Example sentences of "[pron] sat [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sat without a word . |
| 2 | The classrooms in which such learning takes place may look very different from those in which I sat as a child 50 years ago ( the walls are covered with paintings and there is a computer in the corner , the desks are informally arranged ) but the assumption that all learning is determined , ordered and mediated through the teacher is the common thread which links the schools of the 1980s with those of my pre-war childhood . |
| 3 | ‘ For four years before being appointed full time I sat as a recorder so I have really been sitting in the crown court for 17 years , ’ said Mr Hewitt , whose work on the North Eastern Circuit has taken him to courts from Humberside to the Scottish and Lancashire borders . |
| 4 | Hence when I went to the Lords in 1965 I sat as a cross-bencher , although periodically , according to my attitude at the time , I was supporting one or other of the two parties and rarely took a cross-bench approach . |
| 5 | I sat with a price list . |
| 6 | I sat with a tomato juice in front of me for some time straining my ears to hear what Nigel was saying . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | I sat with a cup of coffee on my lap , still half-asphyxiated by what I took to be Neapolitan warmth . |
| 9 | I sat at a table in the window and drank a filtre . |
| 10 | I sat on a committee chaired by Paul Fox , a big representative steering group for the Royal Television Society 's Biennial Cambridge Convention ( the only woman ) , which he had asked me to be on at that time . |
| 11 | I sat on a log among the shadows of creatures now extinct and others long since departed for pasture in the south . |
| 12 | Perhaps he heard , I do n't know , but he did n't look up and I sat on a stool near the door until it was finished . |
| 13 | I sat on a bench near the door , with my slate . |
| 14 | I sat for a while thinking of what I 'd said and of what he 'd told me , and I still could n't believe that any of the people I 'd come to know so well was really a murderer . |
| 15 | I sat for a while watching the scenery slide by , wild uninhabited stretches of green and autumn-blazing trees , grey rocks and blue lakes punctuated by tiny hamlets and lonely houses , all vivid in the afternoon sunshine , a panoramic impression of the vastness of Canada and the smallness of her population . |
| 16 | I sat for a while holding the baby under my hands . |
| 17 | When he disappeared behind the dunes I sat for a while , scratching my crotch as the wind played with my hair and the birds returned to their nests . |
| 18 | I sat for an hour in my roomette looking out at the unvarying scenery and trying to imagine anything else that Filmer might have paid to have done . |
| 19 | In the communal gardens I did not generally like drawing alone ; children and young teenage boys away from adult supervision , like young people everywhere , would sometimes taunt me or become rude , whereas one time , I sat against a house wall and was looked after by a family . |
| 20 | I dreamed last night that I sat by a fire with Grandmother & my brother & when I woke up I still felt my brother 's hand . |
| 21 | One evening , I sat in a cantina with a row of bottles on the bar , and tried to remember absurdly small things about my own life . |
| 22 | They released me for the day and I sat in a cab desperately trying to keep calm whilst my mind raced through the practicalities of getting Mum back — cancelling the filming , getting the kids looked after for a while if … |
| 23 | I sat in a dhaba in the shade of a tarpaulin , nibbling Id sweets and watching the festive crowds milling all around me . |
| 24 | I sat in a corner looking at the Dutchmen who smiled surreptitiously from the platform . |
| 25 | I sat in a corner and the uneasiness grew . |
| 26 | I sat in an armchair with a copy of Punch and pretended to read it , but my eyes kept going back to those lips and that tiny corner of pink tongue and I was in a turmoil . |
| 27 | I sat in an adjoining room and started off , ‘ My father owned a Roman Catholic prep school in Sussex … ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The only other person in the bar was a tramp who sat without a drink , muttering imprecations and occasionally turning and flashing his bloodshot eyes in the direction of some imaginary enemy to his right and stabbing the air with one crooked finger . |
| 30 | Only two men and a woman , who sat at a centre table , were not at work , though the woman had a piece of sewing in her hands . |