Example sentences of "[pron] sat with [art] " in BNC.

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1 I had my ideas worked out by the time I left for the 1960–61 Tasman series , and on the 24-hour flight to New Zealand I sat with a slide rule and drew the car as a pin-jointed structure , stressed it and arrived at all the tube sizes . ’
2 I sat with a tomato juice in front of me for some time straining my ears to hear what Nigel was saying .
3 I sat with a cup of coffee on my lap , still half-asphyxiated by what I took to be Neapolitan warmth .
4 I sat with a price list .
5 Once I sat with an American psychiatrist , a specialist in eating behaviour , and observed a hugely overweight couple ( quite unaware that we were watching them ) eating their restaurant breakfasts .
6 Four days on , I sat with the Sheikha 's brother , the boy 's uncle , on the bay-window couch .
7 She sat with a lame leg tucked under her .
8 As she sat with a whisky and waited for Constance 's call , she listened to the autumn wind tugging at the corners of the austere house .
9 She sat with a sigh on a black plastic mushroom by the bar .
10 She sat with the mother on the station side of the train .
11 She sat with the chicken pot in her lap , tearing off pieces of the bird and handing them round .
12 She sat with the blood thudding in her ears , just as it used to do when her mother began a tirade , and prayed for the impossible , for the carriage to be overturned , for it to be the wrong night , for her to develop a sudden and dangerous illness .
13 as she sat with the terracotta jar
14 And she sat with the
15 If you sat with a girl in rows A to F , you 'd just met .
16 Manager : We sat with the clinicians and said , look we 've got to identify the capital to do this properly and we drew up a clinic scheme and then we had to compromise on what they wanted and John at one stage said , " I 'm sorry , that is what you 're getting .
17 Whereas , if they were involved in the end where they sat with the form teacher
18 Uncle Ted had done absolutely nothing since the day Dad exorcized him as he sat with a record-player in his lap .
19 He sat with a frown of puzzlement on his forehead , then turned back to join again the talk around him .
20 Colonel Bauer , a German staff officer , wrote : ‘ He sat with a pallid face gazing at the map , dead to all feeling , a broken man . ’
21 He sat with a small radar screen in front of him , writing up the small strips that are used by controllers all over the world , strips that have all the different aircraft information on them .
22 At Belfast Crown Court , Corry admitted murdering Mr Magee as he sat with a pint , beside his pet dog , also killed , in the beer keg bomb blast .
23 He sat with a calculator .
24 In his spare time he sat with the Bookman in the spots of sun on the shelves or hunted for Mould to ask him if he could borrow some of his tools .
25 However , he sat with the right sort of expression on his face .
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