Example sentences of "[pron] sat [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During his three years at University College , London , he got work each Christmas with the post office in his home town of Woking : ‘ When I was coming to the end of my university period I sat a civil service examination with possible jobs at the end which included income tax , the secret service and the post office which involved travelling as a management trainee . |
| 2 | I do n't think er , I do n't think you do do work , enough work , either of you really I mean if I sat an eleven plus today , by what , if they ever brought it back , it 'll be a lot different than what it was then |
| 3 | However , there was no computer system to manage the exercise — when the nav wanted a position line or fix he pre-warned the instructor , who sat the other side of the ‘ cockpit ’ facia , and at the appropriate time a piece of paper was pushed through the wall with the details scrawled upon it ! |
| 4 | She sat a long time by herself , looking at the forsythia . |
| 5 | In 1920 she sat the competitive examination to enter the International Labour Office in Geneva and joined its agricultural service . |
| 6 | well I mean if you 've been in , you sat the opposite way |
| 7 | Next the wife came to the second cavern , where there sat a fearsome bird , large as a mountain ; her feathers were of brass and her beak of iron . |
| 8 | There sat the poor thing with its windscreen smashed , its bonnet concertinered and the engine block on the front seat . |
| 9 | And on they travelled through the forest until they came to a place where the roads crossed and there sat an old woman resting on a stone . |
| 10 | Either side of him sat a large , so lid man : one caught Marcus 's eye and he began an earnest inspection of the floor . |
| 11 | At the controls sat a youngish man in no sort of uniform , and beside him sat an older man in cleanish overalls with grease on his fingers . |
| 12 | Beside her sat a tousled youth , enveloped in a woolly scarf . |
| 13 | But seated half-way down one side of the table and with no one opposite her sat an old lady . |
| 14 | Between us and the stairs was the desk , and behind it sat a fiftyish thin man with a lined but peaceful face . |
| 15 | In it sat a tiny beetle wearing goggles . |
| 16 | There were screens around her bed , and beside it sat the young Sub-lieutenant , almost as motionless as the form under the sheets , staring earnestly at the bandaged head and the small white face . |
| 17 | There the bailiffs pushed and shoved me through a porticoed entrance , down a long , dark , musty passageway into the main well of the court , fastening me to the bar ; beyond it sat the three magistrates before a square table ringed by clerks . |
| 18 | In front of me sat the smartest and most alert looking person I had ever seen in my life . |