Example sentences of "to sit on [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She refused , because as she said she had no urge to sit on a draughty hillside and watch him break his miserable neck . |
| 2 | Once it was dark , Jane went out to sit on a low wall where she could have a good view . |
| 3 | The car was locked , and she was forced to sit on a low wall that surrounded the garden while she waited for David to return . |
| 4 | They were the first couple in parliamentary history to sit on a front bench together in either House . |
| 5 | He zipped it up again , and I imagined him going to sit on a black plastic jerry-can to drink his own tea and have a smoke . |
| 6 | He slipped his arm around her and they walked through the park to sit on a secluded seat there . |
| 7 | In her turn she came to the Sister , who extracted a folder with Orton , Stephanie Jane , EDD 13. 4.54 on it , from a pile on her left , transferred it to a pile on her right and permitted Stephanie to sit on a brown canvas and metal tube chair for another half hour . |
| 8 | As a small child Eva was allowed to sit on a little stool next to the pianist at the Maryborough corps , where she would sing and clap during the meeting . |
| 9 | So Changez 's new job was to sit on a three-legged stool behind the vegetable section and watch for shop-lifters . |
| 10 | She 's been asked to sit on a human rights commission and now she 's full of stories of gruesome tortures in Turkish prisons , of Russian poets locked up in psychiatric wards . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Do n't look so dismayed , ’ begged Mrs Alderley , taking Theda 's hand and obliging her to sit on an elegant Sheraton sofa . |
| 12 | They countered the threat by inviting only safe theologians — largely Rome-based — to sit on the preparatory commissions . |
| 13 | His wife , more canny than she seemed , had already witnessed huge losses over a scheme to promote detachable shirt cuffs , and so far she had managed to sit on the remaining money . |
| 14 | Delegates attending the session in Torquay were asked to sit on the right-hand side of the room if they were in favour of the motion and on the left if they were against it . |
| 15 | I put two chairs together , sat down on one with Dawn and got my mother to sit on the other chair with the cat . |
| 16 | The feeling for the good player who tends to have an aggravating fade with tee shots , is one of turning in the backswing and then almost trying to sit on the right foot until the moment of impact , the club getting there before the body unwinds . |
| 17 | Gur , Gur and Marshalek ( 1975 ) discuss findings which suggest that people who typically move their eyes in a leftward direction prefer to sit on the right side of a classroom ( looking towards the front ) . |
| 18 | Sit comfortably at the machine and bring the console over to sit on the front bed . |
| 19 | The Union also elects student representatives to sit on the principal decision-making bodies of the University , the Council and Senate , and their major sub-committees . |
| 20 | The Union also elects student representatives to sit on the principal decision-making bodies of the University , the Council and Senate , and their major sub-committees . |
| 21 | The doctor , a family friend , had called to see his father , after which Leonard was invited to sit on the good man 's lap . |
| 22 | When he did , with a flustered Lady Agnes in tow , Corbett abruptly told him to leave and asked Agnes to sit on the crude bench opposite him . |
| 23 | MR JOHN MacGregor , the Education Secretary , has distanced himself from the Government 's loans scheme for students by appointing the two most junior ministers at the Department of Education and Science to sit on the parliamentary committee discussing the Education ( Student Loans ) Bill . |
| 24 | It was far safer politically and economically to sit on the scientific fence . |
| 25 | Get her to sit on the bottom stair and put them on , as this way she 'll have better access to the fastening . |
| 26 | The girls , coaxed from the cars and persuaded to sit on the bottom row of the stand , were heaped with the players ' coats and scarves and warned not to fidget . |
| 27 | I am privileged to sit on the Medical Group of the JAA . |
| 28 | Rain opened the doors to the garden and fetched cushions so that it was bearable to sit on the scorched chairs . |