Example sentences of "[pron] sat [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once I sat with an American psychiatrist , a specialist in eating behaviour , and observed a hugely overweight couple ( quite unaware that we were watching them ) eating their restaurant breakfasts . |
| 2 | When I got to higher ground , I sat on a long , flat slab of white rock in a salmon-pink sea . |
| 3 | I was drinking Monk and Monk was a heavy beer so fuck I gets out of the car and fucking oh fuck , but anyway said to me look I 'll go up , say my name , and I 'll bring you home , I was living with my sister at the time and I sat on a wee low wall , I 'm just the wall , fu fuck I , in the middle of the day , nobody , they were just drinking er Dawn this is way were , it 's fucking maybe twenty five years ago , twenty six and er fuck he sat me on the wall he had to s I could n't see he says to me er fucking I heard a voice , Raymond like this is the exam tonight you 'll have to sit there . |
| 4 | I sat on a large stone , shivering and looked north appealingly , shouting , ‘ Mick ! |
| 5 | I sat on an upturned box , feeling the sweat beginning to trickle down my back . |
| 6 | Upstream , through the gorge known as the Wachau , runs one of the prettiest stretches of the river and I sat for a pleasant hour on its embankment watching the swallows skim its waters . |
| 7 | Afterwards I sat for a long time trying to reconcile myself to these new ideas . |
| 8 | I sat for a long while , clutching the unfinished poem , gazing beyond it . |
| 9 | I sat upon a disintegrating gravestone . |
| 10 | I sat beneath a metal-framed photograph ( black and white ) of fishing-boats at the Ile d'Oleron . |
| 11 | I laughed silently as I sat against a hard cushion in the palm-frond house looking at the brown eyes around me . |
| 12 | So with all this in mind , as I sat in a long queue of airmen for the preliminary examination , I was thankful . |
| 13 | I sat in a small easy chair , the stiff clothes seeking out the bruises and abrasions of the night , my hand throbbing with pain . |
| 14 | I sat in a thirteenth-century hall in Bruges in September 1988 and listened to Mrs Thatcher 's speech on the future of Europe . |
| 15 | Gandalf says as much at II , 99 , though he is laconic about it — ‘ I sat in a high place ( the great tree in Lothlórien ? ] , and I strove with the Dark Tower ’ — since Aragorn and the others he is addressing can have no idea what is being referred to . |
| 16 | Last Sunday I sat in a cold room with my daughter , the two of us reviling the malign fate which had robbed us of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea , our weekly TV fix . |
| 17 | I sat in an open posture and avoided nervous mannerisms ( i.e. not with arms folded ) . |
| 18 | Someone sat in a little cubby-hole of an office , and there received money conveyed by means of a complicated system of overhead wires . |
| 19 | He tasted the delicate fennel-flavoured soup which sat in a shallow bowl in front of him . |
| 20 | The women who sat beside a single basket of herbs , or wild mushrooms they had gathered that morning in the dew , high in the hills , were tanned so dark they might have washed in walnut juice . |
| 21 | Used originally by Tallymen who sat behind a high desk to keep account of cargo being unloaded , and later adapted by film directors , you 'll find this seat ideal if you have a breakfast bar . |
| 22 | She sat for a long while , until her limbs became cold and stiff and her mind numb with tiredness and misery . |
| 23 | She sat with a lame leg tucked under her . |
| 24 | He stood before her as she sat on a low chair , and drenched her with his urine . |
| 25 | She sat on a hard chair . |
| 26 | On impulse , she bought a recently published history of the region under the Occupation and took it to a pavement café , where she sat under a gaudy sunshade , idly sipping coffee and glancing through her book , but finding the passing show around her far more diverting . |
| 27 | ‘ Gee , ’ Charity Marlowe responded drily from where she sat in a decrepit upholstered chair , her head thrown back , her hair hidden under a towel , and her eyes clenched tightly shut . |
| 28 | Two days later , she sat in a small bar , which was the latest haunt of the upwardly-mobile in Washington DC . |
| 29 | Edward paid the taxi driver in advance and all the way home she sat in a happy daze . |
| 30 | She sat in a quiet , dark corner listening to the service . |