Example sentences of "sat in a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Soon , however , she did not have enough time to do this although someone had to relieve the poor beast , and the fresh creamy milk often sat in a gleaming churn in the corner of the kitchen untouched until it went rancid and had to be thrown away .
2 Fred was delighted and led her up to his bedroom where a truly magnificent blue and yellow parrot sat in a tall cage .
3 He sat in a rocking chair that faced the door .
4 At 2pm on Wednesday 12 February , John Hutt sat in a dry ditch within easy view of the small Touchen End baker 's shop .
5 Two days later , she sat in a small bar , which was the latest haunt of the upwardly-mobile in Washington DC .
6 He crossed the corridor in two strides and sat in a small room that was used for counselling or small case conferences , leaving the door open and flipping impatiently through the file .
7 I sat in a small easy chair , the stiff clothes seeking out the bruises and abrasions of the night , my hand throbbing with pain .
8 As he sat in a roaring solitary splendour twenty thousand feet over the turbulent , endless ocean wastes , he had no idea of the appropriateness of the poem he had just read .
9 A man sat in a low leather bucket seat and watched a TV screen .
10 The audience sat in a warm honey glow , drinking tea and eating richly iced cake .
11 Mrs Watts sat in a deep chair in a dark corner of the room but Hari had the impression that the woman was like a cat sleeping with one eye open , watching everything that went on .
12 Archer sat in a hard-backed chair , very erect .
13 FIG. 3 In the experiments described here , observers sat in a modified Wheatstone stereoscope with mirrors at 45 deg to the line of sight and viewed the rear-projected images created on two translucent Mylar screens 57cm from the observer 's eyes .
14 While Drago and Apanage went into the small kitchen next to Drago 's workroom to prepare a meal , Cleo and Dauntless sat in a cosy parlour where a log fire warmed the stones of an enormous chimney breast .
15 Billy sat in a far corner of the little pub with Chopper Harris , Frankie Albright and Freddie the Nark , and Freddie was trying hard to sound convincing as he put his plan over to his friends .
16 He tasted the delicate fennel-flavoured soup which sat in a shallow bowl in front of him .
17 All day Coleman sat in a hot studio staring at one picture and maintaining hours of nonstop commentary to out-Dimbleby the best of them .
18 Alan Millet sat in a front room filled with books of modern English history and photographs of small boys lined in the formations of the posed soccer team .
19 Raoul and Christine sat in a dark corner , and Raoul took Christine 's hands .
20 They sat in a dark room , the only light coming from a candle burning in the passage outside .
21 ‘ Gee , ’ Charity Marlowe responded drily from where she sat in a decrepit upholstered chair , her head thrown back , her hair hidden under a towel , and her eyes clenched tightly shut .
22 So with all this in mind , as I sat in a long queue of airmen for the preliminary examination , I was thankful .
23 One of the things that some chaps found amusing when they went to the " heads " ( the head is what the Navy calls the loo ) , you sat in a long row and a great flush of water ran right through a row of 20 or 30 .
24 I sat in a thirteenth-century hall in Bruges in September 1988 and listened to Mrs Thatcher 's speech on the future of Europe .
25 She says she was taken to the Plaza Hotel , to a party where Hoover sat in a fine black frock and insisted on being called ‘ Mary ’ ; after a while , he retired to the bedroom to be petted by two bought boys , one of whom prudently wore rubber gloves .
26 Franklin D. Hauser sat in a large Regency chair , wearing evening dress , in the large living room at the front of the house .
27 Bonanza sat in a huge oak chair .
28 The royal favourite sat in a quilted window seat whilst young Edward lounged in a chair near him .
29 ‘ The customers were mostly Japanese and the girls sat in a damp back room waiting to be called to join a man at his table .
30 So to while away the time while they waited for dark again they sat in a back room and fiished the waistcoat .
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