Example sentences of "and sat [adv prt] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lindsey came on and sat in for a couple of numbers and really enjoyed being back on the boards with us lot . |
| 2 | I 've forgotten the last time we really enjoyed ourselves together and sat down to a meal uninterrupted by telephone calls . ’ |
| 3 | It was in the third week after Minch had gone that he had first noticed that one of the Men , older than the Keeper , regularly came to the benches that ranged along the path by the Cages , and sat down for a while . |
| 4 | Maxham removed an empty paint tin from the seat of the nearest armchair and sat down with a sigh of relief ‘ I 've got this verruca , ’ he confided . |
| 5 | She felt sick again , and sat down with a plonk . |
| 6 | She piled a week 's dirty clothes into the washing-machine , and sat down with a book . |
| 7 | He unclipped the empty drum and slammed on a full one , thrust the gun forward and sat down with a thud that shook the cockpit . |
| 8 | Miranda shook her head , and Madame blew her disgust through her teeth , and sat down with a magazine with a cover picture of the future Queen Fabiola of Belgium smiling on the arm of her optician 's pin-up of a fiancé . |
| 9 | ‘ I think I 'm going to vomit , ’ she muttered to no one in particular , and sat down with a plop on a new imitation Italian chair , which received her with a reedy groan . |
| 10 | Sir Ralph ( he had been knighted by Margaret Thatcher in 1980 for raising money from commerce and industry to finance the activities of Conservative Central Office when in Opposition ) bought a coffee and sat down at a corner table . |
| 11 | He had sighed , rubbed his hands together and sat down on a kitchen chair . |
| 12 | After settling her bill , she went for a walk through the hotel grounds , ending up beside a pretty little river meandering gently through a meadow , and sat down on a boulder , barely feeling the coolness of the air as she gazed into the silvery , rippling waters . |
| 13 | The chief disposed his attendants in a circle , and sat down on a hide spread for him . |
| 14 | Eventually we made our way back to the terrace and sat down on a bank . |
| 15 | So I really wanted to nail the bastard — preferably with the cooperation of my team-mates just to prove the point — but the fucking technology let me down and the gun jammed and he had me pinned , firing shot after shot at me , and finally I gave up trying to un-jam the gun and made to throw it at him though I could hardly see because there was yellow paint all over my visor , but he ducked and tripped and sat down on a trunk , holding his stomach , and the bastard was laughing his socks off because I looked like a giant dripping banana , only I 'd just realised the gun was n't jammed after all , the safety catch was on . |
| 16 | She followed him back into the little harness store and sat down on a bench while he lit the paraffin stove which soon filled the room with its smell and heat . |
| 17 | I handed him the scissors , put a towel round my shoulders , and sat down on a chair . |
| 18 | Lorimer sauntered across the room and sat down on a chair by the butler 's fire . |
| 19 | Jimmy gulped and sat down on a chair beside the bed almost as if he did n't trust his legs to support him . |
| 20 | The three prisoners walked slowly along the beach and sat down under a tree , not far from us . |
| 21 | I walked inside and sat down in a hall , whitewashed and cool with a red-tiled floor . |
| 22 | Fat Mrs Beatty entered and sat down in a corner beyond the screen . |
| 23 | CAPTAIN Mirko Pintar stormed out of the cockpit and sat down in a passenger seat . |