Example sentences of "sitting up [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wished there was a window in front , so she could see Midnight sitting up on the driver 's seat beside Hawkins . |
| 2 | Marie 's sitting up on the bed with a packet of fags . |
| 3 | Sitting up on the rail , he spat down at Trent , then tilted his head back and yapped like a Pekinese . |
| 4 | ‘ Yes I do , ’ Artemis replied , having spotted her stepmother , sitting up on the stone balustrade , slowly swinging her shapely legs and smoking a cigarette . |
| 5 | You can usually count on finding old Bill Waddy sitting up at the bar here , and old Gareth Holmroyd hovering about somewhere . ’ |
| 6 | Sitting up at the bar was Ingrid and the little dancer — two pretty girls , just what he needed . |
| 7 | I sort of nodded into a half-sleep sitting up at the counter . |
| 8 | Hasan was sitting up at the table , eating a large slice of toast . |
| 9 | You 're supposed to be sitting up at the table . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He consumed a bottle of Frascati and smoked two cigarettes , then turned green , almost passed out , and fell asleep sitting up in the chair . |
| 14 | 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 . |