Example sentences of "sitting [adv prt] on [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I first met ‘ Steve ’ Brodie on a visit to Toronto when we were both sitting in on a broadcast featuring Percy Faith and his orchestra , and I remember how we both were enthralled by Percy 's arrangement of ‘ Beyond the Blue Horizon ’ . |
| 2 | Well no it 's , it 's the same councillors that 's come to your door that are sitting in on the meeting and saying no , it 's impossible ! |
| 3 | Give yourself a massage either standing up or sitting down on a towel . |
| 4 | ‘ Nisodemus is causing trouble , ’ he said , sitting down on a bench . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm glad to hear that you 've found someone to help you with the children at last , ’ he said , sitting down on the sofa beside her . |
| 6 | Well , it 's , it 's simple that if I got up at half past six , and took him up a cup of tea at quarter too seven , and when he was around at seven o'clock , I was grilling bacon and I was frying eggs , and I hope , I do n't know whether perhaps it 's my cold , but , I , I just used to feel terribly unwell after he 'd gone , for about two hours and my legs were so wobbly , I was sitting down on the sofa , I may go back yet to cooking him breakfast if I feel like it , but , the , I mean if I can say to these chaps that , there are times when I do n't feel like doing things , well , I reckon Dave that they are so glad to be in that house with the central heating , with the twenty four hour er , er a day water , and the comfort , there not going to argue . |
| 7 | ‘ No , ’ he repeated , sitting down on the stool and cradling the blackjack of ale in his hands , ‘ Woodforde is a quiet place . |
| 8 | Similarly on glaciers , the impact on a crevasse fall is greatly lessened by the friction of the rope cutting into the crevasse edge , and the load is easily held by sitting down on the surface and digging in the heels . |
| 9 | ‘ Oh , Tess ! ’ said Bob , sitting down on the bed and putting his arm round her shoulders . |
| 10 | Sitting down on the edge of the bed , he began to draw circles in the air with the toes of his left foot . |
| 11 | " But you lived in a brothel , " Jane said , disbelief in her voice , sitting down on the edge of the bed and rubbing vigorously at her hair . |
| 12 | ‘ We were worried about you , ’ Ianthe explained , sitting down on the edge of the narrow bed . |
| 13 | ‘ Lunch wo n't be long , ’ said Bernice , sitting down on the edge of Billy 's bed and letting a hand stray over the duvet . |
| 14 | He tried to imagine her crossing to the phone , sitting down on the chair , legs slightly apart . |
| 15 | All of them were chasing the duck but they 've all they 've all decided to stop for the moment , they 're all sitting down on the grass . |
| 16 | Mrs Wright was sitting down on the bank , the gun across her knees . |
| 17 | She was sitting down on the couch with Newman beside her . |
| 18 | The whole idea of erm a fax is to get the thing there quickly is n't it ? if it 's sort of sitting up on a desk for three days before they bring it down . |
| 19 | I 'm sitting up on a hillside looking down on Lollapalooza , by a ski lodge which is shut down for the summer . |
| 20 | She wished there was a window in front , so she could see Midnight sitting up on the driver 's seat beside Hawkins . |
| 21 | Marie 's sitting up on the bed with a packet of fags . |
| 22 | Sitting up on the rail , he spat down at Trent , then tilted his head back and yapped like a Pekinese . |
| 23 | ‘ Yes I do , ’ Artemis replied , having spotted her stepmother , sitting up on the stone balustrade , slowly swinging her shapely legs and smoking a cigarette . |
| 24 | There is nothing like sitting out on a trapeze on a windy day , getting completely soaked by each new wave to make you feel cleansed of the city grime . |
| 25 | I first saw him when you were sitting out on the veranda ; but I did n't pay any attention to him . |
| 26 | Carwyn Williams was sitting out on the balcony watching the waves . |
| 27 | They were sitting out on the terrace on the low wall of which stood , in pairs , stone figures from classical mythology of a rather embarrassing kind . |
| 28 | Twenty four hours later he was sitting out on the Corso . |
| 29 | I met her sitting out on the bench where Michael Willis always sat , water-gazing . |
| 30 | There it is sitting out on the garden path where I left it . |