Example sentences of "sat [adv] in a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her hair , glowing like a brazier through the early-morning mist , her high boots and her cream-coloured quilted jacket with its exaggerated shoulders , had drawn his gaze as he sat impatiently in a line of cars while the pickets argued with the driver of an articulated wagon that was trying to enter the University . |
| 2 | Fat Mrs Beatty entered and sat down in a corner beyond the screen . |
| 3 | Tammuz sat down in a chair opposite her and picked up a pen to fiddle with . |
| 4 | She sat down in a chair by the hearth . |
| 5 | She sat down in a chair by a table and as she had done once in Michael Swinton 's kitchen , put her head down on her folded arms and burst into tears of passionate gratitude . |
| 6 | He went back into the church , sat down in a chair in front of a statue of the Virgin . |
| 7 | Northam 's poet sat glumly in a corner with a plateful and a pint and watched with silent outrage , as was his way . |
| 8 | Northam 's elderly historian and honorary ideologue sat glumly in a corner with a plateful and a pint , and watched with silent outrage , as was his way . |
| 9 | She sat up in a kind of horror , her feelings filling her up with shame . |
| 10 | I sat silently in a chair by the fire , not moving , getting stiffer and stiffer , and yet not moving . |
| 11 | Putting his glass down on the low coffee-table , Ashley sat quietly in a corner of the sofa . |