Example sentences of "they sit [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they sit back against the jolly green juggernaut they 'll get run over — make no mistake about it . |
| 2 | The four went back to No. 43 , in a close tender group , Jim as king , as victor , and , unwilling that the evening should be lost , they sat on around the kitchen table , sentinelled by the yellow forsythia , and could not bear to part . |
| 3 | They sat up at the front : Uncle Harry at one end ( when he was n't away at sea ) and Aunt Ann at the other , with her cousins Tristram , Jill , Nathan and Matthew in between . |
| 4 | All-night parties , Nina dancing in the nude , Modi stumbling into the sketching class very drunk , the weekly visits to the Gaieté Montparnasse , a small , bawdy music-hall where they sat up in the gallery , all paint a happy-go-lucky picture . |
| 5 | The men had won their prestige from work , from scholarship , in the public arena ; and they sat outside on the pavement benches , publicly debating politics , theology , and history . |
| 6 | They sat there with the door open to let the temperature drop before driving off . |
| 7 | And they sat there on the computers and the woman said right everybody out , she 's an old battleaxe ! |
| 8 | They sat down at the table , and took out of their pockets packets of cigarettes , lighters and calculators , placing these objects carefully in front of them as if they were necessary equipment for some game they were about to play . |
| 9 | They sat down at the table . |
| 10 | When they sat down at the kitchen table , Emily perched on the edge of her chair , and her hands were never still . |
| 11 | They sat down at the table and Monks started immediately . |
| 12 | They sat down at the big kitchen table and Mrs Wood put the food on three hot plates . |
| 13 | By common consent they sat down on the wet seat of ‘ Traveller 's Rest ’ , huddled under the umbrella , and stared out across the city . |
| 14 | They sat down on the double one . |
| 15 | They sat down in the road and , when the state police dragged them away , they threw jackrocks under the wheels of the ‘ scab ’ trucks ( a jackrock is a couple of sharpened nails welded together so that no matter which way they land , they always have a point sticking up in the air ) . |
| 16 | An hour later , after scratching their arms and legs and staining their hands and mouths with juice , they sat down in the grass and passed a bottle of lemonade around . |
| 17 | Then they sat down in the great dining hall to drink . |
| 18 | ‘ Because one thing 's for certain , Charlie Trumper , ’ she told him as they sat down in the little room at the back of Salmon 's to check the monthly accounts , ‘ you do n't know the first thing about butchery . |
| 19 | They sat down beneath the shade of an umbrella , and looked at each other across the table . |
| 20 | They sat down against the summerhouse wall and talked of each others activities over the last nine years . |
| 21 | Once at the square , they sat down by the Monument to the People 's Heroes in the early hours of a bitterly cold Beijing morning . |
| 22 | But he grew serious now as they sat out on the terrace , two blissful days into their marriage , watching a blood-red sun sink into a blood-red sea . |
| 23 | Now they sat eagerly on the rows of brittle gilt chairs with red velvet seats , their exquisitely made-up faces carefully devoid of expression as they made brief notes on their programmes , pretending not to notice that sometimes the clicking cameras were directed not at the catwalk models , all of whom had already done a photo-call session for the photographers the previous day , but at them — the society women of America and the international circuit , the bored charity conscious wives of big businessmen , the famed actresses of stage and screen , even the occasional European princess . |
| 24 | As they sat together on the grass , she looked at the tumbling waters of the beck and told him how Maria had slipped on the stepping-stones , down by the farm . |
| 25 | They sat together on the rattling tram , Fred holding her hand and Carrie biting her bottom lip in frustration as the tram stopped at the Tower Bridge Hotel for the conductor to alter the points . |
| 26 | They sat together on the settee . |
| 27 | In the drawing room they sat together on the large settee . |
| 28 | They sat together on the sofa , and Cassie thought : How do I tell him ? |
| 29 | And as they sat together in the darkening room , as flares were lit in the garden and there was a blast of distant pop music through a crackling loudspeaker system , Molly confessed , ‘ I must say I 'm curious about Mr Kettering . ’ |
| 30 | They sat together in the darkness , in front of the log fire which was welcome on a summer night suddenly grown cool , and Molly wondered why S. Kettering should be referred to in the past tense . |