51.   To sit beside us, spreading unconcern,

52.   Sitting beside Carmichael in the back of his white Mercedes, I pretend that I am comfortable.

53.   I go and sit beside him on his boxes and feel much the same as he does.

54.   Laura turned to grin at the small dark-haired girl sitting beside her desk.

55.   Almost dancing on air, Laura had barely come down to earth when she found herself sitting beside him in a small riverside restaurant.

56.   The phone rang at the other end, and was answered immediately, as though she had been sitting beside it, waiting.

57.   Too tense to speak, Juliet sat beside him.

58.   He put her down on the bed, and, removing the crutch from her nerveless hand, tossed it into the corner, before sitting beside her.

59.   Sit beside me, and tell me everything.

60.   He paused a moment, his eyes locking with hers, before he came to sit beside her.