It would devastate him if he had to sit on the bench next season.

BBC: Roberto Mancini hints at Joe Hart return to Man City

Blues hooker T Rhys Thomas will sit on the bench at Loftus Versfeld, having been called up this week for Rees, who injured his calf in the Bloemfontein mauling.

BBC: Hook & Roberts switch Wales roles

Steven Whittaker occupied Smith's usual left-back position in the absence of Sasa Papac, while the veteran Christian Dailly was on the right and Andy Webster came in from the cold to sit on the bench.

BBC: Rangers 3-1 Motherwell

Though other reasons contributed -- Robinho didn't want to sit on the bench at Manchester City and risk missing the World Cup finals, while Adriano used his move to Flamengo to successfully put his career back on track -- but Brazil's new money still made such moves possible.

CNN: Soccer stars return to booming Brazil

"It was built around a tree and a bench, so you could sit inside on the bench or stand up, " he said.

WSJ: Ivy Buried by Blizzard, Yale Cancels Class for Two Days

We sit on the worn gray wooden bench in the sun in front of a concrete work shack and talk.

NPR: Environmentalist John Francis, Walking the Walk

Lovers sit on a bench beside the monument and feel safe.

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She's regarded as one of the most conservative on the seven-member bench, and she is the first black woman to sit on that court.

NPR: Profile: Judge Janice Rogers Brown

At 18, she said she grabbed her phone, left her college dorm room and headed out in the cold to sit on a bench to talk with a worker on a crisis phone line she knew from one of her favorite blogs.

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