Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] sat [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last spring I sat in the Windows on the World restaurant on the 45th floor of the World Trade Center , whose twin towers are a New York landmark . |
| 2 | After making the tea she sat at the kitchen table to drink it , and was still sitting there when dawn broke . |
| 3 | " The gentlemen who sat on the bench were more or less connected with the shipping trade , and the law had been somewhat strained to obtain the conviction " . |
| 4 | He stood diffidently to the side of a group , or featured as a background — the pair of legs clutched by baby Louise , a blurred figure in a field beyond Helen and Edward who sat on a rug eating sandwiches . |
| 5 | After he had made a pot of tea they sat near the range and surveyed each other . |
| 6 | On the first-floor terrace they sat at the round table while Roman did the honours with gin and tonics . |
| 7 | When he ‘ found his car he sat behind the wheel , gripping it so tight he could 've snapped it . |
| 8 | Another few totters and another series of hasty hoppity-skips , and they were looking down at a ramshackle wooden building which sat in a hollow among yellow bushes of gorse . |
| 9 | After lunch I sat in the car and listened to a Bush press conference . |
| 10 | It was a gabled Victorian house set behind a high red brick wall in the heart of the city and as Rachel drew on to the gravel forecourt she sat for a moment admiring the mass of copper beeches that surrounded the house . |
| 11 | Another survey , published in 1975 , covers the period 1876–1972 and , with a few omissions , analyses the 317 judges who sat in the High Court , the Court of Appeal and the House of Lords during that period . |
| 12 | Rape was not charged but there are dicta on the subject from six of the 13 judges who sat in the case . |
| 13 | Wycliffe was startled by the question , which did not come from Sarah but from an old lady who sat on the far side of the fire . |
| 14 | ‘ This is April , ’ he said , indicating a nondescript , darkish girl who sat on a corner of the sofa . |
| 15 | The photograph was n't very much like the girl who sat on the other side of the desk , but passport photographs seldom are much like their originals . |
| 16 | He removed his arm from her shoulders and leaned back against the wall , his gaze still on the fair-haired young girl who sat on the bicycle , ready to move off , the wind blowing her skirt and hair . |
| 17 | I will never forget a girl who sat in the living-room of our home in Switzerland . |
| 18 | The girl who sat in the reception area and answered the switchboard was called Lucinda . |
| 19 | But insisted that we got into a rowing boat instead , so we did , and after failures to dissuade us , we were promptly joined by three park-keepers who sat in the boat and insisted on ‘ helping ’ us to row ! |
| 20 | With his young assistant and a much-loved black cat we sat on the floor of his studio , sipped mint tea and listened to his words relating to the ancient science . |
| 21 | She began by waking up on the tail-end of absorbing conversations with the white-robed monk who sat on the chair beside her , and it was n't long before the discussions became a full-time activity . |
| 22 | The rest of the place was empty except for Devlin who sat at a table against the far wall reading a small book , a glass of beer at his hand . |
| 23 | It was a disappointed Graham who sat in the clubhouse after his second defeat . |
| 24 | Backstage , in Therese 's dressing room , all was excitement and congratulations — Willi , old Anton , Alfred , the entire Hochhauser Theatre committee complete with the Easter egg — the expensive dress had found an occasion worthy of a second showing — and Hans , a smugly self-satisfied Hans who sat in the only chair sipping a glass of champagne provided by Willi . |
| 25 | He looked at Lady Horne who sat on the other side of the fireplace , an ivory and pearl rosary entwined around her fingers . |
| 26 | Before her appearance she sat by the edge of the stage completely terrified . |
| 27 | In the living room she sat by the fire and glanced again at the envelope . |
| 28 | That evening we sat on the train bound for Paris . |
| 29 | The water had to be drawn up out of one of a battery of long-necked cisterns behind the cottage , and when we had done that and fed the plants we sat on a seat by the Priapus arbour , with the unusual smell , in summer Greece , of verdant wet earth all around us . |
| 30 | When he came back in the evening he sat for a long time gazing out across the V-shaped valley leading south . |