Example sentences of "[pron] sit [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Above them sit the bold , craggy edges — the first of which is Raven Stones on the very lip of the plateau . |
| 2 | I sit a mummy . |
| 3 | I sat a moment cursing the junkie builders , then suddenly the thought came : Hang on , Jimbo , this could be good news ( there 's nothing like a crack on the nut with a lead pipe to wake a body up ) , this could mean we 've got fresh water piped to the back door whenever it rains , and sucks to the waterboard . |
| 4 | During his three years at University College , London , he got work each Christmas with the post office in his home town of Woking : ‘ When I was coming to the end of my university period I sat a civil service examination with possible jobs at the end which included income tax , the secret service and the post office which involved travelling as a management trainee . |
| 5 | They sent me a reply back and I sat an exam . |
| 6 | I do n't think er , I do n't think you do do work , enough work , either of you really I mean if I sat an eleven plus today , by what , if they ever brought it back , it 'll be a lot different than what it was then |
| 7 | The P-bridge is the very essence of simplicity , being a face-mounted plate of thin chrome-plated steel , upon which sit a pair of saddle barrels , each carrying two strings and offering intonation adjustment via two , tail-mounted screws , and height adjustment via threaded adjusters . |
| 8 | In the corner farthest from the camera are propped lengths of beading with , to the right , a bracketed shelf on which sit a bottle and stone jars containing french polish . |
| 9 | Made from sterling silver and standing 30 inches high the cup weighs 325 ozs , has two handles and is topped with a lid on which sits a miniature football . |
| 10 | The SP1 runs AIX/6000 Version 3.2.3 on top of which sits the Parallel Operating Environment . |
| 11 | Cast iron gutter lengths have a ‘ socket ’ on one end , inside which sits the non-socket ( or ‘ spigot ’ ) end of the next length . |
| 12 | He is not a coach or a trainer who sits the game out , never plays it , but just as a theoretical tactician . |
| 13 | However , there was no computer system to manage the exercise — when the nav wanted a position line or fix he pre-warned the instructor , who sat the other side of the ‘ cockpit ’ facia , and at the appropriate time a piece of paper was pushed through the wall with the details scrawled upon it ! |
| 14 | No other state imposed tests of such severity ; of the sixty-six candidates who sat the entrance examination in 1913 only five achieved permanent posts . |
| 15 | Mrs Zamzam agreed to let me photograph her and she sat a little unsteadily beside the wall of her home just in front of the cherry tree . |
| 16 | She sat a long time by herself , looking at the forsythia . |
| 17 | In 1920 she sat the competitive examination to enter the International Labour Office in Geneva and joined its agricultural service . |
| 18 | She sat the cafetière firmly back down on its stand . |
| 19 | I would be honoured if you sat a while with us and shared the ch ‘ a . ‘ |
| 20 | So without knowing any more than you knew when you sat the exam , you could pick up an extra three marks there . |
| 21 | well I mean if you 've been in , you sat the opposite way |
| 22 | ‘ I think it would be better if we sat a little further apart , ’ she said at last in a slightly cracked tone . |
| 23 | At the centre of their hive there sits a queen , radiating her implacable commands through the labyrinthine tunnels . |
| 24 | At the end of the Boulevard there sits the enormous Catherine Palace , baroque and three times the size of the Alexander Palace . |
| 25 | Next the wife came to the second cavern , where there sat a fearsome bird , large as a mountain ; her feathers were of brass and her beak of iron . |
| 26 | There sat the poor thing with its windscreen smashed , its bonnet concertinered and the engine block on the front seat . |
| 27 | It is even possible that now and again an extra long detour may have caused us to walk below the windows of Braemar Mansions ( ‘ not mansions , ’ wrote Ivy , ‘ but converted out of houses ’ ) , little knowing that there sat the sibyl who would completely have understood all our troubles . |
| 28 | And on they travelled through the forest until they came to a place where the roads crossed and there sat an old woman resting on a stone . |
| 29 | Beside him sit the other island dignitaries , the representatives of each of the six communities into which the island is divided . |
| 30 | They sit every two months in the Verderers ' Hall in the Queen 's House at Lyndhurst , and deal with cases concerning common rights , unlawful enclosures , purprestures and encroachments . |