Example sentences of "he sat [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a cold and damp winter , but he recovered slowly and indeed seemed cheerful ; he sat beside the open coal fire in the drawingroom and would sometimes sing music-hall ditties as his wife ministered to him — " coddling " , he used to call it . |
| 2 | When he came back in the evening he sat for a long time gazing out across the V-shaped valley leading south . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He sat as a Unionist councillor and , when the Unionist Party became dominated by powersharers , he moved to Vanguard , then to Baird 's United Ulster Unionist Party , and only switched to Paisley 's Democratic Unionist Party after the demise of the UUUP . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | For the next four years he sat as an engrossing clerk on a stool in the dusty office , so thick with dust that it entered the sunbeams ; and bent over crabbed writing in the books , or showed dull clients in to see his father , or sat the examinations , which he passed . |
| 7 | He sat on a small stone bench opposite the priest 's house , half dozing , still relishing the memory of his meeting with de Craon . |
| 8 | While Auntie Lou set out the food , he sat on a flat rock to recover and talked about the old days . |
| 9 | He sat on a huge leather chair with a sigh of relief and it was clear to Hari that his leg had been giving him trouble . |
| 10 | Fred would listen patiently until he could stand no more and then depart to the small back yard , where he sat on an upturned tea-chest and vowed that one day he would forget how efficient his kitchen hand was and just do away with her . |
| 11 | He sat on the low wall surrounding the pier gardens . |
| 12 | He sat on the wooden chair in the corner and looked at Lambert as if he were a self-confessed criminal . |
| 13 | He sat on the chintz-covered couch to the side of the fireplace and , leaning his head back , looked about him . |
| 14 | Back in the room , he made her kneel before him , as he sat on the upright chair . |
| 15 | He would catch the bus to Piccadilly Circus — he sat on the top deck and worked on the crossword before turning to the company reports in The Times . |
| 16 | He sat on the top step , raised the automatic with both hands and aimed it at the arm that was writhing in the aperture below . |
| 17 | He sat on the big table in the mess , one bare foot tucked up , and cut his yellow toe-nails with heavy scissors . |
| 18 | ‘ But I think it is a pointless exercise , ’ said Floy , somewhere towards morning , a thin , cold light filtering in through the windows to where he sat at a great desk , his black hair tumbled , hollows in his cheeks , his face white with fatigue . |
| 19 | He sat at a makeshift desk of unfinished lumber , and wrote and played with his thinning hair . |
| 20 | He sat at a large desk covered with papers , journals , medical books , a portable typewriter pushed to one end . |
| 21 | He sat with a small radar screen in front of him , writing up the small strips that are used by controllers all over the world , strips that have all the different aircraft information on them . |
| 22 | Colonel Bauer , a German staff officer , wrote : ‘ He sat with a pallid face gazing at the map , dead to all feeling , a broken man . ’ |
| 23 | However , he sat with the right sort of expression on his face . |
| 24 | He sat behind a big table with a television , three computers and five telephones . |
| 25 | He sat behind the big desk , and Jill the secretary sat at her table opposite him across the room . |
| 26 | He sat in a rocking chair that faced the door . |
| 27 | He sat in an old deck chair and the two girls sat on the ground , each leaning against one of his legs . |
| 28 | Lucas had been relieved of belt , tie , shoelaces , and everything in his pockets , and now he sat in the far corner on the mattress with his knees drawn up and his arms clasped around them , as if to present the smallest possible outer surface to the world . |
| 29 | From 1661 he sat in the Cavalier Parliament for Dorset , and was in opposition under both the administration of Edward Hyde , Earl of Clarendon [ q.v. ] and , after 1667 , the Cabal , in which his local rival , Anthony Ashley Cooper ( later first Earl of Shaftesbury , q.v. ) , held high office ; but his stalwart churchmanship brought him an honorary DCL from his old university in 1665 . |
| 30 | He sat in the low chair with his head bowed , looking for all the world like a genius deep in contemplation , though in fact he was fast asleep . |