Example sentences of "[coord] sat [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps this would apply if they had walked along that village street or sat on the green or drunk in the local , but they had not . |
| 2 | And if you 're worried in case anyone in the family has drunk out of a cup her husband used , or sat on the same loo seat or given him a friendly kiss , relax . |
| 3 | But , indulging a passion more secret than her love for Italian painting , Molly had early gone off with Holmes and Watson in a cab through the pea-souper , or sat on the edge of her chair while Poirot summoned the guests to assemble in the library after tea . |
| 4 | She moved purposefully away to the group who lay in the darkness under the cypress trees , or sat on the walls and steps of the garden , and began to activate them so that a light dress , or white pair of jeans could be seen jigging about in the night that had suddenly fallen . |
| 5 | For breaktime the children played on the climbing frames , or sat on the grass . |
| 6 | Nobody discovered , pre-opening , that the hair-dryers provided in one luxury provincial hotel could only be used if the guests bent double or sat on the bedroom floor . |
| 7 | ‘ In charge of ’ can be proved by the police officer or other witness who saw him near or sat in the vehicle for example . |
| 8 | Her conversations with the villagers as they shelled peanuts or sat around the fire , the interest she took in her pupils and their home backgrounds , her journeys out into the villages on teaching practice or corps activities had given her an appreciation of how the Africans thought and felt . |
| 9 | After Dee left , we emptied the contents of our shiny carriers on to the floor and sat amid the jumble drinking coffee and trying on various ‘ finds ’ for each other 's approval , between ‘ oohs ’ and ‘ aahs ’ . |
| 10 | Behind her , strained and silent , was Emily , who took her cup and sat beside the wooden black boy . |
| 11 | Willis came in quietly and sat beside the child on the locker , covered with brand new flower-patterned cushions . |
| 12 | And the chauffeur drove me down in the car and sat beside the car waiting on me . |
| 13 | and sat below the Sacred Heart . |
| 14 | Some Indian guests arrived and sat under the portico . |
| 15 | The horseman threw a couple of sacks over the backs of his horses and sat under the hedge to eat his elevenses . |
| 16 | We all met every evening and sat under the trees discussing films we had seen , books we were reading and radio programmes we had heard . |
| 17 | Presently he stopped and sat under the apple tree . |
| 18 | When they had finished several hours later I felt confused and sat outside the room to smoke a cigarette while the Sergeants deliberated . |
| 19 | So she gave up , and sat between the vines in the hot sun , alternately sleeping and working her way through the dusty volumes of Peregrine Pickle , bound in crimson and gold leather , with real bookworms making agitated forays from their dark crannies into the heat and light across the extraordinary scenes where Smollett 's elderly ladies retained their urine indefinitely to put out putative fires , or sweetened their foul breaths with violet cachous to deceive desired young lovers . |
| 20 | Duncan pulled up one of the chairs and sat opposite the man . |
| 21 | MacDiarmid waved him forward with a commanding sweep of his arm and he came and sat at the end of the table . |
| 22 | Then he got pen and writing pad and sat at the table . |
| 23 | John slowly rose and sat at the table where he was soon joined by the two women . |
| 24 | Modigliani , of course , spotted her at once and came and sat at the next table . |
| 25 | We followed him outside and sat at the tin table under the tree . |
| 26 | Greg went out on the course with Laura about 11 PM and sat at the bleachers on the 18th with a bottle of champagne while he went over his round again . |
| 27 | The Frenchwoman who ran the hotel came in with a crowd of people and sat at the only other table . |
| 28 | Hari made tea and sat at the table , her hands curled around the warmth of the cup . |
| 29 | She spooned four heaped spoonfuls of sugar into it and some condensed milk and sat at the kitchen table . |
| 30 | Alice made coffee , set around the mugs , and sat at the head of the table . |