Example sentences of "[pron] sat [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 61 | He sat at a makeshift desk of unfinished lumber , and wrote and played with his thinning hair . |
| 62 | He sat at a large desk covered with papers , journals , medical books , a portable typewriter pushed to one end . |
| 63 | He sat with a small radar screen in front of him , writing up the small strips that are used by controllers all over the world , strips that have all the different aircraft information on them . |
| 64 | Colonel Bauer , a German staff officer , wrote : ‘ He sat with a pallid face gazing at the map , dead to all feeling , a broken man . ’ |
| 65 | He sat behind a big table with a television , three computers and five telephones . |
| 66 | He sat in a rocking chair that faced the door . |
| 67 | As he sat in a roaring solitary splendour twenty thousand feet over the turbulent , endless ocean wastes , he had no idea of the appropriateness of the poem he had just read . |
| 68 | And so while he sat in a German public library and the story of the murder in the park unfolded before him in the newspapers , a novel began to stir . |
| 69 | He sat by a great semi-circular window which looked out into darkness pierced at regular intervals by the beam of the lighthouse . |
| 70 | Barlaston 's problem was that it sat astride a geological fault ( i.e. the junction of two different types of substrata ) . |