Example sentences of "sat up in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She sat up in horror . |
| 2 | Put the kettle on , spooned coffee , rolled a cigarette , sat up in bed again and hoped the horrors had forgotten her address . |
| 3 | It woke Clarissa who sat up in bed with a start . |
| 4 | He could n't take his eyes off Zambia 's stomach which was revealed quite plainly as SHe sat up in bed . |
| 5 | She followed him through the drawing room and into the bedroom where Mrs Browning , a thick shawl round her shoulders , sat up in bed . |
| 6 | He opened his eyes and sat up in bed as Anna came in holding a mug of coffee . |
| 7 | ‘ Now , I sat up in bed last night reading papers because I did n't want to turn up at a meeting unprepared . |
| 8 | Maggie sat up in bed . |
| 9 | Now , however , she sat up in bed and wondered , as she had been wondering for the last few days , what had happened to the spider . |
| 10 | And at this point he sat up in bed , said ‘ White Rabbits ! ’ aloud , to bring luck throughout the coming month , and looked eagerly out of the window into the dewy sunshine which was beginning to shimmer on Thrush Green . |
| 11 | Then suddenly Susan sat up in bed , and regarded her sister with an odd little smile . |
| 12 | Phillis sat up in bed . |
| 13 | She held the phone to her ear with her shoulder and sat up in bed , pushing the newspapers on to the floor . |
| 14 | When the maid woke her she sat up in bed and said , ‘ Ask Sir Stephen if he can spare me a few minutes . ’ |
| 15 | Ellen sat up in bed , rubbing her eyes with her knuckles like a sleepy child . |
| 16 | Meredith sat up in bed and listened . |
| 17 | Hari sat up in bed and stared through the window to where the light from the street lamp paled into insignificance against the rising sun . |
| 18 | A sudden thought struck Katherine Lundy and she suddenly sat up in bed . |
| 19 | Patrick sat up in bed , and ran his fingers through his wold hair . |
| 20 | He sat up in bed , just as she came out of the bathroom , rubbing her hair with a towel , unselfconsciously naked . |
| 21 | He sat up in bed . |
| 22 | Angry with herself , she sat up in bed , turned on the light ( wonderful electric light ) , and reaching for one of the three modern novels laid out for her , forced herself to read . |
| 23 | Robert sat up in bed reading before turning over to sleep . |
| 24 | There was a long pause while Finch committed murder in his heart , and then sat up in bed with his cello and played arpeggios . |
| 25 | Now he sat up in bed and looked eagerly at the different handwritings . |
| 26 | Colin sat up in bed and looked very interested . |
| 27 | Colin forgot about his painful back and sat up in bed . |
| 28 | She sat up in bed , rubbed the sleep from her eyes and blew irritably at a hanging strand of her hair . |
| 29 | It was somewhere outside , and Jehan sat up in bed . |
| 30 | He sat up in bed and heard the singing of a solitary bird in the tree outside his window . |