Example sentences of "they sat [prep] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They sat at the great wooden table , drinking a little water out of earthenware bowls , chewing cactus . |
| 2 | ‘ They kept the fighting till later when they sat on the management-union joint negotiation committee . |
| 3 | It was Paula 's job to show samples , parading slowly up and down in front of the clients as they sat on the elegant spindle-leg chairs taking in every detail of the garments with a critical and practised eye . |
| 4 | Leary poured coffee into wide china cups and they sat around the rough wooden kitchen table and drank . |
| 5 | Piggy-wig was in the kitchen , Dionne opened a bottle of white wine and they sat in the elegant grey-blue lounge . |
| 6 | They sat in the cold front room , not daring to light a fire in the strange house . |