Example sentences of "sat in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Last Sunday I sat in a cold room with my daughter , the two of us reviling the malign fate which had robbed us of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea , our weekly TV fix . |
| 32 | And so while he sat in a German public library and the story of the murder in the park unfolded before him in the newspapers , a novel began to stir . |
| 33 | They sat in a fashionable Italian restaurant in the city . |
| 34 | We sat in a gothic cafeteria . |
| 35 | Edward paid the taxi driver in advance and all the way home she sat in a happy daze . |
| 36 | Someone sat in a little cubby-hole of an office , and there received money conveyed by means of a complicated system of overhead wires . |
| 37 | She sat in a quiet , dark corner listening to the service . |
| 38 | Gandalf says as much at II , 99 , though he is laconic about it — ‘ I sat in a high place ( the great tree in Lothlórien ? ] , and I strove with the Dark Tower ’ — since Aragorn and the others he is addressing can have no idea what is being referred to . |
| 39 | We sat in a high vestibule between the street and the courtyard . |