Example sentences of "and [pron] sat [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was drinking Monk and Monk was a heavy beer so fuck I gets out of the car and fucking oh fuck , but anyway said to me look I 'll go up , say my name , and I 'll bring you home , I was living with my sister at the time and I sat on a wee low wall , I 'm just the wall , fu fuck I , in the middle of the day , nobody , they were just drinking er Dawn this is way were , it 's fucking maybe twenty five years ago , twenty six and er fuck he sat me on the wall he had to s I could n't see he says to me er fucking I heard a voice , Raymond like this is the exam tonight you 'll have to sit there . |
| 2 | Well , it was only a bedsitter and Andrea and I sat on the one divan having a smoke and a glass of the fizzy stuff I always brought her , and I said , ‘ What about slipping between the sheets ’ ? ’ |
| 3 | Upstream , through the gorge known as the Wachau , runs one of the prettiest stretches of the river and I sat for a pleasant hour on its embankment watching the swallows skim its waters . |
| 4 | Simon , his wife Nancy , Jack and I sat through the first act of the sold-out play . |
| 5 | Henniker moved a chair for her , and she sat on the extreme edge of it . |
| 6 | Joe made room for me with the same amount of good grace he might have afforded an enemy invading his castle and we sat for a few minutes without speaking , inspecting the view . |
| 7 | Once I went down with Jane to the village pub and we sat in the front parlour on our own , listening to what seemed to be a male voice choir performing in the next room , accompanied by mysterious foot shufflings and stampings . |
| 8 | It was common practice for families to attend evening service and we sat in the same pew each week , about half way back in the north aisle . |
| 9 | Wycliffe took the sergeant to lunch at his hotel and they sat by the great window overlooking the sea , which still sparkled in the sun . |
| 10 | Piggy-wig was in the kitchen , Dionne opened a bottle of white wine and they sat in the elegant grey-blue lounge . |
| 11 | Leary poured coffee into wide china cups and they sat around the rough wooden kitchen table and drank . |
| 12 | When arrangements were made in the summer of 1278 to establish two permanent circuits of the general eyre he was one of the justices appointed to the ‘ northern ’ circuit and he sat as a junior justice in every eyre of that circuit down to 1288 . |
| 13 | And he sat for a long time in a melancholy reverie as the ants continued to drift down , thinking of the futility of all endeavour . |
| 14 | But now it was all over and he sat in the big armchair as dawn lightened the front windows and gave thanks , with a cup of coffee , to the Child of Prague high on the opposite wall . |
| 15 | And it sat at the other side of the gate |