Example sentences of "he sat [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Rakovsky was thinking of them as he sat there in the borrowed office in Berlin .
2 He sat back with a satisfied grin and looked contently around the open-plan hygienic nonentity of his executive sitting room in his executive house on an executive estate in Pangbourne .
3 ‘ Rachel Flint , ’ Damian murmured , eyes narrowed as he sat back in the white limousine , watching her .
4 He sat down at the far end of the table .
5 He sat down at the old table by the window and put a new sheet of paper into the typewriter .
6 He sat down on a tiny painted nursery chair beside the bed .
7 He sat down on a small bedside chair , leaving Culley and Dawson no other option than to sit on the bed , which they did , side by side , like travellers on a train .
8 He sat down on a hard kitchen chair and stared hopefully up at Coffin .
9 He sat down on a white , tulip-shaped chair .
10 He sat down on the far side of the room and I caught only a brief view of him through the dancers , but it was undoubtedly Ralph Pike still at large .
11 He sat down on the bare rock and shook his head .
12 ‘ I did n't know you were home , ’ said Terry , as he sat down on the adjacent bed .
13 He sat down on the top step of the landing outside numbers 3 and 4 .
14 Tired of it all , he sat down on the thin , wet , short grass .
15 He sat down on the wooden chair and I sat on the bed .
16 Willie Learmouth the session clerk came by today for the Intimations and he 's an awful nice man , one of Nature 's Gentlemen , went to Allan Glen 's when that meant something , his wife 's got a plastic hip but you never hear him complain , anyway he sat down to a wee cup of tea and naturally he could not resist my all butter shortbread ‘ Nettie , ’ says he , ‘ your petticoat tails would melt in a man 's mouth . ’
17 He sat down beside the uniformed girl who introduced herself as Elsa from Hamburg .
18 He sat down in a vacant chair and at once the younger cadet hurried to serve him with tea from a spotless samovar .
19 Then he sat down in the great oak chair by the fire and enjoyed his tea .
20 He sat down in the big easy-chair beside the kitchen range , took me on his knee and read me a story .
21 He sat opposite to the chief inspector and Dexter , behind a narrow wooden table , hands gesticulating , with the face of a bridge player .
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