Example sentences of "she sat [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In old age she sat for long periods by her bedroom window , looking out over roof-tops to distant church spires and tower blocks .
2 They settled Iris in the passenger seat of the Golf , where she sat with closed eyes .
3 She sat with extraordinary stillness , then she said :
4 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 .
5 She sat through other evidence , with her policeman husband Mark Smith , at Gloucester 's Shire Hall , while seven doctors and 3 midwives gave evidence .
6 She sat in gloomy silence , pushing her food round her plate .
7 She sat among coarse dune-grass and fixed on the distant
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