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 ‘ Jenny and I sat up until the early hours chatting . ’
4 I sat unhappily in the empty church with two lines of thought .
5 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 .
6 I sat down to a great Conservative cheer and then Michael Meacher had his opportunity .
7 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 .
8 I sat down at the little table , as well I might .
9 I sat down on the only patch of turf
10 I sat down on the wooden bed .
11 I sat down with the Financial Times and tried to count how many people were actually smoking underneath no-smoking signs .
12 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 .
13 With a second cup in my hand , I sat down in an upright chair opposite my hostess .
14 I sat down in the long grass , puzzled to understand my weakness .
15 So I sat down in the warm , and ate the man 's breakfast .
16 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 .
17 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 .
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