Example sentences of "[pers pn] sit [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 31 | I sat on a large stone , shivering and looked north appealingly , shouting , ‘ Mick ! |
| 32 | When I got to higher ground , I sat on a long , flat slab of white rock in a salmon-pink sea . |
| 33 | I sat on a log among the shadows of creatures now extinct and others long since departed for pasture in the south . |
| 34 | I sat on a committee chaired by Paul Fox , a big representative steering group for the Royal Television Society 's Biennial Cambridge Convention ( the only woman ) , which he had asked me to be on at that time . |
| 35 | I sat on a bench near the door , with my slate . |
| 36 | Perhaps he heard , I do n't know , but he did n't look up and I sat on a stool near the door until it was finished . |
| 37 | I was drinking Monk and Monk was a heavy beer so fuck I gets out of the car and fucking oh fuck , but anyway said to me look I 'll go up , say my name , and I 'll bring you home , I was living with my sister at the time and I sat on a wee low wall , I 'm just the wall , fu fuck I , in the middle of the day , nobody , they were just drinking er Dawn this is way were , it 's fucking maybe twenty five years ago , twenty six and er fuck he sat me on the wall he had to s I could n't see he says to me er fucking I heard a voice , Raymond like this is the exam tonight you 'll have to sit there . |
| 38 | I sat on an upturned box , feeling the sweat beginning to trickle down my back . |
| 39 | Afterwards I sat for a long time trying to reconcile myself to these new ideas . |
| 40 | I sat for a while thinking of what I 'd said and of what he 'd told me , and I still could n't believe that any of the people I 'd come to know so well was really a murderer . |
| 41 | Upstream , through the gorge known as the Wachau , runs one of the prettiest stretches of the river and I sat for a pleasant hour on its embankment watching the swallows skim its waters . |
| 42 | I sat for a while watching the scenery slide by , wild uninhabited stretches of green and autumn-blazing trees , grey rocks and blue lakes punctuated by tiny hamlets and lonely houses , all vivid in the afternoon sunshine , a panoramic impression of the vastness of Canada and the smallness of her population . |
| 43 | After the girls had gone I sat for a little time , thinking . |
| 44 | I sat for a while holding the baby under my hands . |
| 45 | I sat for a long while , clutching the unfinished poem , gazing beyond it . |
| 46 | When he disappeared behind the dunes I sat for a while , scratching my crotch as the wind played with my hair and the birds returned to their nests . |
| 47 | I sat for an hour in my roomette looking out at the unvarying scenery and trying to imagine anything else that Filmer might have paid to have done . |
| 48 | I sat upon a disintegrating gravestone . |
| 49 | I sat like a Hector until I suddenly remembered my stomach and began noisily to vomit . |
| 50 | I sat beneath a metal-framed photograph ( black and white ) of fishing-boats at the Ile d'Oleron . |
| 51 | I laughed silently as I sat against a hard cushion in the palm-frond house looking at the brown eyes around me . |
| 52 | In the communal gardens I did not generally like drawing alone ; children and young teenage boys away from adult supervision , like young people everywhere , would sometimes taunt me or become rude , whereas one time , I sat against a house wall and was looked after by a family . |
| 53 | I dreamed last night that I sat by a fire with Grandmother & my brother & when I woke up I still felt my brother 's hand . |
| 54 | I sat in a thirteenth-century hall in Bruges in September 1988 and listened to Mrs Thatcher 's speech on the future of Europe . |
| 55 | Last Sunday I sat in a cold room with my daughter , the two of us reviling the malign fate which had robbed us of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea , our weekly TV fix . |
| 56 | I sat in a corner looking at the Dutchmen who smiled surreptitiously from the platform . |
| 57 | Gandalf says as much at II , 99 , though he is laconic about it — ‘ I sat in a high place ( the great tree in Lothlórien ? ] , and I strove with the Dark Tower ’ — since Aragorn and the others he is addressing can have no idea what is being referred to . |
| 58 | I sat in a corner and the uneasiness grew . |
| 59 | So with all this in mind , as I sat in a long queue of airmen for the preliminary examination , I was thankful . |
| 60 | One evening , I sat in a cantina with a row of bottles on the bar , and tried to remember absurdly small things about my own life . |