Example sentences of "they sat on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They kept the fighting till later when they sat on the management-union joint negotiation committee . |
| 2 | The hills themselves looked asleep , the heather glowed dust-blue in the hazy light , and the people , after a night of little sleep and hours of walking and standing , now looked stunned as they sat on the grassy banks , leaned on dykes , or lay on their backs in the hayfields , munching oatcakes and drinking the last of their water . |
| 3 | It was Paula 's job to show samples , parading slowly up and down in front of the clients as they sat on the elegant spindle-leg chairs taking in every detail of the garments with a critical and practised eye . |
| 4 | They sat on the second row of choir benches to the left of the altar . |
| 5 | All through the morning , as they sat on the makeshift bunks , they stared without comment at the kneeling figure who ground away at the rust around the bolt . |
| 6 | They sat on the soft sand above the tide line while Adam ate ; there had always been fewer stones here , on this remote end of the beach where hardly anyone came . |
| 7 | They sat on the little bit of flat roof above the attic skylight , behind a low parapet . |