Example sentences of "he have been sitting on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clint says he has been sitting on the story of Unforgiven for 15 years waiting to grow into the part but denies that this could be the last time he saddles up and rides off into the sunset . |
| 2 | He has been sitting on a nurse 's knee being fed from a small drinking cup . ’ |
| 3 | He 'd been sitting on his fanny for three months now and here was a chance to do something . |
| 4 | He had been sitting on the cart since early morning and all he had to show for scouring the streets was an old tin bath that he had found on some wasteground , a couple of sacks of rags and one or two pieces of old iron . |
| 5 | By the time morning came he was convinced he had been wide awake the whole night , though by that time he had remembered with the utmost clarity that the whole performance had taken place not in a television studio at all but in an enormous public lavatory , with Sir William and Lady Paice among the large crowd around the coffee table , and that his final humiliation was to discover at the end of the programme that he had been sitting on one of the lavatory seats throughout , with his trousers down around his ankles . |
| 6 | When one complainant alleged that he had been sitting in the Common Bench while the complainant had had his proper challenges to jurors refused , the auditors of complaints simply accepted his statement that he had been sitting on the bench not as a justice but as a well-wisher of the complainant 's opponent ( the prior of Sempringham ) . |
| 7 | He slowly straightened to his full height and she realised he had been sitting on the bed leaning over her . |
| 8 | He 's been sitting on the bench for the last hour and has never once taken his eyes off the shop . |