Example sentences of "sit [prep] the [noun sg] in " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 I used to pull the blinds , turn out the lights and sit in the dark in terror , thinking , ‘ What am I going to do here ?
2 Sit on the floor in the library , look at the books from a child 's level — are they interesting , would you be tempted to take one home if you were a child ?
3 I go and sit on the bench in front of the Christmas tree and stare at it .
4 ‘ Orficer , ’ she said , ‘ I sit on the bench in Cisister .
5 A little fat nun had once cried in the heat of Egypt 's afternoon , in the accents of County Cork , that she wished she could take off her flesh and sit by the well in her bones .
6 Sit by the fountain in Cattolica
  Next page