Example sentences of "where [pers pn] sit [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 Miranda fled , unseeing down the dark passage to the lavatory where she sat for a very long time feeling sick to her stomach .
2 ‘ Gee , ’ Charity Marlowe responded drily from where she sat in a decrepit upholstered chair , her head thrown back , her hair hidden under a towel , and her eyes clenched tightly shut .
3 I leap off my spot and down into the cabin where it sits in a predominant place .
4 He has a few modish novels , a collection of articles by Paul Bordieu , a copy of the New York Review and some scripts lying on the table in front of the sofa where he sits with a bottle of Yorre — never Perrier — and an ice bucket of champagne , sacramental , in front of him to greet the actresses as they are shown in .
5 ‘ But I think it is a pointless exercise , ’ said Floy , somewhere towards morning , a thin , cold light filtering in through the windows to where he sat at a great desk , his black hair tumbled , hollows in his cheeks , his face white with fatigue .
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