Example sentences of "sitting [adv prt] in [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A comfortable position , usually sitting down in a chair with no undue muscular tension . |
| 2 | So the silhouette of the Dalek actually came directly from the shape of a person sitting down in a chair . |
| 3 | She seemed to vanish as quickly as she had appeared , leaving Ianthe to be pushed forward into the train , where she stood in a daze until she found herself sitting down in a seat offered to her by a small boy . |
| 4 | I 've forgotten your name , Judy oh sitting down in the meadow I think , oh are n't you having fun , come on Rocket , oh Rock , Rock , Rock , you , Rocket , I hide , he get 's every so anxious if I hide . |
| 5 | Only when they were sitting down in the chop-house and Dr Neil had ordered them soup and rolls , followed by lamb chops with seasonal vegetables , and a glass of red wine each — ‘ Good for your shattered nerves , ’ he said gravely — and they were waiting for the soup to arrive did Sally-Anne have time to look about her . |
| 6 | ‘ Well now , Cap'n Smollett , ’ said Silver , sitting down in the sand , ‘ you were very clever , last night . |
| 7 | We 're doin' very good , ’ Fred replied , sitting down in the chair facing his young wife . |
| 8 | It was just as I was sitting down in the living room with my cup of coffee that I realised I 'd left my bag on the train . |
| 9 | Erm I 've got a girl sitting down in the foyer . |
| 10 | But when Alice was taken in to see her on the second day , she was sitting up in a swansdown wrap , surrounded by flowers . |
| 11 | Brückner was sitting up in a chair . |
| 12 | It was a warm wind , though , and there was no real hardship in sitting up in the cockpit reading hornblower by the binnacle light as giant flames licked the night sky . |
| 13 | It happened that the dog was silenced just as her last remark emerged , and over his body , flattened now to the sheet where he lay panting , the old woman sitting up in the bed flashed her a look . |
| 14 | I also visited the Sadlers Wells Ballet , sitting up in the gallery with friends for one shilling and sixpence in old money and watching the Corps open up before us like the flowers whose waltz they were dancing , and that talented new ballerina Miss Margot Fonteyn taking her first curtain calls . |
| 15 | He consumed a bottle of Frascati and smoked two cigarettes , then turned green , almost passed out , and fell asleep sitting up in the chair . |
| 16 | But sitting up in the bedroom looking down towards the river , she was asking herself more often of late whether meat and clothing were all there was to life . |
| 17 | A spot like ‘ The Pit ’ , a jealously guarded beach near Porthtowan , will see teenagers and fathers sitting out in the line-up together . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'd say you 'd been sitting out in the sun too long . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Anna warned me about sitting out in the sun , but … ’ |
| 20 | well not everyone was racing around at the weekend … thousands were sitting out in the sun yesterday at Moreton in Marsh to enjoy a game of sunday cricket … it was Gloucestershire against Northamptonshire |
| 21 | Christine 's sitting out in the car ! |
| 22 | He would n't just be sitting out in the open , would he ? |
| 23 | He felt really mean , sitting back in the cab , watching Manhattan by night . |
| 24 | Piers asked , sitting back in the sofa , and clasping his hands behind his head . |
| 25 | The memoirs of four men sitting back in The Garrick , perhaps . |
| 26 | I kept silent , sitting back in the wherry to gaze forlornly across at the spires , towers and turrets of the city . |
| 27 | Uses behaviour that emphasises the interviewer 's powers to appraise and evaluate — sitting back in the chair , head tilting backwards , hand covering mouth , perhaps , looking doubtful and not registering any reaction to what is said , or indicating that he or she appreciates that their ‘ victim ’ has finished an answer . |
| 28 | All that sitting around in a circle . |
| 29 | I never see fewer than six or seven young men sitting around in the kitchen when I go in there , I 've never worked out who 's a brother or a cousin or what . |
| 30 | Sitting around in the sun all day , scoffing tons of ice cream is his idea of heaven , though he did get a bit miffed when Greenpeace tried to push him back into the sea . |