Example sentences of "she sat [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a moment , she sat up in the cluttered bed and regarded him in mock annoyance . |
| 2 | Her pulse rate had slowed to somewhere near normal ; she sat back in the creaking wooden chair in a deliberate effort to appear relaxed , and returned his smile . |
| 3 | She sat back in the white plastic chair , fanning herself with her napkin . |
| 4 | ‘ You promise ? ’ mother said , a slight stitching of her brows as she sat back in the ladder-backed seat the only indication that she might not entirely believe me . |
| 5 | She sat back in the large , embracing armchair and took another mouthful of the splendid Spanish omelette . |
| 6 | She sat down on a modern sofa in cream and chrome and surveyed the room . |
| 7 | She sat down on the low wall . |
| 8 | She sat down on the battered settle and opened the letter . |
| 9 | She sat down on the other side of the desk . |
| 10 | Placing the night-light against the wall she sat down on the top stair , humping the eiderdown high over her shoulders and gazing into the darkness . |
| 11 | Once in her suite of rooms she sat down at a little Louis Quinze escritoire , its pale grey panels painted with carnations and pinks , and wrote a short letter to her faithless lover , asking him to call on her urgently at the embassy at eleven the next morning . |
| 12 | She was too to enjoy the hot weather and little beads of perspiration shone on her forehead as she sat down at the big desk opposite the row of girls . |
| 13 | Then the Birmingham Small Arms Company revealed after many a summer that the car she sat in like a burnished throne , and even some of the furs she wore , were not provided by her Prince Charming , Sir Bernard , but by them , the nuts and bolts firm of which he was chairman , as a business expense which they were no longer happy to provide . |