Example sentences of "been sitting [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ From the position of the body I think he could have been sitting on the edge of the bed . |
| 2 | She had been sitting on the edge of the bed , and now she leaned forward to take the other woman 's hand again . |
| 3 | She 'd been sitting on the edge of the bed when they 'd arrived , two large uniformed men . |
| 4 | Benjamin , who had been sitting on the edge of his trestle bed , got up and opened the door . |
| 5 | But as it was no longer where she had left it , then it must have done , unless someone had shot into Rose Cottage and stolen it while Cassie had been sitting on the loo . |
| 6 | It 's been sitting on the forecourt of a garage just outside Ross on Wye for the past few weeks , and is gaining a considerable amount of interest from passers by … but as yet no one is very serious about buying it . |
| 7 | Clint says he has been sitting on the story of Unforgiven for 15 years waiting to grow into the part but denies that this could be the last time he saddles up and rides off into the sunset . |
| 8 | Miguel had been sitting on the balcony staring out across the valley . |
| 9 | He slowly straightened to his full height and she realised he had been sitting on the bed leaning over her . |
| 10 | He had been sitting on the cart since early morning and all he had to show for scouring the streets was an old tin bath that he had found on some wasteground , a couple of sacks of rags and one or two pieces of old iron . |
| 11 | She had been sitting on the shingle staring out to sea , her arms clasped round her knees , Timmy lying asleep on the small rug beside her . |
| 12 | When one complainant alleged that he had been sitting in the Common Bench while the complainant had had his proper challenges to jurors refused , the auditors of complaints simply accepted his statement that he had been sitting on the bench not as a justice but as a well-wisher of the complainant 's opponent ( the prior of Sempringham ) . |
| 13 | He 's been sitting on the bench for the last hour and has never once taken his eyes off the shop . |
| 14 | A moment before Melinda herself had been sitting on the bag . |
| 15 | He came forward into the firelight then and she saw he had been sitting beside the range , in an old rocking chair which he had left tilting back and forth , to take the lantern from her , grasping her free hand in his . |
| 16 | A government anti- hooligan committee has been sitting with the Football Association ; they 've drawn up a great body of information collated by the police football intelligence unit based in London . |
| 17 | Although he had been fortunate to have been sitting at the back of the coach he received a fractured spine . |
| 18 | His father had been working on the farm and he had been sitting at the door of the hut . |
| 19 | ‘ If we had been sitting at the bottom I could accept my fate , but we are seventh and have lost only one of the last eight games . ’ |
| 20 | I had been sitting at the table housed in the living room bay window , trying to write a paper for a tutorial the next day , but Gavin and Janice had chosen to punctuate their highly audible coupling sessions ( in what the more tenacious core-areas of my long-term memory still sporadically insisted had once been my bedroom ) with an almost equally noisy episode of tortilla chip eating . |
| 21 | Peter had been sitting at the table on which there was a mug of tea and a brightly coloured magazine . |
| 22 | Then she looked swiftly , secretly with her large eyes back to where Conchis must have been sitting at the harpsichord , and then again at me . |
| 23 | She and Sarah had been sitting under the balcony and when the warning was given they moved forward but continued to enjoy the film in which John McCormack sang Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms and The Dawning of the Day . |
| 24 | She must have been sitting over the phone . |
| 25 | Sometimes , when he had been sitting near the side of the boat , an ill-considered back cast sent him flying into the water ; and often it was a close run thing before I could get the landing net under his sodden frame . |
| 26 | In a series of other cases from eyres where Mettingham had been one of the justices the auditors accepted his ‘ record ’ that he had not been sitting in the court when the case concerned was decided . |
| 27 | ‘ For four years before being appointed full time I sat as a recorder so I have really been sitting in the crown court for 17 years , ’ said Mr Hewitt , whose work on the North Eastern Circuit has taken him to courts from Humberside to the Scottish and Lancashire borders . |
| 28 | They have been sitting in the back of the mini-van , swapping football scores and smoking cigarettes . |
| 29 | She crouched forward in the chair , her muscles stiff , as if she had been sitting in the cold for a long time . |
| 30 | Dottie Banks had been sitting in the auditorium , so she was exonerated , with the same proviso . |