Example sentences of "sat [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paul Lexington and Bobby Anscombe sat through the whole play in silence . |
| 2 | At a dinner party in the British Embassy , an Italian General sat opposite the British Ambassador dressed in an impressive uniform decorated with an even more impressive display of medals . |
| 3 | and sat below the Sacred Heart . |
| 4 | Nutty had gone up to have a nose , sat behind the oil-drum stack early and seen him leave . |
| 5 | He sat behind the big desk , and Jill the secretary sat at her table opposite him across the room . |
| 6 | Blackadder sat amongst the apparent chaos and actual order of his great edition , sifting a drift of small paper slips in a valley between cliffs of furred-edged index cards and bulging mottled files . |
| 7 | I could visualise , as we sat under the rattan shade of the veranda , passing a perfect life on the island — a comfortable house , a garden in which I could grow everything I needed , enough fish to eat . |
| 8 | However , he sat with the right sort of expression on his face . |
| 9 | The girl poured two glasses of sherry , and the old woman sat with the young one and talked about love as the sun sank behind the hill . |
| 10 | She rose , crossed the room and sat with the dark man on the floor . |
| 11 | Dot sat with the yapping dogs on either side licking at her hands . |
| 12 | They were all pretty well oiled by then so I went back and sat with the other children . |
| 13 | He usually sat with the prompt book , next to Miss Thorne . |
| 14 | They sat round the square oak table wedged against the wall and consumed the tea . |
| 15 | I sat in the still shadows and listened to the water bubbling in a ditch beyond the wall . |
| 16 | He sat in the broad circle of young journalists in Mother Bunch 's Wine House and , with the rest of them , sank glass after glass of red wine . |
| 17 | We sat in the packed aisles , the building 's relative simplicity a delusion for what was to follow . |
| 18 | Sergeant Warden sat in the hard-backed chair , notebook at the ready . |
| 19 | So we sat in the creamy splendour of the Glasgow Hilton — with Erdman Lewis , the hotel group is sponsoring the production . |
| 20 | Her face flushed and she turned almost desperately to Marguerite as they sat in the small gold and white salon waiting for their refreshments . |
| 21 | LONG gone are the days where grannies sat in the rocking chair by the fire knitting . |
| 22 | The following day he bought her a bunch of violets and dropped them on her lap as she sat in the prompt corner . |
| 23 | Some of us , including Beth , sat in the front row . |
| 24 | Rose sat in the front seat . |
| 25 | A number of respondents commented on the lack of stimulation : ‘ They sat in the front room and did n't move . |
| 26 | Sometimes they sat in the front room reading aloud from the work of a man called Ian McEwan , an author who , according to Elinor , had ‘ a great deal to say ’ to Henry Farr . |
| 27 | Maisie and Joan , who collected catkins in the woods with me ; Lucy , who was always polite and a beautiful writer ; three very naughty boys who sat in the front row and made a nuisance of themselves : every teacher has memories like these . |
| 28 | Once I went down with Jane to the village pub and we sat in the front parlour on our own , listening to what seemed to be a male voice choir performing in the next room , accompanied by mysterious foot shufflings and stampings . |
| 29 | If I remember correctly , officers sat in the front few rows and NCOs and other lower forms of life had the rest . |
| 30 | Duncan and Myeloski sat in the front half of the plane . |