Example sentences of "[noun sg] sit the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the bottom level sits the SQL Server engine itself . |
| 2 | At the bottom level sits the SQL Server engine itself . |
| 3 | To the south sat the snowy summit of Mount Eddy . |
| 4 | the forty pound fee to sit the exam |
| 5 | The smaller , vertical indicator column headed ‘ program ’ tells you which memory number is in use , while to its right sits the memory selector keypad . |
| 6 | And at the heart of the community sits the queen . |
| 7 | Dot managed to wriggle past and down the stairs , and there in the basement room sat the man in the drab , illfitting , demob suit . |
| 8 | There was a gigantic salon , clinically white , and in this room sat the collected archons of Sector 23 's palaces of pleasure . |
| 9 | There was a very angry cook by the fire , and in the middle of the room sat the Duchess , holding a screaming baby . |
| 10 | The Prime Minister crouched behind his spectacles , while spread out on both wings of the platform sat the members of his Cabinet . |
| 11 | At a table in the alcove on the dining-room wall sat the girl Camb had brought to him earlier in the day , an elderly woman and a man . |
| 12 | Behind them came the yeomen and husbandmen and the better-off craftsmen , and at the rear and along the south wall sat the cottagers . |
| 13 | For at the table 's head sat the most bizarre Scarabae of all . |
| 14 | Just behind this control sits the chuck key holder . |
| 15 | In their eighties , they were still living in Norham Gardens , the North Oxford avenue that leads to Lady Margaret Hall , the women 's college where they had studied and taught ; they had been among the first women students to be allowed officially to take a degree , though woman sat the examinations in order to make the point after the college 's foundation in 1878 . |
| 16 | There , on the great high-backed oak chair sat the Judge . |
| 17 | At the end of the drive sits the colonial-style clubhouse . |
| 18 | External students ( those studying by distance learning ) who have requested a certain centre to sit the examinations will be accommodated , where possible , at the centre requested . |
| 19 | In the centre of the cloister sits the Santa Casa , the House of Mary , designed before the monastery in 1626–31 by Giovanni Domenico Orsi and A. Allio . |
| 20 | Behind the blank blue glass sat the Controller and Director , and Angel One knew that the former was there to gloat over his recent downfall , and hoped-for death , at the hands of the Executioner . |
| 21 | On the headland above Praia do Carvoeiro and overlooking the sea sat the small white local church . |
| 22 | Stretched out on the pavement lay the huge Godzilla , apparently lifeless , while astride his chest sat the victorious shaven King Kong . |
| 23 | In the corner of the dark kitchen sat the child , crooning to herself , eating dried crusts of mud and dung fallen from people 's boots as they tramped in and out . |
| 24 | Between the torque control and the trigger sits the forward/reverse switch , a smallish device that can be set on neutral to stop the machine being accidentally turned on . |
| 25 | Inside the castle sat the great Daybog and his noble guests , drinking wine from golden cups . |
| 26 | Behind the table sat the President of the World . |
| 27 | At another table sat the Venetians : the brothers Martini as well as Corner and Loredano and Paul Erizzo . |
| 28 | Across the table sat the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits ( ARATS ) , a Beijing front organisation set up to give the SEF a liaison partner . |