Example sentences of "he sat [adv prt] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He sat up immediately in the bed to listen . |
| 2 | He sat down again on the very edge of the chair and they drank the tea in silence . |
| 3 | Then he sat down again on the golden stool which had been placed on the balcony of the chamber . |
| 4 | He sat down again on the stool opposite his former student . |
| 5 | When he sat down again after the election to resume his theoretical work , The Treatise on Money , he found that his theory had changed . |
| 6 | His voice tailed off and he sat down heavily on the arm of a chair . |
| 7 | She was conscious of fitzAlan 's sharp glance at her sudden murmur of laughter , then he sat down heavily on the bench , wincing at the jolt to his arm , and gestured towards the bulky pack by the door . |
| 8 | ‘ Dear boy ! ’ he said , putting his hand on my shoulder as he sat down heavily in the boat . |
| 9 | Gazzer 's legs went and he sat down heavily in the dirt , his nose smashed and his eyes full of tears . |
| 10 | He sat down silently on the floor against one of the chairs . |
| 11 | This time when he came back in to see her , the air was darkest around his form , but when he grinned over the noise of the men in the room behind the door — a woman 's laugh punctured the air beyond — and he sat down peaceably at the foot of her bed , the blue paled to a translucence like a robin 's egg . |
| 12 | He sat down now in the hide and put the helmet on . |