Example sentences of "sit in [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ANY Scot who has ever sat in a drafty hall , feeling a mounting sense of doom while staring blankly at an exam paper has probably cursed Edinburgh-based Pillans & Wilson for collaborating in their misery by printing the question papers . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | So for a full week he had sat in the outer office , and waited . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It was the same husky voice that Pascoe had heard when he 'd sat in the empty house at the table laid for one . |
| 7 | Throughout the meeting he has been observing one student , possibly in his thirties , who sits in a long wheelchair with his legs straight , parallel with the floor . |
| 8 | Now , the elderly man who endured a waiter 's dirty fingers in his lemonade at Montrose could hardly have been more famous or respected , and there he sits in a dirty inn , happy to enjoy a little quiet , and quite at ease to do so , even in the company of one of the most garrulous men in the realm whose nature abhorred a conversational vacuum ; Johnson even expressed a simple delight in being thought as silent as a ghost . |
| 9 | Most 486 processors are seated on a 168 or 169-pin PGA socket , whereas the Dell sits in a 238-pin socket . |
| 10 | Encased in gold and encrusted with gems , the saint sits in a hieratic posture with staring eyes , looking every inch an oriental potentate . |
| 11 | If a large predatory bird sits in a conspicuous position it may find itself being mobbed by smaller birds , which call , display , and even attempt to dive-bomb it with pecking attacks . |
| 12 | I leap off my spot and down into the cabin where it sits in a predominant place . |
| 13 | The kind who sits in a little island in the middle of a highly polished marble floor , looking gorgeous and untouchable , but … ’ |
| 14 | But Krauss suggests that we know very well what sculpture is : it is a historically bounded category , with its own set of rules , which are not open to very much change : its internal logic is that of the monument , a commemorative representation , which sits in a particular place and ‘ speaks in a symbolic tongue about the meaning or use of that place ’ . |
| 15 | god sits in a spinning wheel of light . |
| 16 | Johnny sits in a quiet corner of the pub with the Echo crossword and a rum and black . |
| 17 | She sits in a soft curve at her easel , gently swabbing away three centuries from a grumpy London sky . |
| 18 | 4 As soon as s/he sits in the hot seat , this person must become the chosen character . |
| 19 | erm But he seems to have played things rather cool later on , he disappears at the beginning of the war but comes back into Oxford , and then later , actually sits in the Royalist Parliament , 1644 , which he certainly would n't have done if he was still on parliament 's side . |
| 20 | A cat sits in the front door obstinately blocking the path of arriving customers . |
| 21 | Intensive NMR studies in collaboration with Kurt Wüthrich have led Walter Gehring ( Biozentrum , Basel ) to conclude that the DNA binding specificity of the homeobox genes he discovered ( which are transcription factors specifying segmental identity in metazoans from insects to humans ) is determined not only by the ‘ recognition helix ’ that sits in the major groove of the DNA , but also by a flexible segment at the amino-terminal end of the homeobox which appears to wrap around the DNA so as to contact the minor groove . |
| 22 | His son sits in the National Assembly for Nawa Shariff 's party . |
| 23 | Claire sits in the open window of John 's kitchen , a cup of jasmine tea warming her hands . |
| 24 | It is left with one unused electron that sits in an isolated energy level in the middle of the energy gap . |
| 25 | When the big wigs arrived , however , they were barely acknowledged by a dour receptionist , told to sit in a grubby waiting area strewn with cigarette ends and empty coffee cups , and kept waiting for half an hour without either apology or explanation . |
| 26 | To sit in a plush cinema with Anna , Mama and Konstantin on the first night , watching the titles unroll ! |
| 27 | We obeyed and went in to sit in a sombre half-circle round the fire . |
| 28 | They also have broad noses and sideways facing nostrils , and tend to sit in a hunched position when at rest . |
| 29 | Eighteen East German delegates were to sit in the European Parliament pending direct elections . |
| 30 | Her children Peter , 15 , and 11-year-old Zara are expected to sit in the front pew for the short service . |