Example sentences of "[pers pn] sat with a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had my ideas worked out by the time I left for the 1960–61 Tasman series , and on the 24-hour flight to New Zealand I sat with a slide rule and drew the car as a pin-jointed structure , stressed it and arrived at all the tube sizes . ’ |
| 2 | I sat with a tomato juice in front of me for some time straining my ears to hear what Nigel was saying . |
| 3 | I sat with a cup of coffee on my lap , still half-asphyxiated by what I took to be Neapolitan warmth . |
| 4 | I sat with a price list . |
| 5 | She sat with a lame leg tucked under her . |
| 6 | As she sat with a whisky and waited for Constance 's call , she listened to the autumn wind tugging at the corners of the austere house . |
| 7 | She sat with a sigh on a black plastic mushroom by the bar . |
| 8 | If you sat with a girl in rows A to F , you 'd just met . |
| 9 | Uncle Ted had done absolutely nothing since the day Dad exorcized him as he sat with a record-player in his lap . |
| 10 | He sat with a frown of puzzlement on his forehead , then turned back to join again the talk around him . |
| 11 | Colonel Bauer , a German staff officer , wrote : ‘ He sat with a pallid face gazing at the map , dead to all feeling , a broken man . ’ |
| 12 | He sat with a small radar screen in front of him , writing up the small strips that are used by controllers all over the world , strips that have all the different aircraft information on them . |
| 13 | At Belfast Crown Court , Corry admitted murdering Mr Magee as he sat with a pint , beside his pet dog , also killed , in the beer keg bomb blast . |
| 14 | He sat with a calculator . |