Example sentences of "the [noun sg] sit on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The male sits on the nest , but at the moment he appears to be out getting a meal . |
| 2 | The neckplate sits on the instrument 's chamfered heel , the chamfering helping the player to access upper-register notes . |
| 3 | ‘ What the hell has Marissa got to do with any of this ? ’ he demanded brusquely , frowning down at the flushed cheeks of the girl sitting on the sofa . |
| 4 | Ann , the caretaker sitting on the arm of one of the chairs with her pale blue nylon tabard on , cosily sipped tea . |
| 5 | while , of course , the cat sat on the mat . |
| 6 | ‘ CT ST N T MT , ’ will soon be exposed by crossword buffs as ‘ The cat sat on the mat , ’ but place names are not so easily guessed by context . |
| 7 | If the foregoing suggests the activity of experienced adult readers , let us look at that most basic , apparently neutral , and certainly most mundane , of sentences : ‘ The cat sat on the mat ’ . |
| 8 | Thus , the meaning of The cat sat on the mat is ‘ the ’ + ‘ cat ’ + ‘ sat ’ + ‘ on ’ + ‘ the ’ + ‘ mat ’ , combined in the ways signalled by the syntactic structure , which tells us , for instance , that ‘ on ’ goes with ‘ the mat ’ , rather than with ‘ the cat ’ , and so on . |
| 9 | Thus on the mat is a semantic constituent of the cat sat on the mat , but not a minimal one , as it ultimately divides further into the , on and mat ; the latter , on the other hand , are incapable of further subdivision , and are therefore minimal semantic constituents . |
| 10 | Suppose we take our previous sentence The cat sat on the mat and substitute for one of its constituent parts , cat , a different , but syntactically identical , element such as dog . |
| 11 | This test precisely locates the form responsible for a given meaning , and at the same time ensures that its role is that of a semantic constituent ; from 6 we can therefore conclude that cat is a semantic constituent of The cat sat on the mat . |
| 12 | The result is certainly a change of meaning : The cat sat on the moss ; but in this case it is impossible to find a different sentence in which the same substitution of forms produces a parallel change of meaning . |
| 13 | The cat sat on the mat . |
| 14 | Hence such processing would prefer combinations of the form the cat sat on the mat to cat mat on sat the the . |
| 15 | The boy sat on the floor beside her , carving a piece of balsa wood . |
| 16 | The boy sat on the edge of the bed . |
| 17 | Several studies have described this gradual procedure of teaching the child to sit on the lavatory . |
| 18 | Encouraging a relaxed atmosphere , provision of toys , and letting the child sit on the potty in the middle of family activities can help establish positive attitudes to toileting . |
| 19 | At the end of the case people would see a bit of film of the child sitting on the drawing-room sofa between his parents who never took their eyes from him during the interview . |
| 20 | In the courtyard is the Madonna of the Mouse , so called because of the mouse sitting on the shoulder of the baby . |
| 21 | The station sits on the seaward edge of Cape Grim , at 100m altitude . |
| 22 | Now do n't tell me you spent the night sitting on the station , because they would n't let you , or parked in a stolen car , because you 're not that stupid , not quite . |
| 23 | The stranger might refuse to admit defeat and maintain simply that the person sitting on the bench was not I , that he was I , and that it was with him that the man who was now doubting his identity was having a conversation a moment ago . |
| 24 | I went through the back to sit on the chair . |
| 25 | erm The police have often described themselves as erm in the following way , that society throws its problems into the dustbin and asks the policeman to sit on the lid . |
| 26 | The policeman sat on the tailboard and shone the torch into the covered area , at the same time wheezing and catching his breath . |
| 27 | The video sat on the floor and a tape was in the machine . |
| 28 | You know , he said just for the eh , erm , friendly he had when he was in the , in the Air Force , he was flying in and one of the properties in America was the big fat ladies they 'd pull the chain sitting on the loo and those loos there and it was |
| 29 | I spent the morning sitting on the floor and the afternoon standing up at the shelf . |
| 30 | The student sits on the floor and opens his legs in front of him , pushing his body weight forward as far as it will go . |