Example sentences of "[pron] sat [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ You sat on a low step , Modigliani , your cries were those of a stormy petrel … ‘ , wrote Ehrenburg in a poem written early in 1915 . |
| 32 | One of the things that some chaps found amusing when they went to the " heads " ( the head is what the Navy calls the loo ) , you sat in a long row and a great flush of water ran right through a row of 20 or 30 . |
| 33 | We sat at a special table and just told jokes about the Russians , the Americans , and ourselves . ’ |
| 34 | It began to get quite hot so we sat on a mossy bank and shared an orange . |
| 35 | Joe made room for me with the same amount of good grace he might have afforded an enemy invading his castle and we sat for a few minutes without speaking , inspecting the view . |
| 36 | Once inside , we sat through a fascinating short on turtle-trapping in the Galapagos Islands or some such thing , and twenty minutes of mouth-watering trailers and commercials . |
| 37 | We sat in a high vestibule between the street and the courtyard . |
| 38 | We sat in a gothic cafeteria . |
| 39 | Well only just to really , actually all Mr Mr has er said , and just one other bit of information , the time when the Chairman of the council extended the invitation to sixth formers , looking for alternative entertainment for the sixth formers of school , after they sat through a full council , I took them over to the er archivists er department , and we saw the paper restor , sorry , should n't say paper restorer , manuscript restorer at work , and these sixth formers , already knew of the existence , one of them asked to see the records of parish , because he knew they were there , and I mean , I think this is wonderful , that the sixth formers already , er children are being taught about the ar the records , and they will want to be sure that we kept them , and I think it 's our moral duty to keep er , the records of the past for future generations . |
| 40 | They sat for a long time in silence watching the Atlantic crash down on the empty shore . |
| 41 | They sat for a long time on brown plastic seats in a white corridor . |
| 42 | Now that Elizabeth had exhausted the topic of Martha , they sat for a few moments in silence , one each side of the fire with a cup of tea . |
| 43 | They sat at a low bench hard against the wall . |
| 44 | They sat at a rickety table on the perimeter of the square , under the shade of an umbrella , sipping espresso , eating anisette biscuits , and watching the large , colourful crowd . |
| 45 | They sat at a small table by the window . |
| 46 | They sat at a circular wrought iron table shaded by a willow . |
| 47 | They sat in a dark room , the only light coming from a candle burning in the passage outside . |
| 48 | So to while away the time while they waited for dark again they sat in a back room and fiished the waistcoat . |
| 49 | They sat in a fashionable Italian restaurant in the city . |
| 50 | He sat astride a ladder-backed wooden chair , his legs splayed out in front of him . |
| 51 | When he came back in the evening he sat for a long time gazing out across the V-shaped valley leading south . |
| 52 | And he sat for a long time in a melancholy reverie as the ants continued to drift down , thinking of the futility of all endeavour . |
| 53 | He sat as a Unionist councillor and , when the Unionist Party became dominated by powersharers , he moved to Vanguard , then to Baird 's United Ulster Unionist Party , and only switched to Paisley 's Democratic Unionist Party after the demise of the UUUP . |
| 54 | When arrangements were made in the summer of 1278 to establish two permanent circuits of the general eyre he was one of the justices appointed to the ‘ northern ’ circuit and he sat as a junior justice in every eyre of that circuit down to 1288 . |
| 55 | Though not a Leveller sympathizer , he sat as a leading London Independent on the committee that drafted the second Agreement of the People . |
| 56 | He sat on a small stone bench opposite the priest 's house , half dozing , still relishing the memory of his meeting with de Craon . |
| 57 | While Auntie Lou set out the food , he sat on a flat rock to recover and talked about the old days . |
| 58 | The estimable Anderson spoke half-truths as his friend and fellow bag-carrier , Billy Gunn , now explained as he sat on a green caddies ' bench and waited for the call to duty . |
| 59 | He sat on a huge leather chair with a sigh of relief and it was clear to Hari that his leg had been giving him trouble . |
| 60 | ‘ But I think it is a pointless exercise , ’ said Floy , somewhere towards morning , a thin , cold light filtering in through the windows to where he sat at a great desk , his black hair tumbled , hollows in his cheeks , his face white with fatigue . |