Example sentences of "[pron] sat [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | For half the trip I sat on the floor of the plane , holding the boy 's hand , watching the drip . |
| 32 | I sat on the floor and played with the children . |
| 33 | I sat on the floor among them and picked oakum . |
| 34 | I sat on the floor and looked up . |
| 35 | The shelves towered above me and from where I sat on the floor it looked as though all of my toys were staring straight at me . |
| 36 | I found the whisky , let myself out of the cellar and locked it , turned all the lights out , gave Mrs McSpadden the bottle , accepted a belated new-year kiss from her , then made my way out through the kitchen and the corridor and the crowded hall where the music sounded loud and people were laughing , and out through the now almost empty entrance hall and down the steps of the castle and down the driveway and down to Gallanach , where I walked along the esplanade — occasionally having to wave or say ‘ Happy New Year ’ to various people I did n't know — until I got to the old railway pier and then the harbour , where I sat on the quayside , legs dangling , drinking my whisky and watching a couple of swans glide on black , still water , to the distant sound of highland jigs coming from the Steam Packet Hotel , and singing and happy-new-year shouts echoing in the streets of the town , and the occasional sniff as my nose watered in sympathy with my eyes . |
| 37 | I sat on the edge of the bed and wrote him a letter in my mind : |
| 38 | I sat on the edge of the bed and felt the earth rolling . |
| 39 | I sat on the edge of a chair . |
| 40 | I sat on the edge of the area all the morning until a solution was found . |
| 41 | That night , as I sat on the edge of my bed , contemplating the tatter of pop posters sellotaped to the flower-patterned wallpaper of my bedroom , I found myself shaking . |
| 42 | For a while I sat on the edge of the bed until Benjamin joined me . |
| 43 | I sat on the edge of Simon 's desk as there were no chairs . |
| 44 | THIS SEASON of violent contrasts started for me on TV-am where , as part of the Christmassy Victorianisation of After Nine , I sat on the sofa in bustle and bare bosom ( well , upper bosom anyway ) and suitably black-lace-becapped to be a Fin de Siecle ( nineteenth variety ) agony aunt . |
| 45 | They put the parcels on the table and tidied the room while Frankie and I sat on the sofa and watched . |
| 46 | Night after night I sat on the sofa looking out to sea , the way Francis had . |
| 47 | I sat on the gallery floor and watched through the balusters . |
| 48 | He sat down on the wooden chair and I sat on the bed . |
| 49 | Back upstairs , I sat on the bed . |
| 50 | I sat on the bed and watched him . |
| 51 | I sat on the bed for a few moments , recovering . |
| 52 | I tried to rouse him but I could n't so I sat on the bed to pull my boots on and the next minute I , too , was asleep . ’ |
| 53 | I can not tell you my thoughts as I sat on the stand and watched the Arsenal playing far below their proper form . |
| 54 | I sat on the quay with my hands down beside me and my fingers over the edge as I put my feet in the boat , ready to get in . |
| 55 | I sat on the divan and he on his high stool by the bench . |
| 56 | And as I sat on the beach , I idly picked up some of the myriad stones lying on the shore , and one of them surprised me with its remarkable colours — it was pure marble glistening and sparkling with mica particles imbedded in it . |
| 57 | It was easy for me to summon up this everyday vision , because whenever I sat on the toilet the hem was stretched between my calves , and if I leant forward it was always the salient object in my view . |
| 58 | I sat on the shore and stared at all the junk left on the beach : beer bottles , paper wrappers , bits of clothing , shreds of cigarettes . |
| 59 | I sat on the pew sucking my sore thumb , staring at the glowing valves , waiting for my father and the hard questions I knew — whatever he said — were coming . |
| 60 | I sat on the earth banking that looks out over the Muddy Creek and ate an apple . |