Example sentences of "i sat [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sat outside beneath the upturned colander of the night sky until Dennis 's snores had settled into a consistent rhythm , then made my way inside the house and across the living area to the door behind which Karen lay naked . |
| 2 | When I arrived at the Demob Centre , I sat around in a bare hall for what seemed like a couple of hours , with two or three hundred other Waafs , and we stared at each other without interest . |
| 3 | I sat up for the next few nights , my head poking out of the back skylight of the loft , my ears straining for the tinkle of glass breaking or muffled curses , or the more usual signal of the birds being disturbed and taking flight , but nothing more happened . |
| 4 | ‘ Jenny and I sat up until the early hours chatting . ’ |
| 5 | I sat unhappily in the empty church with two lines of thought . |
| 6 | For a long time I sat out on the crumbling turf , with the blue distances below , and warm sun lying over this lovely autumn land . |
| 7 | I sat down to a great Conservative cheer and then Michael Meacher had his opportunity . |
| 8 | In the shopping centre , I was gratified to see my name up on the Day 's Attractions board , and I sat down at a prepared place by the side of the stage . |
| 9 | I sat down at the little table , as well I might . |
| 10 | I sat down on the only patch of turf |
| 11 | I sat down on the wooden bed . |
| 12 | I sat down with the Financial Times and tried to count how many people were actually smoking underneath no-smoking signs . |
| 13 | After a while I sat down in a secret place by the Cherwell and fell to musing about how I had once myself aspired to Oxford , how one of my lecturers at Edinburgh had urged me to go on to read for a B.Litt. there , but of course the war had put an end to any such ambitions . |
| 14 | With a second cup in my hand , I sat down in an upright chair opposite my hostess . |
| 15 | I sat down in the long grass , puzzled to understand my weakness . |
| 16 | So I sat down in the warm , and ate the man 's breakfast . |
| 17 | Way back in 1957 I had talked my boss into allowing me to learn to fly helicopters with the British European Airways Helicopter Unit at Gatwick and in 1960 I sat in on the first ground school course BOAC conducted for their senior captains converting to the first Boeing 707s . |
| 18 | Indeed , I sat there in the muggy warmth until the balding , bull-necked scruff of a proprietor or manager started to put the chairs upside down on the swabbed tables — a peculiar custom which is surely unhygienic enough to be banned by law . |
| 19 | I sat numbly by the open window , with my legs pressed together , my arms hugging my sides and my hands gripping each other , to combat the sensation that I was going to shake myself to pieces . |