Example sentences of "sat [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ For four years before being appointed full time I sat as a recorder so I have really been sitting in the crown court for 17 years , ’ said Mr Hewitt , whose work on the North Eastern Circuit has taken him to courts from Humberside to the Scottish and Lancashire borders . |
| 2 | The classrooms in which such learning takes place may look very different from those in which I sat as a child 50 years ago ( the walls are covered with paintings and there is a computer in the corner , the desks are informally arranged ) but the assumption that all learning is determined , ordered and mediated through the teacher is the common thread which links the schools of the 1980s with those of my pre-war childhood . |
| 3 | Hence when I went to the Lords in 1965 I sat as a cross-bencher , although periodically , according to my attitude at the time , I was supporting one or other of the two parties and rarely took a cross-bench approach . |
| 4 | He just sat for a while in a sort of communal TV room with a few old loons . |
| 5 | He sat for a while without speaking , apparently debating how many of his thoughts to share . |
| 6 | I sat for a while thinking of what I 'd said and of what he 'd told me , and I still could n't believe that any of the people I 'd come to know so well was really a murderer . |
| 7 | She sat for a while , becoming quieter , breathing deeply , ceasing to tremble . |
| 8 | She sat for a while , checking an anguish which made her want to sob . |
| 9 | They sat for a while in thoughtful silence while the shower passed from the surface of the lake and the light hiss of the rain ceased . |
| 10 | I sat for a while watching the scenery slide by , wild uninhabited stretches of green and autumn-blazing trees , grey rocks and blue lakes punctuated by tiny hamlets and lonely houses , all vivid in the afternoon sunshine , a panoramic impression of the vastness of Canada and the smallness of her population . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Then he sat for a while on the aisle stand which was a box covering the auto-pilot , where he was able to look out through the nose . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | We less poetic mortals sat for a while in the afternoon sunlight and shadow , then we turned down the path again for a pot of tea and a scone for myself and Eddy and a biscuit for Bill before we began the road walk back to the car . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I sat for a while holding the baby under my hands . |
| 17 | She sat for a while , the inevitable cigarette burning out in the ashtray . |
| 18 | Meanwhile Angel Clare returned to his hotel , and sat for a while over breakfast , staring into space . |
| 19 | Maxim sat for a while , absorbing that thought . |
| 20 | We sat for a while in the sitting-room over coffee . |
| 21 | When he disappeared behind the dunes I sat for a while , scratching my crotch as the wind played with my hair and the birds returned to their nests . |
| 22 | The friar sat for a while admiring the beauty of St John 's Chapel , comparing it to the grimness of St Erconwald 's . |
| 23 | They sat for a minute in silence as if what had passed between them needed to be assimilated in peace . |
| 24 | In front of the studio back cloth of a painted garden , each mother in turn sat for a portrait with her offspring , and when that was done Ernest offered to take an extra group of them all , as a free gift . |
| 25 | The Prophet sat for a couple of minutes , gathering his strength . |
| 26 | Dorothea sat for a moment longer , remembering Alida , her tears , her loss of all control . |
| 27 | Allen sat for a moment on the parapet , Marian saw him smile at her , then he slipped over the edge and the rope grew taut on the hook . |
| 28 | She sat for a moment in silence . |
| 29 | They sat for a moment in glum accord watching the evening thicken outside . |
| 30 | She sat for a moment on the narrow window ledge , scanning the shadows in case shapes , creatures , sentinels should materialise . |