Example sentences of "[pron] sat like a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sat like a Hector until I suddenly remembered my stomach and began noisily to vomit . |
| 2 | She sat like a small spruce viper , neatly coiled opposite him . |
| 3 | Great-aunts were sometimes significant : a Scots farmer 's old sister , ‘ very straightlaced … you sat like a mouse ; ’ or the great-aunt of a Portsmouth docker 's daughter , ‘ an old , old lady ’ , who liked to celebrate receiving her weekly pension — ‘ Every weekend , pension day , she had a wee brown jug and she used to send me up the beer shop to get half pint o'stout . |
| 4 | He sat like a man stunned by the sudden news of death . |
| 5 | He placed it on a bale of straw and pulled up an upturned bucket as a chair before hopping on to a meal bin where he sat like a pixie on a toadstool with his arms around his knees , regarding me with keen anticipation . |
| 6 | He sat like a woman and talked like one , sending coy glances at all of us . |