Example sentences of "[been] sitting [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Well , I 've been sitting up with one of my best sows . |
| 2 | Yeah , Miss , we 've been sitting up here , yeah , Miss , it 's ten to ! |
| 3 | Once at Stonham the primary school pupils get off the bus leaving room downstairs which is soon filled by some of the people who have been sitting upstairs . |
| 4 | He went on : ‘ They are normally engaged in planning non-emergency journeys but since there have not been any it was felt that they have just been sitting around socialising when others are working long hours . |
| 5 | ‘ We 've been sitting around twiddling our thumbs for some of the time and people have been sloping off early , ’ he said . |
| 6 | It was only on the second and third day after the tragedy that the family slowly began to realise how many other people had been sitting around in shocked disbelief at the news . |
| 7 | Look at the source : Of course , BP and the rest of the plastics industry have n't been sitting around waiting for the environmental debate on waste to start . |
| 8 | I 've never known Ellie voluntairily stop home to cook when all of us been sitting around in the boozer chewin' the fat . |
| 9 | And Ben like when we were sort of there Ben sort of we 'd been sitting around for a while and he said it 's very embarrassing to have to ask this but you 're staying the night and stuff erm are you two a couple or are you just friends so no , just friends but it 's alright , if you do n't have any spare rooms we 'll be perfectly happy to sleep together , do n't worry . |
| 10 | I have noticed this during the last two or three days that I have been sitting here , being able for the first time in this House , to see the faces of my old associates , I have admired the way in which they have cheered to keep their spirits up , and I have admired those who have done that knowing — knowing — that only a few weeks , possibly , remain , before the place that knows them now will know them no more . |
| 11 | ‘ You mean to say we have been sitting here for an hour with a motorbike and sidecar parked outside ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I 've actually been trying to make up one about you , Miss Honey , while we 've been sitting here . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ He could have been sitting here instead of me . ’ |
| 14 | I 've been sitting here and thinking about God . |
| 15 | " Silly , really , I 've been sitting here puzzling about what to do and it 's suddenly clear . " |
| 16 | I 've been sitting here since two o'clock my two o'clock cup of coffee . |
| 17 | " I 've been sitting here worried sick . " |
| 18 | What about the last we did yesterday actually designers and training , it 's quite a , it 's quite a struggle that had a long day , been sitting here for a couple of hours I du n no it seems longer and there you are and you 're actually struggling |
| 19 | I must have been sitting here on the edge of his bed , first singing and stroking , then just stroking , for half an hour or so . |
| 20 | I said I 've been sitting here all lunchtime trying to sort out what bloody A A is apart from Alcoholics Anonymous . |
| 21 | have been sitting here |
| 22 | I 'm going to bed cos I 'm actually knackered and I do n't why I 've been sitting here talking |
| 23 | His father brushed the chair he had been sitting on and , with a flourish , invited Madeleine to sit down . |
| 24 | Then a grinding and then all of a sudden Captain Pugwash fell flat on his face as the stone he had been sitting on swung upwards , revealing a dark space below . |
| 25 | Around July time Sequent will release , for its Symmetry servers , the version of Unix SVR4 ES/MP that it worked on for Unix System Labs and has been sitting on since completion last March . |
| 26 | Mrs Denham refused his offer , and tucked the baby under one arm , and started to drag the blanket she had been sitting on after her into the house . |
| 27 | The young man pulled forward the chair he had been sitting on and lifted one leg up on it . |
| 28 | " Quiss she began quietly , He shook his head , kicked the small chair he had been sitting on , and marched off across the squeaking , grating glass floor , heading for his own apartments , Before he left the games room for the short corridor which led to his rooms , he stopped by the side wall of the room , where more conventional paper and cardboard books lined the slate fabric of the castle — the masons ' lame attempt at insulation . |
| 29 | They had all been sitting quietly for some time , waiting . |
| 30 | Sammy , who had been sitting quietly by their feet , jumped up and began barking . |