Example sentences of "i sat [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sat about forty minutes in the traffic jam . |
| 2 | Well I , I 've got ta be honest in what I 'm saying , I sat through two services yesterday the morning service did a lot for me . |
| 3 | I sat with one eye on the clock , waiting my turn and listening to the twenty-fifth rendering of ‘ My Way ’ . |
| 4 | I sat at one end of the table and Wallis sat at the other end . |
| 5 | Benjamin and I sat at one end of the trestle board , they sat at the other , grouped together like stupid boys immersed in their own private jokes . |
| 6 | 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 ! |
| 7 | When I sat on Cool Ground I was impressed with him too . |
| 8 | I sat on solid ground , my back against a tree . |
| 9 | I sat on one of the lockers with both feet on the bar that ran between the shafts . |
| 10 | I sat on one of those contemporary chairs with spindly legs and talked to a poor woman who had got me as a prize for writing something about A Wreath of Roses . |
| 11 | After lunch we retired to the drawing-room where the camera crew had already set up , and I sat on one sofa and he on another . |
| 12 | I gave it a wide berth and went to sit on the rug , but of course it had gone so I sat on one of the chairs instead , had a good long wash and settled down for a nap . |
| 13 | Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : I sat on that Select Committee , so I am aware of the circumstances which the Hon. |
| 14 | So I sat on this stool thing and Marie pulled the curtain and the light flashed twice and then Marie leaps in and sits on my lap , and it flashes again . |
| 15 | And I was really wrecked and I was I was n't even actually ill I just sat , well I was eventually but I sat on this wall for about four hours , yeah |
| 16 | and a cup of coffee and a cigarette , and I always do that but this day I was so tired after the doing the garden , both gardens like and fucking weeding them all and doing everything else and brushing out the back and doing I said to him for fuck 's sake do them dishes for me for a change William would you I said , so I got er got myself in the bath said I 'm away to bingo , so William 's gone out what happened ? eight , I had eight he had one you may get yourself I said ah fuck no wonder I have no fucking luck , so on the settee and said I 'm not going anywhere , I sat for ten minutes then I said ah fuck you why should I sit here so I lifted the car keys and walked out again then , fucking zooming out of and there was John coming up like that |
| 17 | I sat for half an hour outside the dining room like a pickle in a jam factory . |
| 18 | Charlotte and I sat like that for a long time , remembering . |
| 19 | Well , I sat in that room and saw this fantastic-looking man come through the door and I just did n't believe it . |
| 20 | I sat in many a night myself when you were all younger , waiting for that piss artist of a father of yours to come home , knowing in my heart that he was down the Bayswater Road , spending desperately needed money on old brasses . |
| 21 | Laura and I sat in tense silence , listening to the creak of the stairs . |
| 22 | 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 . |