Example sentences of "sat in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sat in the still shadows and listened to the water bubbling in a ditch beyond the wall . |
| 2 | He sat in the broad circle of young journalists in Mother Bunch 's Wine House and , with the rest of them , sank glass after glass of red wine . |
| 3 | We sat in the packed aisles , the building 's relative simplicity a delusion for what was to follow . |
| 4 | Sergeant Warden sat in the hard-backed chair , notebook at the ready . |
| 5 | So we sat in the creamy splendour of the Glasgow Hilton — with Erdman Lewis , the hotel group is sponsoring the production . |
| 6 | Her face flushed and she turned almost desperately to Marguerite as they sat in the small gold and white salon waiting for their refreshments . |
| 7 | Often this was reflected in the village church , where the old sat in the best seats and the young at the back . |
| 8 | LONG gone are the days where grannies sat in the rocking chair by the fire knitting . |
| 9 | The following day he bought her a bunch of violets and dropped them on her lap as she sat in the prompt corner . |
| 10 | Some of us , including Beth , sat in the front row . |
| 11 | Rose sat in the front seat . |
| 12 | A number of respondents commented on the lack of stimulation : ‘ They sat in the front room and did n't move . |
| 13 | Sometimes they sat in the front room reading aloud from the work of a man called Ian McEwan , an author who , according to Elinor , had ‘ a great deal to say ’ to Henry Farr . |
| 14 | Maisie and Joan , who collected catkins in the woods with me ; Lucy , who was always polite and a beautiful writer ; three very naughty boys who sat in the front row and made a nuisance of themselves : every teacher has memories like these . |
| 15 | Once I went down with Jane to the village pub and we sat in the front parlour on our own , listening to what seemed to be a male voice choir performing in the next room , accompanied by mysterious foot shufflings and stampings . |
| 16 | If I remember correctly , officers sat in the front few rows and NCOs and other lower forms of life had the rest . |
| 17 | Duncan and Myeloski sat in the front half of the plane . |
| 18 | ‘ It is a country with opportunities , ’ said Steve : and off they went again , with their second-hand opinions , their echoes of overheard conversations , their phrases from advertisements and tabloid newspapers : and yet to Shirley there was perhaps something comfortable , despite all , something reassuring about the hands of cards , the button and matchstick money , the green baize of the table , the predictable , ancient jokes , the cigarette ends in the big red ashtray : there was safety here , of a sort , safety in repetition , safety in familiar faces and frustrations , and warmth of a sort , warmth and communion of a sort , society of a sort : the society she had discovered as a teenager , when she would slip surreptitiously out of the icy silence of Abercorn Avenue , where the clock ticked relentlessly on the kitchen wall , where Liz propped her textbooks against the Peek Frean biscuit tin on the kitchen table , where her mother sat in the front room listening to the radio , cutting up newspapers ; she would let herself quietly out of the back door and creep down the passage , past the outside lav , through the back gate , round the corner , and then she would run for it , along Hilldrop Crescent , down The Grove , up Brindleford Drive , and across the main road at the lights to Victoria Street , where Cliff and Steve and their sister Marge lived . |
| 19 | I sat in the front row of the balcony with tears rolling down my face and feeling nothing at all . |
| 20 | Princess Margaret wore a pretty blue silk evening dress , and sat in the front row of the circle . |
| 21 | Queen Sofia of Spain , who is Patron of both charities , came over from Madrid for the Gala , and looked lovely in a pink taffeta dress ; she sat in the front row of chairs beside her brother King Constantine of the Hellenes , and near Queen Anne-Marie and Princess Irene of the Hellenes , and the Spanish Ambassador and Señora Puig de la Bellacasa . |
| 22 | She sat in the front room of her house ( Arcadia Villas , Bed and Breakfast ) pouring tea for the wickedly handsome young man on the sofa , who had taken a room for the entire run of the pantomime . |
| 23 | At the back occasional noises of activity from the park broke across the air ; she sat in the front room cool enough now to sew . |
| 24 | During the service he sat in the front pew and listened to the preacher talking about the kind of woman she had been , and he knew it was n't like that , but the doctor had given some pills and he felt drowsy and numb , and illogically cheerful , as if he was slightly drunk , but at the stage where everything seems enlarged and unfamiliar . |
| 25 | Morse smiled wanly at the lady as she sat in the front row , a lady turning the scales at not much more , surely , than around five stone . |
| 26 | Tuppe sat in the front passenger seat brrrming the toy car up and down the dashboard . |
| 27 | For the rest of the afternoon she simply sat in the front room of the old farmhouse , surrounded by paint pots and rolls of wallpaper , oblivious to the chaos as she went over everything that had happened in her mind . |
| 28 | I sat in the front room . |
| 29 | Margaret had to cope with Tom in the mornings , and Gina sat in the long silent room and watched the visitors who came round , talking in hushed voices as if the pictures would be offended , or the artist was hiding somewhere . |
| 30 | This morning the school party , including the wet member , having gone on well ahead , I crossed the beck and sat in the warm sun outside the gorge , simply looking . |