1.   A few minutes late, I slipped into the half-full auditorium, spotted Sergei near the back, and sat beside him.

2.   A huge fire was burning, and beside it sat Aunt Emily, dressed in heliotrope and a number of shawls.

3.   As the idea of Zeus became loftier, two August forms sat beside him in Olympus.

4.   Beside him sit the other island dignitaries, the representatives of each of the six communities into which the island is divided.

5.   Buckmaster sat beside him, staring at the bleak snowbound slopes of the moor.

6.   Deborah and I washed the dishes, then sat beside each other at the kitchen table, our legs almost touching.

7.   Five men in brown suits sat beside each other on a bench in front of the largest structure.

8.   For the rest of the short journey she sat beside him uneasily, no longer so taken with her surroundings.

9.   Gary, come sit beside me.

10.   Glenda sat beside the cradle, gently rocking it from side to side.