Example sentences of "[pers pn] sat [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tony Brough ( the Principal ) and I sat at High Table , but it was very democratic because the students also took it in turns to sit at High Table — and to be invited to the Principal 's office for pre-dinner drinks ! |
| 2 | When I sat on Cool Ground I was impressed with him too . |
| 3 | I sat on solid ground , my back against a tree . |
| 4 | Laura and I sat in tense silence , listening to the creak of the stairs . |
| 5 | They were still talking when I continued on my way back to my roomette where I sat in comfortable privacy for a while reading the timetable and also reflecting that although I still had no answers to the old questions , I now had a whole crop of new ones , the most urgent being whether or not Filmer had already known the Youngs were friends of Ezra Gideon . |
| 6 | In old age she sat for long periods by her bedroom window , looking out over roof-tops to distant church spires and tower blocks . |
| 7 | They settled Iris in the passenger seat of the Golf , where she sat with closed eyes . |
| 8 | She sat with extraordinary stillness , then she said : |
| 9 | She sat with bowed head for a moment then looked directly at him and replied , ‘ It is only my child , sir , the wanting of my child , and suddenly seeing a way to get him , and then it being taken away . |
| 10 | She sat through other evidence , with her policeman husband Mark Smith , at Gloucester 's Shire Hall , while seven doctors and 3 midwives gave evidence . |
| 11 | She sat in gloomy silence , pushing her food round her plate . |
| 12 | She sat among coarse dune-grass and fixed on the distant |
| 13 | Downstairs , you sat on wooden benches ; upstairs , there were seats of dark crimson plush . |
| 14 | We sat at long desks which held five pupils . |
| 15 | I 'm convinced he drew me aside , away from Jeeta and Jamila , into the store-room , where we sat on wooden boxes like skiving factory workers , because he was ashamed , or at least bashful , about his unsweet victory . |
| 16 | Mary brought out a rough-and-ready picnic on a doth and we sat under old apple trees on which the apples were already beginning to glow with ripeness . |
| 17 | In the October heat haze we sat in stately convoy among huge 5-litre cars — all floating like ships becalmed at a docile 54mph . |
| 18 | We sat in adjacent chairs opposite him and he asked , ‘ Why are you here ? ’ |
| 19 | We sat in heavy silence for a long time . |
| 20 | We sat in stubborn silence for a minute . |
| 21 | The room we sat in contained two television sets , two oak sideboards , slightly lower than the ceiling and four clocks all stopped at different times . |
| 22 | They sat at separate tables and waited until the band started its last set with a synthesised pastiche of Hello Dolly . |
| 23 | Tight-lipped , she drove in silence , keeping her eyes firmly on the road , but as they sat at red traffic-lights waiting for them to change she could n't keep silent any longer . |
| 24 | Whenever they came to meetings at the department they sat at opposite ends of the table . |
| 25 | She remembered how the table around which they sat at High Tea , was covered with a sheet of speckled grey lino which had a strange stickiness . |
| 26 | They sat at different places in the room , most of them also with drinks cradled in their hands . |
| 27 | They sat on stubby pillars at the bottom of a short flight of steps leading to the parade square . |
| 28 | In a brown-panelled room smelling of tobacco they sat on opposite sides of a cold hearth full of cinders , swallowing hot wine and water under the blue eyes of Sergeant Collier , who was looking at them with intent curiosity like a man staring at a two-headed dog in a freak show . |
| 29 | They sat on hard upright chairs in a draughty passage , and all the excitement they had been feeling drained out of them , seeping through the soles of their shoes and vanishing into the linoleum . |
| 30 | They sat on high stools by the window of a pub , enduring the after-work rush . |