Example sentences of "to sit in the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eighteen East German delegates were to sit in the European Parliament pending direct elections . |
| 2 | Her children Peter , 15 , and 11-year-old Zara are expected to sit in the front pew for the short service . |
| 3 | Dana sulked because Roman had thwarted her plan to sit in the front passenger seat , and Claudia , conscious of her twin 's glowering presence , could n't find anything to say . |
| 4 | The Burrows children were expected to be examples to the other youngsters in the corps , and had to sit in the front seats of any hall they attended , where Captain Burrows could keep his eagle eye on them . |
| 5 | Drifting outside to sit in the cooler evening air , Ace , Benny and Petion chatted together . |
| 6 | Stella 's main job was to sit in the prompt corner with the book . |
| 7 | The simplest way to start is to encourage the dog to sit in the required position , even when there is no one at the door . |
| 8 | They have to sit in the one room , wearing extra jumpers , watching television . |
| 9 | This 100 ( or such lesser number as existed at any time ) were to elect 28 of their number to sit in the new House . |
| 10 | A government communiqué was also reported to have ruled out the possibility of FARC and ELN delegates being allowed to sit in the new Constituent Assembly to be elected in December . |
| 11 | Do you want ask you to sit in the other chair ? |
| 12 | All peers of England have retained entitlement to sit in the appropriate House of Lords throughout . |
| 13 | There were at most twenty-two Jacobite peers in the House of Lords , ten of whom were Scottish representative peers , who owed their places to the Union of 1707 ( under the terms of which , the Scottish peers as a whole elected sixteen of their number to sit in the upper chamber at Westminster ) . |
| 14 | Lord Haldane himself expressed his ‘ strong conviction that , at all events for a judge who is to sit in the Supreme Tribunals of the Empire , a House of Commons training is a real advantage . |
| 15 | Rachel asked the patient to sit in the small waiting area then turned as if to go and prepare herself to see to him . |
| 16 | The mother shouted at one of the boys and he went back to sit in the small lorry . |
| 17 | ‘ Some of them seem content to sit in the Royal Box at Wembley and shake hands . |
| 18 | I mean th , the amount of time we have to sit in the blasted garden anyway is er nothing in n it ? |
| 19 | A folk hero , a man who could draw climbers literally hundreds of miles just to sit in the same pub and hear him sing and play his accordion . |
| 20 | Yet the Government expected unionists to sit in the same council chamber with them . |
| 21 | The person on duty disappeared out the back and I went to sit in the same seat where I had sat the night before . |
| 22 | These symptoms were present most of the time , but became much worse if Sheila drove the car , used certain aerosol sprays , or had to sit in the same room as someone wearing perfume or aftershave . |
| 23 | Christian Democrats voted by 66 to 28 to accept the Tories as ‘ allied members ’ , allowing them to sit in the same group as the Christian Democrats in the Strasbourg Euro-parliament from May 1 . |
| 24 | One thinks of someone like Karl Marx who , expelled from continental countries , was allowed into this country to sit in the British Library and write books . |