Example sentences of "they sit [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They sit with the European peoples party in parliament . |
| 2 | If they sit at the same or adjacent desks they have a spatial bond . |
| 3 | If they sit at the same or adjacent desks they have a spatial bond . |
| 4 | The persons alleged to have picked up the letter then chase the accusers round the circle and try to catch them before they sit in the empty space , as in the previous game . |
| 5 | But although he might not be bright , Balor 's head was on a level with Floy and Snodgrass as they sat astride the two horses and he was twice the size of either of them . |
| 6 | Benjamin and I sat at one end of the trestle board , they sat at the other , grouped together like stupid boys immersed in their own private jokes . |
| 7 | On the first-floor terrace they sat at the round table while Roman did the honours with gin and tonics . |
| 8 | They sat at the great wooden table , drinking a little water out of earthenware bowls , chewing cactus . |
| 9 | They sat at the far end of the carriage , talking in hushed tones . |
| 10 | ‘ They kept the fighting till later when they sat on the management-union joint negotiation committee . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | They sat on the second row of choir benches to the left of the altar . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | They sat on the little bit of flat roof above the attic skylight , behind a low parapet . |
| 17 | Leary poured coffee into wide china cups and they sat around the rough wooden kitchen table and drank . |
| 18 | A number of respondents commented on the lack of stimulation : ‘ They sat in the front room and did n't move . |
| 19 | Sometimes they sat in the front room reading aloud from the work of a man called Ian McEwan , an author who , according to Elinor , had ‘ a great deal to say ’ to Henry Farr . |
| 20 | Piggy-wig was in the kitchen , Dionne opened a bottle of white wine and they sat in the elegant grey-blue lounge . |
| 21 | Her face flushed and she turned almost desperately to Marguerite as they sat in the small gold and white salon waiting for their refreshments . |
| 22 | They sat in the private bar at the Gates looking down into their glasses , trying to think what it should be . |
| 23 | Empty plates with crumbs from a chicken pie littered the floor around them as they sat in the late evening peace , that Monday night . |
| 24 | Now they sat in the tiny dressing room , their washing hanging on the radiators , eating health food and tirelessly sending information and soft-focus photographs of themselves to directors , theatres , agents , TV companies and producers . |
| 25 | They sat in the last of the sun on the morning-room steps . |
| 26 | They sat in the dingy room , with its green painted walls and picture of the Sacred Heart , a tiny red eye of an oil lamp burning in front of it . |
| 27 | They sat in the back garden at Eleanor Darcy 's insistence . |
| 28 | They sat in the cold front room , not daring to light a fire in the strange house . |
| 29 | They sat in the littered corners at the ends , beggars in various states of desperation waiting mutely for handouts . |
| 30 | He carried a small bag and she misunderstood the purpose of his visit as they sat in the curtained living room . |