Example sentences of "sitting [prep] he in the " in BNC.

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1 Following him out of the office and down into the street , sitting beside him in the cab which took them to Covent Garden , sitting opposite him in the warm restaurant full of good smells , candlelight , fresh flowers , her predominant feeling was one of surprise .
2 Sitting below him in the well of No 3 Court , Private Eye 's editor Ian Hislop nodded his head vigorously in agreement .
3 But sitting behind him in the public gallery , some of the Nock family started to cry .
4 And yet here she was , sitting with him in the conservatory , her hand held in his , blushing beneath his gaze .
5 There was to her something romantic about the idea of sitting with him in the place where she had so often sat alone , eating a poached egg or macaroni cheese at a shaky little oak table .
6 A dying man asked for a chair to be placed by his bedside , because he sensed that Jesus Christ was sitting beside him in the darkness throughout the night .
7 He asked about her journey , and sitting beside him in the car she recounted the mix-up over the sleeper numbers , enjoying , still , hearing herself speak French .
8 Following him out of the office and down into the street , sitting beside him in the cab which took them to Covent Garden , sitting opposite him in the warm restaurant full of good smells , candlelight , fresh flowers , her predominant feeling was one of surprise .
9 Two years ago he was involved in a dreadful crash on the western Ring Road in which his wife , who was sitting beside him in the passenger seat , received such serious injuries to the lower half of the body that for the rest of her life — a life which ended tragically last week — she was confined to a wheel-chair .
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