Example sentences of "i sat [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once I sat with an American psychiatrist , a specialist in eating behaviour , and observed a hugely overweight couple ( quite unaware that we were watching them ) eating their restaurant breakfasts . |
| 2 | I sat on a large stone , shivering and looked north appealingly , shouting , ‘ Mick ! |
| 3 | I sat on an upturned box , feeling the sweat beginning to trickle down my back . |
| 4 | Upstream , through the gorge known as the Wachau , runs one of the prettiest stretches of the river and I sat for a pleasant hour on its embankment watching the swallows skim its waters . |
| 5 | I sat for a long while , clutching the unfinished poem , gazing beyond it . |
| 6 | Afterwards I sat for a long time trying to reconcile myself to these new ideas . |
| 7 | I sat upon a disintegrating gravestone . |
| 8 | I sat beneath a metal-framed photograph ( black and white ) of fishing-boats at the Ile d'Oleron . |
| 9 | I laughed silently as I sat against a hard cushion in the palm-frond house looking at the brown eyes around me . |
| 10 | So with all this in mind , as I sat in a long queue of airmen for the preliminary examination , I was thankful . |
| 11 | I sat in a thirteenth-century hall in Bruges in September 1988 and listened to Mrs Thatcher 's speech on the future of Europe . |
| 12 | Gandalf says as much at II , 99 , though he is laconic about it — ‘ I sat in a high place ( the great tree in Lothlórien ? ] , and I strove with the Dark Tower ’ — since Aragorn and the others he is addressing can have no idea what is being referred to . |
| 13 | Last Sunday I sat in a cold room with my daughter , the two of us reviling the malign fate which had robbed us of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea , our weekly TV fix . |
| 14 | I sat in an open posture and avoided nervous mannerisms ( i.e. not with arms folded ) . |