Example sentences of "[pers pn] sat for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sat for hours staring at the sea . |
| 2 | She sat for hours in her bedroom . |
| 3 | They sat for hours drinking tea in Mrs. Mounce 's flat downstairs , while Mrs. Mounce talked about her affairs with moustached men in export-import , and Tessa looked at the little bit here and the little bit there which Mrs. Mounce had done herself to brighten her own place up . |
| 4 | He sat for hours staring into a hand mirror , tilting it this way and that and bending his head . |
| 5 | He sat for Westmorland in the Reformation Parliament ( 1529–36 ) and may have held the same seat subsequently . |
| 6 | Knighted in 1580 , he sat for Cornwall and Lostwithiel in the Parliaments of 1589 and 1593 . |
| 7 | Both in that body , in which he sat for London , and in its enlarged council of state , he was highly active , and clearly one of the leaders of an emerging radical faction . |
| 8 | During the Exclusion Parliaments , in which he sat for Arundel , he opposed the exclusion of the Duke of York ( later James II ) : instead , he demanded measures against popery , frequent Parliaments , the disbandment of the army , and the uniting of the Protestants . |
| 9 | Tritsis was intensely proud of his Ionian origins and from 1981 to 1989 he sat for Cephalonia and Ithaca , the constituency of Odysseus , in the Athens parliament . |