Example sentences of "he sat [prep] the [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He sat on the cutting machine and and then as it come on to the Ah but what do you call the long thing ? |
| 2 | As he sat on the mud floor of his cell , disdaining the bed , he said that he would do exactly the same again . |
| 3 | He sat on the examination table in his underpants , and I noticed how desperately thin he was getting . |
| 4 | When she 'd finished he sat at the kitchen table , watching her getting his tea ready , brooding . |
| 5 | Now he sat at the kitchen table with the worm-cake before him and the taste of nausea already on his tongue . |
| 6 | He sat at the kitchen table . |
| 7 | Bleakly , he sat at the kitchen table eating spaghetti bolognaise out of a tin . |
| 8 | As the first years passed , and the courses of lectures did not have to be prepared out of nothing , he sat at the bay window in the sub-warden 's study , looking out towards the cathedral , and started to write his first book . |
| 9 | The mail arrived early and he opened his letters as he sat at the breakfast table . |
| 10 | As he had so often done during the Civil War , he sat behind the battle lines , watching through his binoculars as the two sides fought it out . |
| 11 | He sat in the hotel bedroom all weekend with Sam , played games with him , ate meat pies and children 's gob-stoppers cheaply out of paper bags and gorged on the all-in breakfast . |
| 12 | So he , he sat in the mess room there and checked his box against the tickets which were shown on the waybill . |
| 13 | He sat in the fireside chair . |
| 14 | He went silent and dark and withdrew into himself , the two thumbs rotating about one another as he sat in the car chair by the fire . |
| 15 | As he sat by the fire softening potatoes between his gums , he felt pleased with himself . |