Example sentences of "[pron] sat in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , I sat in that room and saw this fantastic-looking man come through the door and I just did n't believe it . |
| 2 | I sat in many a night myself when you were all younger , waiting for that piss artist of a father of yours to come home , knowing in my heart that he was down the Bayswater Road , spending desperately needed money on old brasses . |
| 3 | Laura and I sat in tense silence , listening to the creak of the stairs . |
| 4 | They were still talking when I continued on my way back to my roomette where I sat in comfortable privacy for a while reading the timetable and also reflecting that although I still had no answers to the old questions , I now had a whole crop of new ones , the most urgent being whether or not Filmer had already known the Youngs were friends of Ezra Gideon . |
| 5 | He sat down and , thrusting his hands into his trouser pockets , stared coolly at the audience which sat in complete silence before him . |
| 6 | His father , who sat in nine Parliaments for Dorset or Weymouth , was prominent as an opponent of the court in the 1620s and as a Royalist in the civil war . |
| 7 | Except the O'Neil family in the first row of the circle , who sat in stupefied amazement , hardly believing what they had witnessed . |
| 8 | When most of the dancers had set off for home , and Lucy had given Josie reason to assume that she 'd done the same , she sat in one of the empty offices for a while and then returned to the wardrobe department . |
| 9 | After a moment 's hesitation she sat in one of the large armchairs , half expecting to be pushed on to the settee , but he allowed her to sit alone , only raising an eyebrow as he lowered himself into the matching chair . |
| 10 | Afterwards she sat in one of the chairs and lit a cigarette , still in the bathrobe ; Magill seemed to like his women never quite naked . |
| 11 | She sat in gloomy silence , pushing her food round her plate . |
| 12 | You sat in that same spot and I stood right here . |
| 13 | In the October heat haze we sat in stately convoy among huge 5-litre cars — all floating like ships becalmed at a docile 54mph . |
| 14 | We sat in adjacent chairs opposite him and he asked , ‘ Why are you here ? ’ |
| 15 | We sat in one of those lounges that are part of a huge bar area and the windows were misted up with condensation ; when you rubbed them you still could n't see much because of all the rain dripping down outside . |
| 16 | We sat in two old , well-upholstered armchairs . |
| 17 | And we sat in two rows and two horses pulling at us . |
| 18 | Karen and I were waiting here nobody invi we sat in all night and watched T V actually . |
| 19 | We sat in heavy silence for a long time . |
| 20 | Roy [ Jenkins ] ruminated : ‘ Your memory is better than mine , Prime Minister , but I believe it is ten years ago to this very day that we sat in this room discussing the Defence Review . |
| 21 | We sat in stubborn silence for a minute . |
| 22 | The room we sat in contained two television sets , two oak sideboards , slightly lower than the ceiling and four clocks all stopped at different times . |
| 23 | By custom they sat in private and not in court , and they were referred to as a domestic tribunal whatever part of their visitorial functions they were performing . |
| 24 | ‘ Look , ’ he would say as they sat in one of those cafes with the plate glass windows looking out on to the beach and the sea , ‘ there 's a rocker over there . |
| 25 | They sat in high-backed cane chairs on the terrace overlooking the sea . |
| 26 | There was an electric fire by the table and they sat in solemn rows in front of its glowing red bar , or wandered around the cramped office . |
| 27 | They sat in expectant darkness . |
| 28 | They sat in thick wickerwork chairs on an open balcony a top one of the older hotels , close to the floodlit shaft of the Washington Monument . |
| 29 | So they sat in tense silence together , reading . |
| 30 | They sat in embarrassed silence . |