Example sentences of "sat [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The Trekkies — fans of the Space adventure Star Trek — sat through a thirteen hour showing of all six films featuring Captain James T. Kirk and the crew of the Starship Enterprise . |
| 3 | SCI-FI buffs yesterday sat through a seven-hour viewing of all three Alien films , starring Sigourney Weaver , at a Swansea cinema . |
| 4 | Well only just to really , actually all Mr Mr has er said , and just one other bit of information , the time when the Chairman of the council extended the invitation to sixth formers , looking for alternative entertainment for the sixth formers of school , after they sat through a full council , I took them over to the er archivists er department , and we saw the paper restor , sorry , should n't say paper restorer , manuscript restorer at work , and these sixth formers , already knew of the existence , one of them asked to see the records of parish , because he knew they were there , and I mean , I think this is wonderful , that the sixth formers already , er children are being taught about the ar the records , and they will want to be sure that we kept them , and I think it 's our moral duty to keep er , the records of the past for future generations . |
| 5 | A typical example — and there are many of these — was when he patiently sat through a high level Air Ministry conference listening to the Mosquito being castigated for its poor night flying qualities ( because of the glare from the exhausts ) , and Boscombe Down recommended that it should never be flown at night , the chairman , as an afterthought , suggested Bennett contribute his views : " I wish someone hid told me about all these faults ' , he replied , " because I have been flying the Masse on OBOE night trials with excellent results " . |
| 6 | He sat as a Unionist councillor and , when the Unionist Party became dominated by powersharers , he moved to Vanguard , then to Baird 's United Ulster Unionist Party , and only switched to Paisley 's Democratic Unionist Party after the demise of the UUUP . |
| 7 | When arrangements were made in the summer of 1278 to establish two permanent circuits of the general eyre he was one of the justices appointed to the ‘ northern ’ circuit and he sat as a junior justice in every eyre of that circuit down to 1288 . |
| 8 | Though not a Leveller sympathizer , he sat as a leading London Independent on the committee that drafted the second Agreement of the People . |
| 9 | For the next four years he sat as an engrossing clerk on a stool in the dusty office , so thick with dust that it entered the sunbeams ; and bent over crabbed writing in the books , or showed dull clients in to see his father , or sat the examinations , which he passed . |
| 10 | After the girls had gone I sat for a little time , thinking . |
| 11 | Upstream , through the gorge known as the Wachau , runs one of the prettiest stretches of the river and I sat for a pleasant hour on its embankment watching the swallows skim its waters . |
| 12 | Back home safely , I made a cuppa and sat for a good hour revelling in my favourite magazine . |
| 13 | Moran sat for a long time . |
| 14 | They sat for a long time in silence watching the Atlantic crash down on the empty shore . |
| 15 | Afterwards I sat for a long time trying to reconcile myself to these new ideas . |
| 16 | But the old Jew sat for a long time in silence as the wind and rain in the darkness outside lashed at the windows of Damiani 's old home . |
| 17 | When he came back in the evening he sat for a long time gazing out across the V-shaped valley leading south . |
| 18 | The Collector sat for a long time contemplating his boots which , because of the dampness , had become covered in green mould . |
| 19 | And he sat for a long time in a melancholy reverie as the ants continued to drift down , thinking of the futility of all endeavour . |
| 20 | Alice went to a cafe in Finchley Road , and sat for a long time quietly by herself over strong coffee . |
| 21 | She read it through and then sat for a long time on the white strips of the reclining chair in which she had first seen Signor Fixit . |
| 22 | They sat for a long time on brown plastic seats in a white corridor . |
| 23 | I sat for a long while , clutching the unfinished poem , gazing beyond it . |
| 24 | She sat for a long while , until her limbs became cold and stiff and her mind numb with tiredness and misery . |
| 25 | Andrus sat for a long time . |
| 26 | Now that Elizabeth had exhausted the topic of Martha , they sat for a few moments in silence , one each side of the fire with a cup of tea . |
| 27 | He looked expectantly at Sarah , but she sat for a few seconds before speaking . |
| 28 | Helen , too , sat for a few minutes . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | She showered and shampooed her short dark hair , combing it into its neat bob , then she made toast and coffee and sat for a few minutes before her kitchen window which enjoyed the same view as her bedroom . |