Example sentences of "sat a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She sat a long time by herself , looking at the forsythia . |
| 2 | Silence as though relief , when suddenly with a creaking and ghostly groaning the lid slid as if off and up sat a terrible apparition with outstretched hand screeching in a hollow voice , give me my gift with such violence , that some of the company fell into the water and had to be saved , and those on the shore scrambled in allways confusion was everywhere . |
| 3 | At the controls sat a youngish man in no sort of uniform , and beside him sat an older man in cleanish overalls with grease on his fingers . |
| 4 | There were more double doors at the end and in front of them on a tubular chair sat a uniformed constable reading the Sunday Express . |
| 5 | She slipped a small bag off her shoulder and , leaving it by the wall , sat a little way off . |
| 6 | On his head sat a tartan cap , predominantly red . |
| 7 | Next the wife came to the second cavern , where there sat a fearsome bird , large as a mountain ; her feathers were of brass and her beak of iron . |
| 8 | During his three years at University College , London , he got work each Christmas with the post office in his home town of Woking : ‘ When I was coming to the end of my university period I sat a civil service examination with possible jobs at the end which included income tax , the secret service and the post office which involved travelling as a management trainee . |
| 9 | On an upright chair sat a young man — shaven-headed and bovver- booted — who had come for treatment for ‘ a most embarrassing men 's illness ’ ( he would not elaborate ) which had not improved with orthodox therapy . |
| 10 | In it sat a tiny beetle wearing goggles . |
| 11 | At a table sat a royal-blue Sister with a crimped white turret on her head . |
| 12 | In the courtyard below , surrounded by nuns and other members of the convent , sat a strange-looking man on horseback . |
| 13 | At the other end of the table from Dowd , sitting in front of a heap of newspapers doubtless carrying the Burke reports , sat a professorial man in his sixties , white hair oiled to his scalp . |
| 14 | Beside her sat a tousled youth , enveloped in a woolly scarf . |
| 15 | At the other end of the shelf sat a dark figure . |
| 16 | Coloured candles stood tall , there were glass boxes of shells which she and Thomas had collected , and in the stone hearth sat a vast earthenware urn filled with wild flowers . |
| 17 | In the rear sat a restless Cord Dillon . |
| 18 | Beside Ralph sat a coloured man , Joseph and next to him , Carter . |
| 19 | He led the way to the outer office , which had been empty when Shelley arrived , but where now sat a sylph-like creature with a cloud of dark brown curls , and very heavily made-up eyes . |
| 20 | At a desk before the window sat a pale man in a dark suit . |
| 21 | Around a pine table sat a beautiful girl with two men . |
| 22 | At a desk by the window sat a round-shouldered man . |
| 23 | On a steel-frame bed against the far wall sat a lanky figure , his head and shoulders covered by another black cowl hood . |
| 24 | Upon the top sat a magnificent eagle carved in sandstone . |
| 25 | At the controls sat a youngish man in no sort of uniform , and beside him sat an older man in cleanish overalls with grease on his fingers . |
| 26 | But seated half-way down one side of the table and with no one opposite her sat an old lady . |
| 27 | In the middle of the clearing , on a stone , sat an old woman who smiled at her and said hello Manyara . |
| 28 | And on they travelled through the forest until they came to a place where the roads crossed and there sat an old woman resting on a stone . |
| 29 | In a vast and threadbare armchair , surrounded by brass and ivory knick-knacks , draped in a voluminous shawl , three-bar electric fire trained on her feet , sat an old woman , breathing wheezily and staring with obvious relief at Zohra . |