Example sentences of "[pron] sat [prep] an [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 | I sat on an upturned box , feeling the sweat beginning to trickle down my back . |
| 3 | I sat in an open posture and avoided nervous mannerisms ( i.e. not with arms folded ) . |
| 4 | For the next four years he sat as an engrossing clerk on a stool in the dusty office , so thick with dust that it entered the sunbeams ; and bent over crabbed writing in the books , or showed dull clients in to see his father , or sat the examinations , which he passed . |
| 5 | Fred would listen patiently until he could stand no more and then depart to the small back yard , where he sat on an upturned tea-chest and vowed that one day he would forget how efficient his kitchen hand was and just do away with her . |
| 6 | He sat in an old deck chair and the two girls sat on the ground , each leaning against one of his legs . |
| 7 | It sat upon an ancient heathen site , a site far darker than anything I could ever have conceived and it instantly became part of my well of strength . |