Example sentences of "sat with " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sat with my head in my hands for a while , then I went over to my desk and took out a small framed photograph of Anne and myself which I always hid before she arrived . |
| 2 | The young man who made the tea sat with us , occasionally contributing to the conversation . |
| 3 | Jay stacked her manuscript and photos , sat with a cigarette and a glass of Pouilly Fumé , only Lucy needed to complete her freesia-scented scene . |
| 4 | The thunder broke not long after sunset , as Cameron and Menzies sat with a jug of wine , reckoning up the day 's gains and setbacks . |
| 5 | Leonard recalled his own practice of that time , an ‘ instinctive ’ use of ‘ primitive meditation ’ : ‘ I sat with my hands on my lap , like a cataleptic … like Ezekiel ! |
| 6 | She rose , crossed the room and sat with the dark man on the floor . |
| 7 | I sat with her , gave her my drink bottle , stuffed her with glucose and encouraged her to rest for a while . |
| 8 | So I came to the dinner for 20 minutes and sat with the sponsors . |
| 9 | How long she had been there , we could not be sure , for if she sat with head and tail aligned along the wall , she was invisible from below , and only when she turned sideways did she come into view . |
| 10 | I crawled over the grass and sat with my back against the farmhouse and stared at the blood pouring down the front of my battledress . |
| 11 | George stared at the bagpipes as I clambered into the passenger seat beside him and sat with the pipes on my lap . |
| 12 | We sat with our backs against the trig point and gazed down like Gods on the coastal plain of Thassos . |
| 13 | Since she had been secretary to a bishop ( she learnt to type by trial and error ) , and also chauffeur to a bishop ( she learnt to drive by trial and error ) , she knew a lot of the clergy and their wives and had visited them all over the diocese , often in the black-out , and sat with the wives while the husbands talked to Bishop Owen , so she was good at remembering about them and their children and found the wives of the clergy to be fun . |
| 14 | She guided her emotional mate back to his seat and sat with her arms around him until he tried to kill her again . |
| 15 | If you sat with a girl in rows A to F , you 'd just met . |
| 16 | She poured their tea and sat with a cup of her own by the fire , chatting away as easily as she did every morning . |
| 17 | I had my ideas worked out by the time I left for the 1960–61 Tasman series , and on the 24-hour flight to New Zealand I sat with a slide rule and drew the car as a pin-jointed structure , stressed it and arrived at all the tube sizes . ’ |
| 18 | She went back into the lounge and sat with Fritz , finding out how remarkably much they had in common , until they were joined by Rosa and other friends and spent two magical hours until , at 10.00 , she stood up . |
| 19 | As ever , Erika sat with Omi for a while , holding her hand . |
| 20 | He sat with his hand mirror all day and every day . |
| 21 | Mrs Moore sat with Lily 's pale hand in hers and talked with desperate gaiety about the coming of spring . |
| 22 | For the first 10 minutes , she sat with her back to me and refused to turn round . |
| 23 | During Mr Kinnock 's amusing budget counter-attack , she sat with Mr Major and Mr Kenneth Baker , the party chairman , squeezed protectively around her . |
| 24 | And so they sat with clammy hands for an hour and a half and let go only when the lights came back on . |
| 25 | The Englishman returned to his own palatial office and sat with his head in hands . |
| 26 | Dot sat with the yapping dogs on either side licking at her hands . |
| 27 | Dana always sat with his legs wide apart , as if inviting the touch of eyes , if not hands . |
| 28 | You came without warning and without asking my permission and sat with her at the back of the lecture theatre , exchanging glances and comments . |
| 29 | — just sat with her mouth hanging open — like you , just now . ’ |
| 30 | I sat with a tomato juice in front of me for some time straining my ears to hear what Nigel was saying . |