passers-by , but usually ensured I kept the compartment to myself . |
| 23 | Leigh is sitting in the sunshine in Spain , taking a break from filming a new series of his BBC TV drama Kinsey , which goes out next month . |
| 24 | She could cope well enough with him in the office where their point of contact was work , but occasional moments — like last Saturday , sitting in the sunshine in the garden of her flat , and today on the train — had shown her a glimpse of Luke the man , not simply Luke the employer . |
| 25 | There 's an audience of people sitting in the room in front of me , and they 're singing , and they 're in total darkness too . |
| 26 | The next morning I was sitting in the garden in the sun when suddenly I saw young Rupert of Hentzau on horse- back coming through the trees towards me . |
| 27 | If she left him long enough , sitting in the dark in the boathouse and thinking it over , perhaps he would never do anything wrong again . |
| 28 | But I remember after having resigned , sitting in the front in the band 's Commer van — there 'd be the driver , the engine cover and then the passenger seat , and you had to take turns sitting on the engine cover . |
| 29 | Emmie thought her family looked beautiful , sitting round the table in the candlelight . |
| 30 | John was sitting on the floor in a tangle of blankets . |