Example sentences of "[noun sg] sit on " in BNC.
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| 1 | And at floor level the Revue sits on four skid feet . |
| 2 | Left : All five of the brightly coloured villages in Disney 's Caribbean Beach Resort sit on the edge of a huge lake , with beautiful sandy white beaches . |
| 3 | But that 's no excuse to sit on your backside cursing Michael Fish . |
| 4 | He slipped his arm around her and they walked through the park to sit on a secluded seat there . |
| 5 | Symbolically the owl sits on an Evil Eye that has been pierced by a spear , suggesting that the owl 's own ‘ Evil Eye ’ has been incapacitated by the mobbing display . |
| 6 | If the pillars are really in the proper places , there is not a stone on the site long enough to act as a lintel , and to provide a basis for the stone-built superstructures which at present sit on Evans ' concrete and iron supports . |
| 7 | The male sits on a favoured perch and when this is visited by a rival he sidles up to the intruder . |
| 8 | The male sits on the nest , but at the moment he appears to be out getting a meal . |
| 9 | That smell sits on my stomach . ’ |
| 10 | The building sits on bearings that isolate it from the ground . |
| 11 | The building sits on a awkward site on the left bank of the Seine . |
| 12 | I now see a certain awkwardness in the way Summerchild sits on the other side of my desk . |
| 13 | Yet Mrs Molina becomes the first Latino to sit on the county 's governing board since 1872 — and the first woman ever . |
| 14 | Sunderland made no attempt to sit on their lead , however , and looked just as likely as Norwich to score in a second half which comfortably surpassed the first in entertainment value . |
| 15 | Salt and pepper sit on the tables in old jam-jars : ‘ The biggest containers possible and they still get nicked , ’ says Mr Poole . |
| 16 | Count Jovian , after three years at an English university , has no mind to sit on a throne : |
| 17 | Yellow sits on the fence between the powerful punches of red and true-blue ; curiously , green ties are often associated with failure . |
| 18 | At 507x464x362mm and 40lbs weight , the DSP 's extension cab is relatively painless to cart around ; plus , it 's designed to have the combo sat on top of it . |
| 19 | When Rune successfully tried his luck at a shooting gallery and invited her to choose which prize she wanted , she selected a paperweight in the form of the Little Mermaid sitting on her rock . |
| 20 | The pictures are identical except in three respects : the presence or absence of a teddy bear sitting on the chair , a difference in the pattern on the counterpane , a difference in the position of a mirror . |
| 21 | MPs were debating Maastricht again in the Commons last night after yesterday 's 22-hour sitting on the treaty ratification bill . |
| 22 | I pick up the paper and think about my father 's Social Security card sitting on my desk at home . |
| 23 | Nigger could vaguely see a figure sitting on the stone slab on the left hand side of the small room . |
| 24 | The figure sitting on its far side was a man wearing sand-coloured trousers and a red shirt ; he had reddish-brown hair brushed straight back and looked square-shouldered and sturdy . |
| 25 | The odd , lugubrious figure sitting on a stool at the bar was now completely hidden from view along with the half-caste man yanking the arm of the one-armed bandit a few yards away . |
| 26 | Seb recognised the disconsolate figure sitting on a milestone at the top of a hill , no more than two and a half miles from Swinbrook . |
| 27 | I remember my wedding ring sitting on a fat burgundy cushion , Oliver leafing through the telephone directory looking for people with silly names , how I felt . |
| 28 | He is on the other side sitting on the end of the log . ’ |
| 29 | By the time the machine needle is opposite the linker needle it is in the working position , with the stitch sitting on top of the closed latch . |
| 30 | Although the frog is fearful of the scorpion 's sting , they finally agree that the frog will swim across with the scorpion sitting on its back . |