Example sentences of "he sat [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a cold and damp winter , but he recovered slowly and indeed seemed cheerful ; he sat beside the open coal fire in the drawingroom and would sometimes sing music-hall ditties as his wife ministered to him — " coddling " , he used to call it . |
| 2 | He sat on the low wall surrounding the pier gardens . |
| 3 | He sat on the wooden chair in the corner and looked at Lambert as if he were a self-confessed criminal . |
| 4 | He sat on the chintz-covered couch to the side of the fireplace and , leaning his head back , looked about him . |
| 5 | Back in the room , he made her kneel before him , as he sat on the upright chair . |
| 6 | He would catch the bus to Piccadilly Circus — he sat on the top deck and worked on the crossword before turning to the company reports in The Times . |
| 7 | He sat on the top step , raised the automatic with both hands and aimed it at the arm that was writhing in the aperture below . |
| 8 | He sat on the big table in the mess , one bare foot tucked up , and cut his yellow toe-nails with heavy scissors . |
| 9 | However , he sat with the right sort of expression on his face . |
| 10 | He sat behind the big desk , and Jill the secretary sat at her table opposite him across the room . |
| 11 | Lucas had been relieved of belt , tie , shoelaces , and everything in his pockets , and now he sat in the far corner on the mattress with his knees drawn up and his arms clasped around them , as if to present the smallest possible outer surface to the world . |
| 12 | From 1661 he sat in the Cavalier Parliament for Dorset , and was in opposition under both the administration of Edward Hyde , Earl of Clarendon [ q.v. ] and , after 1667 , the Cabal , in which his local rival , Anthony Ashley Cooper ( later first Earl of Shaftesbury , q.v. ) , held high office ; but his stalwart churchmanship brought him an honorary DCL from his old university in 1665 . |
| 13 | He sat in the low chair with his head bowed , looking for all the world like a genius deep in contemplation , though in fact he was fast asleep . |
| 14 | He sat in the broad circle of young journalists in Mother Bunch 's Wine House and , with the rest of them , sank glass after glass of red wine . |
| 15 | During the service he sat in the front pew and listened to the preacher talking about the kind of woman she had been , and he knew it was n't like that , but the doctor had given some pills and he felt drowsy and numb , and illogically cheerful , as if he was slightly drunk , but at the stage where everything seems enlarged and unfamiliar . |
| 16 | He sat in the back garden with it , obscured from the windows of the lounge ( where his parents and our father sat ) by the washing blowing in the breeze ; he lit the ‘ thrower and sprayed our two hutches with flame , incinerating all our beauties . |
| 17 | He sat in the drab office , aching . |
| 18 | But now it was all over and he sat in the big armchair as dawn lightened the front windows and gave thanks , with a cup of coffee , to the Child of Prague high on the opposite wall . |
| 19 | He sat in the restored Rump in 1659 , but never regained his earlier predominance in the county . |
| 20 | He sat in the 1835–7 Parliament as member for Harwich and assistant whip , losing his seat at the next general election . |
| 21 | Nathan waited patiently for the remissions which made it possible for the ruined mind to function for a time ; he sat by the sick man , who by now was almost blind ; the paralysis was , after all , general . |