The doctor asked him to sit upright for a while to make sure he felt okay.

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Once it circulated for 10 minutes, I was asked to sit upright inside a circular, open capsule for a Cardiac Computed Tomography (CT) scan.

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The more traditional method of measuring hearing loss, the distraction test, requires a baby to sit upright on the mother's lap, responding to sound without seeing the source, and therefore cannot be done before 8 months.

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Specifying the design of a wine cooler for his claret and port, the founding father said the bottles had to sit upright rather than at angles, the neck of the decanters needed to rise above the cooler rim and there had to be room at the bottom of the bowl so the bottles would sit above the ice.

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Sometimes when Magda comes out onto the steps and speaks, I sit bolt upright in bed.

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