Example sentences of "[pron] sat on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , it was only a bedsitter and Andrea and I sat on the one divan having a smoke and a glass of the fizzy stuff I always brought her , and I said , ‘ What about slipping between the sheets ’ ? ’ |
| 2 | The next morning I sat on the front steps with my head in my hands . |
| 3 | Wycliffe was startled by the question , which did not come from Sarah but from an old lady who sat on the far side of the fire . |
| 4 | The Minister of State at the Home Office , Alice Bacon , who sat on the Labour Party 's National Executive , had been a member , while two others , Mrs Serota and Dr T.C.N. Gibbens , were included amongst the membership of the Royal Commission . |
| 5 | The photograph was n't very much like the girl who sat on the other side of the desk , but passport photographs seldom are much like their originals . |
| 6 | He looked at Lady Horne who sat on the other side of the fireplace , an ivory and pearl rosary entwined around her fingers . |
| 7 | Those of us who sat on the urban policies committee for a number of years seeing Moat devour and all the stoppages and problems there , knew that you were taking the wrong line . |
| 8 | The interesting factor in all those arguments is that my hon. Friends who sat on the respective Committees or spoke on the Second Reading of Bills associated with privatisation said at the time that the Government were privatising monopoly , not introducing effective competition and regulation , and the matter would have to be examined again . |
| 9 | Macmillan showered political honours on his backbenchers like confetti , and during the thirteen years of Conservative government which ended in 1964 over two hundred MPs , one third of all those who sat on the Tory benches , were rewarded with some sort of gong . |
| 10 | She sat on the small stove for some while gradually becoming more agitated . |
| 11 | Either the mermaid was energetically breasting the waves or she sat on the upturned keel of a drowned vessel and combed out long and improbably yellow hair . |
| 12 | Now she grew herbs along the south-facing wall at the end ; and in summer she sat on the tiny lawn , smelling the yellow roses and watching the clematis creeping over the fence from next door . |
| 13 | After that she sat on the morning-room steps watching the day slide off the face of Old Carrots field . |
| 14 | She sat on the opposite couchette and picked up the paperback he had been reading . |
| 15 | She sat on the hard hall-stool beside the telephone , safe in the semi-darkness and waited for Dorothea and her friend Florence Ames who was a nurse , someone who would recognise her condition instantly , who would be on hand should emergency treatment be required , who was trained and capable . |
| 16 | Henniker moved a chair for her , and she sat on the extreme edge of it . |
| 17 | She sat on the back door step , in the morning sunshine , bare feet on William 's fawn and white belly , aimlessly pulling at his soft ears . |
| 18 | We sat on the opposite sides of the partition and sensed each other 's misery . |
| 19 | ‘ They kept the fighting till later when they sat on the management-union joint negotiation committee . |
| 20 | The hills themselves looked asleep , the heather glowed dust-blue in the hazy light , and the people , after a night of little sleep and hours of walking and standing , now looked stunned as they sat on the grassy banks , leaned on dykes , or lay on their backs in the hayfields , munching oatcakes and drinking the last of their water . |
| 21 | It was Paula 's job to show samples , parading slowly up and down in front of the clients as they sat on the elegant spindle-leg chairs taking in every detail of the garments with a critical and practised eye . |
| 22 | They sat on the second row of choir benches to the left of the altar . |
| 23 | All through the morning , as they sat on the makeshift bunks , they stared without comment at the kneeling figure who ground away at the rust around the bolt . |
| 24 | They sat on the soft sand above the tide line while Adam ate ; there had always been fewer stones here , on this remote end of the beach where hardly anyone came . |
| 25 | They sat on the little bit of flat roof above the attic skylight , behind a low parapet . |
| 26 | He sat on the appropriate boards of the International Olympic Committee and was President of the General Assembly of International Sports Federations for 17 years . |
| 27 | He sat on the low wall surrounding the pier gardens . |
| 28 | He sat on the wooden chair in the corner and looked at Lambert as if he were a self-confessed criminal . |
| 29 | He sat on the chintz-covered couch to the side of the fireplace and , leaning his head back , looked about him . |
| 30 | Back in the room , he made her kneel before him , as he sat on the upright chair . |