Example sentences of "[pron] sat a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During his three years at University College , London , he got work each Christmas with the post office in his home town of Woking : ‘ When I was coming to the end of my university period I sat a civil service examination with possible jobs at the end which included income tax , the secret service and the post office which involved travelling as a management trainee . |
| 2 | She sat a long time by herself , looking at the forsythia . |
| 3 | Next the wife came to the second cavern , where there sat a fearsome bird , large as a mountain ; her feathers were of brass and her beak of iron . |
| 4 | And on they travelled through the forest until they came to a place where the roads crossed and there sat an old woman resting on a stone . |
| 5 | Beside her sat a tousled youth , enveloped in a woolly scarf . |
| 6 | But seated half-way down one side of the table and with no one opposite her sat an old lady . |
| 7 | In it sat a tiny beetle wearing goggles . |