Example sentences of "[noun sg] sat on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But not everyone ; a young soldier and his girlfriend sat on the balustrade , dangling their legs over the water , oblivious of anyone else . |
| 2 | The boy sat on the floor beside her , carving a piece of balsa wood . |
| 3 | ‘ My delivery boy sat on the bacon slicer this morning , ’ said the grocer . |
| 4 | The boy sat on the edge of the bed . |
| 5 | Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall , Humpty Dumpty had a great fall all the king 's horses and all the king 's men could n't put Humpty together again |
| 6 | Yeah Humpty dumpty sat on the wall , humpty dumpty had a great fall , all the king 's horses and all the king 's men could n't put humpty together again |
| 7 | A cut glass tumbler sat on the coffee table beside a bottle of gin and a bottle of tonic water . |
| 8 | Nana sat on the left side , four rows from the front . |
| 9 | Then the animals came closer with their warm , milky breaths that smelled sweetly of hay and the summer , and their mild comforting gaze that was not human , and the dog lay with his heavy head on the tailor 's foot , and the brindled cat sat on the arm of his chair . |
| 10 | while , of course , the cat sat on the mat . |
| 11 | ‘ CT ST N T MT , ’ will soon be exposed by crossword buffs as ‘ The cat sat on the mat , ’ but place names are not so easily guessed by context . |
| 12 | If the foregoing suggests the activity of experienced adult readers , let us look at that most basic , apparently neutral , and certainly most mundane , of sentences : ‘ The cat sat on the mat ’ . |
| 13 | A black female cat sat on the floor while her three kittens squealed in the bath , said Mr Owens . |
| 14 | Thus , the meaning of The cat sat on the mat is ‘ the ’ + ‘ cat ’ + ‘ sat ’ + ‘ on ’ + ‘ the ’ + ‘ mat ’ , combined in the ways signalled by the syntactic structure , which tells us , for instance , that ‘ on ’ goes with ‘ the mat ’ , rather than with ‘ the cat ’ , and so on . |
| 15 | Thus on the mat is a semantic constituent of the cat sat on the mat , but not a minimal one , as it ultimately divides further into the , on and mat ; the latter , on the other hand , are incapable of further subdivision , and are therefore minimal semantic constituents . |
| 16 | Suppose we take our previous sentence The cat sat on the mat and substitute for one of its constituent parts , cat , a different , but syntactically identical , element such as dog . |
| 17 | This test precisely locates the form responsible for a given meaning , and at the same time ensures that its role is that of a semantic constituent ; from 6 we can therefore conclude that cat is a semantic constituent of The cat sat on the mat . |
| 18 | The result is certainly a change of meaning : The cat sat on the moss ; but in this case it is impossible to find a different sentence in which the same substitution of forms produces a parallel change of meaning . |
| 19 | The cat sat on the mat . |
| 20 | Hence such processing would prefer combinations of the form the cat sat on the mat to cat mat on sat the the . |
| 21 | Her sewing basket sat on the kitchen table where she had left it , after lunch . |
| 22 | I incurred his displeasure on one occasion , there was a young lady sat on the form in front , we had those , where you sat in pairs , on the iron sort of things . |
| 23 | IN my local high street recently a huge builder 's skip sat on the road outside a shop for two weeks . |
| 24 | Further down the street , at the former Panama Defence Force police station , five Panamanian prisoners of war sat on the steep steps , bordered by hibiscus bushes . |
| 25 | Barnes and his team sat on the stage amid the gold and maroon decorations and with their tables theatrically draped in material to hide their legs . |
| 26 | When the hon. Gentleman sat on the Standing Committee on the Bill he did not vote on any single occasion against the precise measures to which he now refers . |
| 27 | His friend 's wife sat on the sofa . |
| 28 | The video sat on the floor and a tape was in the machine . |
| 29 | The policeman sat on the tailboard and shone the torch into the covered area , at the same time wheezing and catching his breath . |
| 30 | That night her father sat on the edge of her bed and stroked her hair , as if she were still a little girl . |