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Example sentences of "sat [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] and " in BNC.

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1	He sat as a Unionist councillor and , when the Unionist Party became dominated by powersharers , he moved to Vanguard , then to Baird 's United Ulster Unionist Party , and only switched to Paisley 's Democratic Unionist Party after the demise of the UUUP .
2	Blackadder sat amongst the apparent chaos and actual order of his great edition , sifting a drift of small paper slips in a valley between cliffs of furred-edged index cards and bulging mottled files .
3	One of the things that some chaps found amusing when they went to the " heads " ( the head is what the Navy calls the loo ) , you sat in a long row and a great flush of water ran right through a row of 20 or 30 .
4	So to while away the time while they waited for dark again they sat in a back room and fiished the waistcoat .
5	I sat in the still shadows and listened to the water bubbling in a ditch beyond the wall .
6	Her face flushed and she turned almost desperately to Marguerite as they sat in the small gold and white salon waiting for their refreshments .
7	Often this was reflected in the village church , where the old sat in the best seats and the young at the back .
8	Maisie and Joan , who collected catkins in the woods with me ; Lucy , who was always polite and a beautiful writer ; three very naughty boys who sat in the front row and made a nuisance of themselves : every teacher has memories like these .
9	During the service he sat in the front pew and listened to the preacher talking about the kind of woman she had been , and he knew it was n't like that , but the doctor had given some pills and he felt drowsy and numb , and illogically cheerful , as if he was slightly drunk , but at the stage where everything seems enlarged and unfamiliar .
10	A number of respondents commented on the lack of stimulation : ‘ They sat in the front room and did n't move .
11	So there 's me like I 'm sat in first lesson we have P E last lesson sat in the first lesson and I 'm th , I 've thought God my bra strap feels really lose !
12	Jacob sat in the plush chair and stared directly ahead .
13	We sat in the open-sided restaurant and saw forest all around .
14	I sat in an open posture and avoided nervous mannerisms ( i.e. not with arms folded ) .
15	It began to get quite hot so we sat on a mossy bank and shared an orange .
16	At the police station Rita sat on a wooden bench and answered questions .
17	Hercule Poirot sat on the white sand and looked out across the sparkling blue water .
18	He would catch the bus to Piccadilly Circus — he sat on the top deck and worked on the crossword before turning to the company reports in The Times .
19	She sat on the opposite couchette and picked up the paperback he had been reading .
20	Fred would listen patiently until he could stand no more and then depart to the small back yard , where he sat on an upturned tea-chest and vowed that one day he would forget how efficient his kitchen hand was and just do away with her .
21	But although he might not be bright , Balor 's head was on a level with Floy and Snodgrass as they sat astride the two horses and he was twice the size of either of them .
22	Robert sat at a vacant space and put his head in his hands .
23	We sat at a special table and just told jokes about the Russians , the Americans , and ourselves . ’
24	‘ Come and have a drink , ’ said Cormack , and they moved into the bar and sat at the fixed tables and watched the glasses slide from rim to rim .
25	I sat at the open window and looked out on to the purple dark .
26	Emily sat at the scrubbed table and the startled look on Letty 's face made her smile ruefully .
27	For the first time ever , the Heads of State and Government of the United States , Russia , China , France and Britain sat around the same table and pledged themselves , with the other members of the council , to collective security , to international law and to our commitments under the United Nations ' charter .