31.   The house sits on a small hill.

32.   The house sits on a rocky promontory overlooking the ocean.

33.   The house sits on four acres on the Hudson River in Columbia County, N.Y., about two hours north of Manhattan.

34.   The Georgian house sits on four acres on the Hudson River, in Columbia County, N.Y., about two hours north of Manhattan.

35.   The house sat on a dark terrace, actually a tarred plinth that kept the damp out.

36.   The plantation house sits directly on top of what was an Indian burial ground.

37.   The traditional auction houses are not sitting on their hands.

38.   To please her husband, they frequently rented houses in the summer in Westchester, and also sometimes house sat.

39.   Old wooden houses sit isolated on blocks that went high-rise years ago.

40.   The house sat alongside a four-lane road in a middle-class neighborhood of homes and businesses.