Example sentences of "we sat [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | We sat at a special table and just told jokes about the Russians , the Americans , and ourselves . ’ |
| 2 | We sat on a phone at Miami airport with a pile of quarters and a copy of the local Yellow Pages : ‘ Automobiles — Delivery and Drive-Away , ’ a couple of sheets of box ads and a user-friendly voice on the line . |
| 3 | The journey there was uneventful and we sat on a seat in the Market Place to eat our sandwiches . |
| 4 | It began to get quite hot so we sat on a mossy bank and shared an orange . |
| 5 | We sat on a tree that had been felled and ate some very tasty ham sandwiches -one of the few picnics I have ever been to . |
| 6 | We sat on a park bench in Clifton , having revisited the streets where Moggach lived during her time in Bristol . |
| 7 | We sat on a sofa beneath the doleful gaze of these trophies while Hasan plied us with drinks and an array of Egyptian delicacies which he brought simmering from the kitchen . |
| 8 | The water had to be drawn up out of one of a battery of long-necked cisterns behind the cottage , and when we had done that and fed the plants we sat on a seat by the Priapus arbour , with the unusual smell , in summer Greece , of verdant wet earth all around us . |
| 9 | ‘ During the first walk we saw a weka , but the second time was much more exciting because we sat on a log and waited for a kiwi to return to its nest . ’ |
| 10 | We sat for a while , saying little , until I started into a description of Changez 's ‘ specials ’ , his camp-bed and the bizarre spectacle of a man falling in love with his wife . |
| 11 | We sat for a while just watching and listening to the water and turned back to follow the path out of the steep-sided gill towards Cotterdale . |
| 12 | We sat for a while by the cairn in the hot sun looking out before us , the only noise being the sound of the beck behind us falling over boulders and down towards Brackens Gill and the Dee . |
| 13 | Joe made room for me with the same amount of good grace he might have afforded an enemy invading his castle and we sat for a few minutes without speaking , inspecting the view . |
| 14 | We sat for a while in the sitting-room over coffee . |
| 15 | We sat for an hour wondering if any soup would be issued . |
| 16 | The ocean of bad weather racing in from the north west did little to cheer me , so we sat for an hour while I gathered strength . |
| 17 | Once inside , we sat through a fascinating short on turtle-trapping in the Galapagos Islands or some such thing , and twenty minutes of mouth-watering trailers and commercials . |
| 18 | And we sat about an hour did n't we ? |
| 19 | We sat in a room all afternoon . |
| 20 | We sat in a bar with walls covered in red plush-velvet and watched the Rumanian Asioz chatting to the two waitresses . |
| 21 | We sat in a hide built from old telegraph poles and railway sleepers and looked out on to banks bright with primroses and cowslips . |
| 22 | We sat in a high vestibule between the street and the courtyard . |
| 23 | We sat in a gothic cafeteria . |
| 24 | Before we looked at the Fort , we sat in a chai shop , sipping hot tea and reading out loud from Inayat Khan 's chronicle . |
| 25 | You 're not supposed to be aware of it , you 're supposed to say normal , we sat in a pub last night and this man started telling me a dirty joke , so that 's on it . |