Example sentences of "sat with a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jenny sat with a contented smile on her face during this interchange while mother repressed her irritation and anger with her husband 's remarks . |
| 2 | She sat with a lame leg tucked under her . |
| 3 | He 'd been shown to the interview room where Scott sat with a uniformed officer close by the door . |
| 4 | He sat with a small radar screen in front of him , writing up the small strips that are used by controllers all over the world , strips that have all the different aircraft information on them . |
| 5 | Shelley found tears in her own eyes , as Constance sat with a beatific look on her face , and young Pablo , looking neat and dapper in his best clothes , stood smiling at the altar , waiting for his childhood sweetheart to join him . |
| 6 | Colonel Bauer , a German staff officer , wrote : ‘ He sat with a pallid face gazing at the map , dead to all feeling , a broken man . ’ |
| 7 | The Doctor sat with an unreadable expression , which presumably meant his patience was n't being strained . |
| 8 | Once I sat with an American psychiatrist , a specialist in eating behaviour , and observed a hugely overweight couple ( quite unaware that we were watching them ) eating their restaurant breakfasts . |