Example sentences of "sit by the [noun sg] in " in BNC.

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1	In Britain , for these women who live alone with their husbands , this comfort is lacking , the afternoon hour spent lying on a bed chatting with their sisters-in-law , combing and oiling each other 's hair , is replaced by empty hours sitting by the heater in some grey suburb .
2	The old man Kee was sitting by the window in the front room .
3	Donna was sitting by the window in a floral cotton dressing-gown .
4	Her words came back to me as I pictured her sitting by the fire in her tiny croft .
5	The rest of the day followed predictably — Len 's breakfast , seeing him off to work , cleaning the small , semi-detached house they were steadily paying for , looking after the baby , making Len 's evening meal , sitting by the fire in the evening watching the telly , before they went to bed …
6	Injuries in war and disasters provide numerous anecdotes of the anaesthetic effects of shock ; a doctor in the aftermath of London 's Clapham rail crash of 1988 reported having treated several victims lying or sitting by the track in a state of bewilderment and oblivious of serious wounds ; in one case an ankle was completely severed other than for a few shreds of flesh .
7	He was now under continuous oxygen and too weak to take solid foods , but he would sit by the fire in his wheelchair for two hours each day while his wife read , or played music , to him .
8	And she gets up in the night and sits by the telephone in the hall in the dark .
9	A little fat nun had once cried in the heat of Egypt 's afternoon , in the accents of County Cork , that she wished she could take off her flesh and sit by the well in her bones .
10	Sit by the fountain in Cattolica
11	Doone followed us into the kitchen , removed a grey tweed overcoat and sat by the table in his much-lived-in grey suit .
12	An old lady sat by the fire in an armchair of slatted wood and a little boy was pushing a toy lorry on the mat .

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