Sentence examples for sitting for over from inspiring English sources

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"The United States House of Representatives has been sitting for over 500 days on a piece of legislation that had wide public support...

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And there's nothing kids hate more than sitting for hours over a meal.

There, by dint of putting multiple tubes and probes into Weddell seals, sitting for hours over ice holes or slowly dunking their heads in water to simulate dives, he and other scientists tried to learn how seals held their breath for so long, and how pregnant females provided their fetuses with sufficient oxygen.

That was how Martha talked about such things, her language straight out of self-help books and women's magazines, but it had worked, and Eva had looked forward to sitting for hours over a plate of biscuits, telling each other the stories people tell when they are trying to remember what it was they were doing before their lives were so rudely interrupted.

"People say we'll lose all our smoking clientele, but my feeling is those people would be replaced by people who don't smoke and want to eat and spend money rather than sitting for three hours over a cappuccino".

As Whipple puts it, "Aaron Sorkin couldn't have dreamed up these characters". The filmmakers delayed delivery in order to address the attacks in Paris that killed 130 people on Nov. 13.Though they've lived in New York for decades, the Naudets were born and raised in Paris and still retain their Gallic charm, sitting for an interview over coffee and fresh croissants.

Anjelica Huston wasn't thrilled with the idea of sitting for two hours each morning over a period of several weeks being turned into "the most extreme hag of a witch you've ever seen" for Warner Bros.' "The Witches," due out Aug. 24.

A1 Bush on 'Oprah' Gov. George W. Bush appeared on Oprah Winfrey's program, whose audience is three-fourths women, sitting for an interview that emphasized biography over policy.

The twelve activities were: dressing without help, outdoor walks, climbing stairs, sitting for a longer time, standing bent over a sink, carrying a bag, making a bed, running, do light work, do heavy work, lifting heavy objects, participating in exercise/sport.

Over the weeks I spent sitting for Johnny – he took photographs first, and then I went in to his studio for around eight sittings – I found many parallels.

I remember after it was over, we just sat there, though we had been sitting for a very long time.

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