Example sentences of "[pron] sat in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So with all this in mind , as I sat in a long queue of airmen for the preliminary examination , I was thankful . |
| 2 | I sat in a small easy chair , the stiff clothes seeking out the bruises and abrasions of the night , my hand throbbing with pain . |
| 3 | I sat in a thirteenth-century hall in Bruges in September 1988 and listened to Mrs Thatcher 's speech on the future of Europe . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I could not understand his absence ; but suddenly , as I sat in the speeding train , a long way already from El Katara , I caught sight of his white burnous on the banks of the oued . |
| 7 | As I sat in the graceful room looking at Mrs Rumney , cool , poised , tranquil , with the little white creature resting on her knee I could n't help feeling how right and fitting the whole scene was . |
| 8 | I sat in the still shadows and listened to the water bubbling in a ditch beyond the wall . |
| 9 | I sat in the cool , shuttered room and watched the slightly bowed bald head behind the shining black harpsichord . |
| 10 | I sat in the front row of the balcony with tears rolling down my face and feeling nothing at all . |
| 11 | I sat in the front room . |
| 12 | As I sat in the hot taxi I could see Balvinder Singh haggling with one of the healers . |
| 13 | Tonight I sat in the tiny living room of a schoolmaster 's house in Mufakose , one of Salisbury 's African townships . |
| 14 | I sat in the penitential cafe |
| 15 | I sat in an open posture and avoided nervous mannerisms ( i.e. not with arms folded ) . |
| 16 | Someone sat in a little cubby-hole of an office , and there received money conveyed by means of a complicated system of overhead wires . |
| 17 | He himself sat in the first cab opposite Martin 's two partners , Mr Alex Beecham , the senior partner , and Mr James Holden , now the junior partner . |
| 18 | He tasted the delicate fennel-flavoured soup which sat in a shallow bowl in front of him . |
| 19 | ‘ Quits , ’ she said cheerfully , and carried the copper kettle to the brass tap let into the front of the water tank which sat in the big iron stove alongside the kitchen fire , and ran the hot water into it before she set it not on the fire , but on a small gas ring in the corner , lighting the gas with a match from a box of Swan Vestas . |
| 20 | I should perhaps add that I was not a member of the committee who heard these appeals in the first hearing since I became involved only when your Lordships who sat in the first hearing suggested a second hearing under my chairmanship and accordingly I have not been asked to consider this matter apart from the discussion of the extracts from Hansard which have been put before us in this appeal . |
| 21 | Maisie and Joan , who collected catkins in the woods with me ; Lucy , who was always polite and a beautiful writer ; three very naughty boys who sat in the front row and made a nuisance of themselves : every teacher has memories like these . |
| 22 | Backstage , in Therese 's dressing room , all was excitement and congratulations — Willi , old Anton , Alfred , the entire Hochhauser Theatre committee complete with the Easter egg — the expensive dress had found an occasion worthy of a second showing — and Hans , a smugly self-satisfied Hans who sat in the only chair sipping a glass of champagne provided by Willi . |
| 23 | She saw in her mind the woman who sat in the same seat day after day . |
| 24 | Another survey , published in 1975 , covers the period 1876–1972 and , with a few omissions , analyses the 317 judges who sat in the High Court , the Court of Appeal and the House of Lords during that period . |
| 25 | ‘ 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 . |
| 26 | Two days later , she sat in a small bar , which was the latest haunt of the upwardly-mobile in Washington DC . |
| 27 | Edward paid the taxi driver in advance and all the way home she sat in a happy daze . |
| 28 | She sat in a quiet , dark corner listening to the service . |
| 29 | The following day he bought her a bunch of violets and dropped them on her lap as she sat in the prompt corner . |
| 30 | Queen Sofia of Spain , who is Patron of both charities , came over from Madrid for the Gala , and looked lovely in a pink taffeta dress ; she sat in the front row of chairs beside her brother King Constantine of the Hellenes , and near Queen Anne-Marie and Princess Irene of the Hellenes , and the Spanish Ambassador and Señora Puig de la Bellacasa . |