Sentence examples for permission to sit from inspiring English sources

They must ask permission to sit, stand, eat and speak.

I had to ask for permission to sit down.

He keeps Furtwängler waiting for hours, then forces him to ask permission to sit down.

Tahir asked for permission to sit on the ground, and the Pakistani guard granted it.

On a lark one day, I walked into the creative-writing department seeking permission to sit in on a class.

(I was given permission to sit in on the condition that I not divulge the participants' last names).

On the same day when the students in New York were handing their teachers parental "permission slips" to sit out their test, Public Agenda, a nonprofit polling organization, released results of a national survey on testing.

Permission to just sit and gaze out at the bay.

After the university refused to let him miss the exam, one of his tutors argued on his behalf and won permission for him to sit it early - so that he would finish just as the rest of the class entered.

On one occasion he had to request special permission to re-sit an examination as it clashed with an appearance at Carnegie Hall with the legendary American musician Doc Watson.

That's when Kallinen said her mother offered the principal written permission for her daughter to sit during the pledge, but that permission was allegedly declined.