The phrase "there sits" is correct and is usable in written English.
It is used to indicate a location or position. For example: There sits a bird on the windowsill.
On the cover of Curtis Sittenfeld's new novel there sits a frog wearing a crown.
The Gurez avalanche was particularly unexpected because the military camp there sits on flat land along a riverbank, officials said.
In the midst of this lubricious blizzard, however, the track "Wanna Be There" sits as an oasis of relative sincerity.
On a base of low concrete walls there sits what was once a piece of clanking, many-chambered machinery.
Meanwhile, there sits that barren hill, off-limits to most, standing over shoppers headed to Dress Barn or MaggieMoo's Ice Cream.
V: Josephine In a box in the corner of this room, there sits the ashes of a girl Hitler would have murdered.
Today, the house there sits vacant, and Ms. Washington and her children are in New York, trying to go on after two bitter, challenging years.
"We can't go past 9th Avenue and 34th," he said, for there sits the siren of the B & H Photo store.
On the looming cliff-face of Dean Clough mill in Halifax there sits an enormous sign, 7m long, in glittering aluminium.
Few people strolling along Sackett Street would guess that behind the worn red brick facade with the weeping cherry out front there sits a sleek modern structure in which everything — walls, floors, the top-floor extension — is brand-new.
What if there sits in Downing Street today a modern-day Moriarty, living in a world where his schemes are only kept in check by the deductive brilliance of Harriet Harman?
