Example sentences of "he sit [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He sits across the table from Mrs Thatcher and her team , which can be a mixture of people from the Downing Street Private Office , the Policy Unit and the Cabinet Office , with one or two personal advisers and sometimes a Treasury minister . |
| 2 | Since the quadrupling of the defence budget in 1950–55 , the president 's main source of power has come from the fact that he sits at the head of a great ‘ national security state ’ — to adopt the phrase of Daniel Patrick Moynihan , a Democratic senator . |
| 3 | For example the owner of a motor vehicle can be said to use it where he sits at the side of the driver , who is not his employee and the vehicle is being used for his purpose ( Cobb v Williams [ 1973 ] RTR 1 13 ) . |
| 4 | [ He sits at the table . ] |
| 5 | He sits on the edge of the bed where Kate lies fenced in by bolsters and proffers it smilingly . |
| 6 | He sits on the bed for twenty minutes , sweating and smoking . |
| 7 | Each has a chief executive who , though he sits on the board of nearly 600 directors , is not accountable to the head of the group . |
| 8 | The occupational therapist may supply portable handrails in the early stages after the stroke , so that the patient has some support on each side while he sits on the toilet , although these should not be used to lean on when standing up or sitting down . |
| 9 | The bed height should allow the patient to touch the floor with his feet when he sits on the side on the bed , although his hips should be slightly above the level of his knees . |
| 10 | He sits on the grass |
| 11 | He 's behind the bushes , or he sits in the church itself when it 's cold , and I do n't blame him because it 's been pretty cold the last , you know , few weeks . |
| 12 | He sits in the kitchen all that time . |
| 13 | Try explaining it to Ashley as he sits in the back of the minibus watching the streets of Salzburg slip by for the last time as — filming finished — we begin the journey back home . |
| 14 | And this , the big'un , he sits in the sink . |
| 15 | He sits in the chair |
| 16 | No wonder he sits in the chair and does nothing . |
| 17 | Neither speaks French or German but one has a few words of English , so he sits in the front . |
| 18 | He sits in the House of Lords as a cross-bencher and is active in debates , particularly on environmental issues . |
| 19 | Though he sits by the gate of Shiloh , in his blindness watching the road , he is nearly the last in the town to hear the news . |
| 20 | He sits by the door and I read in my chair , and we 're like two people who 've been married years . |
| 21 | He sits by the hour with three or four words on his typing paper and listens to the noise from the room of a neighbour . |
| 22 | What did he sit in the cold then ? |
| 23 | When he came back he sat beside the litter of his meal on the table among the three children not quite knowing what to do with himself . |
| 24 | ‘ I do n't know , ’ he said as he sat to the table . |
| 25 | He sat to the left of the huge fireplace . |
| 26 | He sat opposite the Colonel . |
| 27 | He sat on the toilet , watching the spray , waiting for the water to warm up , sipping his drink . |
| 28 | Between the noise of the bloody guns and clouds of bloody mosquitoes buzzing around my head , all I 've had for my two hours is more mosquito lumps on my face , and I 'm more tired than ever. , Taff and I chatted while he sat on the floor of the trench smoking his cigarette . |
| 29 | Two or three boys stood round him as he sat on the floor nursing the side of his head where a lump was rising under his probing fingers . |
| 30 | More affectionate is his account of Minton who had , as he records , ‘ been brought along to my flat one evening by Keith Vaughan , where he sat on the floor with a drink in his hand , laughing a great deal and saying very little . |