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‘Persons may sit in silence.’

[⟨det (plur person.n)⟩ sit.v (:p in.p (k silence.n))]

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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

We both sat in silence for a while, Noel stirring his coffee.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

I consider it the first funeral I ever went to. 50,000 people sitting in stunned silence.
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In the British National Corpus:

The two young people had been sitting in silence for most of the time Nahum had been upstairs, Seb gazing morosely into the fire and Carrie reading at the kitchen table.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

We just sat in silence for a while, and that was fine with me.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

We sat there in total silence, and then I real…
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Much to Han Geng’s surprise they sat in silence until Siwon came back.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

And as was their ritual, too, that they’d sit together in silence for a while before they’d begin to speak.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

We sat in silence for a minute, then I said, before I could chicken out, “I think I might… have feelings for him.”
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Brendon stopped talking for a little while, and we sat together in silence.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

They sat in silence, sipping their sodas for a time.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

“Kristian lit him a cigarette and they sat there in silence the next seven minutes, smoking and watching the smoke vanish.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

They sat in silence again, but suddenly, Jeremy spoke up.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

They sat in silence for a moment staring up at the dark night sky before Brendon let out a little content sigh.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

After it finished we all just sat there in silence for at least five minutes.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

At that point she took hold of her grandmother’s hand and again they sat in silence, each now with her own thoughts.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

We sat in total silence and almost total darkness with 12 or so young people in one house, until our eyes could discern a faint rectangle of light at the far end of the long building, when at a given signal we all stood and walked towards the light, in another James Turrell adventure.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

They sat there in silence for awhile, until a creaking sound broke through the air as Shishido moved up to cuddle with Choutarou and Hika – chan.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

They sat in silence for a couple of minutes before Douglass asked?
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

They sat in silence again, but suddenly, Jeremy spoke up.
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Queried on 2013-06-19.