Example sentences of "and sat [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | Behind her , strained and silent , was Emily , who took her cup and sat beside the wooden black boy . |
| 3 | Willis came in quietly and sat beside the child on the locker , covered with brand new flower-patterned cushions . |
| 4 | And the chauffeur drove me down in the car and sat beside the car waiting on me . |
| 5 | and sat below the Sacred Heart . |
| 6 | Some Indian guests arrived and sat under the portico . |
| 7 | The horseman threw a couple of sacks over the backs of his horses and sat under the hedge to eat his elevenses . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Presently he stopped and sat under the apple tree . |
| 10 | When they had finished several hours later I felt confused and sat outside the room to smoke a cigarette while the Sergeants deliberated . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Duncan pulled up one of the chairs and sat opposite the man . |
| 13 | MacDiarmid waved him forward with a commanding sweep of his arm and he came and sat at the end of the table . |
| 14 | Then he got pen and writing pad and sat at the table . |
| 15 | John slowly rose and sat at the table where he was soon joined by the two women . |
| 16 | Modigliani , of course , spotted her at once and came and sat at the next table . |
| 17 | We followed him outside and sat at the tin table under the tree . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The Frenchwoman who ran the hotel came in with a crowd of people and sat at the only other table . |
| 20 | Hari made tea and sat at the table , her hands curled around the warmth of the cup . |
| 21 | She spooned four heaped spoonfuls of sugar into it and some condensed milk and sat at the kitchen table . |
| 22 | Alice made coffee , set around the mugs , and sat at the head of the table . |
| 23 | William got in first , and sat at the front . |
| 24 | She took her early morning tea to the garden , and sat at the table to drink it . |
| 25 | Benjamin covered the woman 's face with a cloth and sat at the table . |
| 26 | Athelstan went into the nave and sat at the base of a pillar , legs crossed , whilst he stared up at the high altar behind the rood screen . |
| 27 | ‘ Come and have a drink , ’ said Cormack , and they moved into the bar and sat at the fixed tables and watched the glasses slide from rim to rim . |
| 28 | ‘ I went to Co Tyrone , my mother 's county , with the cup all day and then came home and sat at the fire with my wife and talked about the hotel and what had gone on that day . ’ |
| 29 | A woman walked in and sat at the middle of the counter — Maxim had chosen the furthest end . |
| 30 | Katy sighed and sat at the table beside him . |