Example sentences of "sit in the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | So for a full week he had sat in the outer office , and waited . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It was the same husky voice that Pascoe had heard when he 'd sat in the empty house at the table laid for one . |
| 6 | 4 As soon as s/he sits in the hot seat , this person must become the chosen character . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A cat sits in the front door obstinately blocking the path of arriving customers . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | His son sits in the National Assembly for Nawa Shariff 's party . |
| 11 | Claire sits in the open window of John 's kitchen , a cup of jasmine tea warming her hands . |
| 12 | Eighteen East German delegates were to sit in the European Parliament pending direct elections . |
| 13 | Her children Peter , 15 , and 11-year-old Zara are expected to sit in the front pew for the short service . |
| 14 | Dana sulked because Roman had thwarted her plan to sit in the front passenger seat , and Claudia , conscious of her twin 's glowering presence , could n't find anything to say . |
| 15 | Stella 's main job was to sit in the prompt corner with the book . |
| 16 | The simplest way to start is to encourage the dog to sit in the required position , even when there is no one at the door . |
| 17 | This 100 ( or such lesser number as existed at any time ) were to elect 28 of their number to sit in the new House . |
| 18 | A government communiqué was also reported to have ruled out the possibility of FARC and ELN delegates being allowed to sit in the new Constituent Assembly to be elected in December . |
| 19 | Do you want ask you to sit in the other chair ? |
| 20 | All peers of England have retained entitlement to sit in the appropriate House of Lords throughout . |
| 21 | There were at most twenty-two Jacobite peers in the House of Lords , ten of whom were Scottish representative peers , who owed their places to the Union of 1707 ( under the terms of which , the Scottish peers as a whole elected sixteen of their number to sit in the upper chamber at Westminster ) . |
| 22 | Rachel asked the patient to sit in the small waiting area then turned as if to go and prepare herself to see to him . |
| 23 | The mother shouted at one of the boys and he went back to sit in the small lorry . |
| 24 | ‘ Some of them seem content to sit in the Royal Box at Wembley and shake hands . |
| 25 | I mean th , the amount of time we have to sit in the blasted garden anyway is er nothing in n it ? |
| 26 | One thinks of someone like Karl Marx who , expelled from continental countries , was allowed into this country to sit in the British Library and write books . |
| 27 | Meanwhile I sit in the spacious bar-restaurant , in this drool parlour , in this fancy vomitorium . |
| 28 | There is a unicameral parliament ( Lagting or Loegting ) and two Faroese representatives sit in the Danish parliament . |
| 29 | There is a unicameral parliament ( Lagting or Loegting ) and two Faroese representatives sit in the Danish parliament . |
| 30 | The two basic amino-terminal α-helices sit in the major groove so that they are perpendicular to one another on opposite sides of the DNA duplex ; they resemble nothing so much as a pair of short chopsticks . |