Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] sat [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her sister sat in the rocking-chair by the side of the range , her eyes closed and her foot rhythmically working the rocker . |
| 2 | After dinner the Blemleys and their guests sat in the smoking-room . |
| 3 | The young woman from the coach-house came in and helped Loopy Lil wash dishes in the scullery while her baby sat on the floor chewing on a bone . |
| 4 | That night her father sat on the edge of her bed and stroked her hair , as if she were still a little girl . |
| 5 | Her father sat near the door , staring into a cup of ale which he did not drink . |
| 6 | Her mother sat by the fire , her knitting lying in her lap , eyes closed and spectacles slipped down her nose . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | Anthy what you doing sat under the table |
| 9 | We girls sat on the bed while Mrs Smith sorted out some underclothes for me . |
| 10 | The meal was over , Queen Margaret and Lady Carey had withdrawn and we men sat around the large oaken table , drinking deeply from the wine bowl . |
| 11 | The Prince acknowledged their greetings as he and his favourite sat in the two great throne-like chairs at the high table . |
| 12 | But not everyone ; a young soldier and his girlfriend sat on the balustrade , dangling their legs over the water , oblivious of anyone else . |
| 13 | Barnes and his team sat on the stage amid the gold and maroon decorations and with their tables theatrically draped in material to hide their legs . |
| 14 | He told them they were in for a terrific all singing , all dancing , all laughing evening in the company of a galaxy of West End stars , and he informed them , after a bow to the front row where the CO and his wife sat among the senior officers of the Battalion : |
| 15 | He took his seat carefully in the back ; only Hitler and his ilk sat in the front of chauffeur-driven motor cars . |
| 16 | He 'd seen his mother sat at the end of the bed ages after she was dead , you know . |
| 17 | His mother sat near the window , dressed in black . |
| 18 | Corbett strode back to where Ranulf and his companions sat with the horses . |
| 19 | His companions sat round the kitchen table , the remains of an inadequate breakfast in front of them . |
| 20 | I mean , your mother sat by the fire for years |