Example sentences of "sat [adv] in the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She sat humbly in the cold church , making some effort to get into the right mood for the service . |
| 2 | I sat unhappily in the empty church with two lines of thought . |
| 3 | ‘ He 's a very able sorcerer , ’ said Fribble , as they sat together in the banqueting hall . |
| 4 | Taking a deep breath , he walked slowly across the room and sat down in the easy chair directly facing his mother . |
| 5 | I sat down in the long grass , puzzled to understand my weakness . |
| 6 | I closed the door and sat down in the one chair this side of his desk . |
| 7 | Roger sat down in the high-backed armchair opposite her and smiled at her . |
| 8 | Then he sat down in the great oak chair by the fire and enjoyed his tea . |
| 9 | Then they sat down in the great dining hall to drink . |
| 10 | Christina sat down in the small desk chair , her legs unsteady . |
| 11 | He put the machine on the round table in front of the sofa , plugged it into a socket and sat down in the nearest armchair . |
| 12 | A shaken Charles followed the line of the bullet and sat down in the nearest chair . |
| 13 | He grunted with annoyance and sat down in the sparse grass with his back to the worn stone and let the meagre sun warm him . |
| 14 | He sat down in the big easy-chair beside the kitchen range , took me on his knee and read me a story . |
| 15 | ‘ Because one thing 's for certain , Charlie Trumper , ’ she told him as they sat down in the little room at the back of Salmon 's to check the monthly accounts , ‘ you do n't know the first thing about butchery . |
| 16 | At 9 p.m. the women sat down in the common room and said they were n't going to bed until the heating was fixed . |
| 17 | Nails , without thinking , sat down in the comfortable straw and talked to the mare , leaning his head against the refrigerator wall . |
| 18 | What are you doing sat up in the high chair ? |
| 19 | After a moment , she sat up in the cluttered bed and regarded him in mock annoyance . |
| 20 | She sat back in the white plastic chair , fanning herself with her napkin . |
| 21 | ‘ Rachel Flint , ’ Damian murmured , eyes narrowed as he sat back in the white limousine , watching her . |
| 22 | Katherine blurted out the memorized address and sat back in the comfortable warmth of the car . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . |
| 24 | Katherine Lundy sat back in the darkened sitting room , her eyes on the deep red glow from the fire , the only sound the soft hissing of the burning coal and the solemn ticking of the clock . |
| 25 | Generally the passengers camped and sat out in the open air . |
| 26 | You do , sat here in the bloody chair and gone ee ee |
| 27 | Rakovsky was thinking of them as he sat there in the borrowed office in Berlin . |
| 28 | He often sat there in the early evening to read a book or map . |
| 29 | Indeed , I sat there in the muggy warmth until the balding , bull-necked scruff of a proprietor or manager started to put the chairs upside down on the swabbed tables — a peculiar custom which is surely unhygienic enough to be banned by law . |
| 30 | That night the adults sat round in the front room , among the Christmas lilies and gladioli in the last of the evening sun and talked after supper . |