Example sentences of "[pron] sat [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sat without a word . |
| 2 | The classrooms in which such learning takes place may look very different from those in which I sat as a child 50 years ago ( the walls are covered with paintings and there is a computer in the corner , the desks are informally arranged ) but the assumption that all learning is determined , ordered and mediated through the teacher is the common thread which links the schools of the 1980s with those of my pre-war childhood . |
| 3 | ‘ For four years before being appointed full time I sat as a recorder so I have really been sitting in the crown court for 17 years , ’ said Mr Hewitt , whose work on the North Eastern Circuit has taken him to courts from Humberside to the Scottish and Lancashire borders . |
| 4 | Hence when I went to the Lords in 1965 I sat as a cross-bencher , although periodically , according to my attitude at the time , I was supporting one or other of the two parties and rarely took a cross-bench approach . |
| 5 | I was up early next morning with a clanging hangover , and as I sat beside the bed watching Dana sleep , I wrote one of the several poems of that period about insomnia and my vigil over my sleeping friend 's form , ‘ The Lonely Insomniac ’ : |
| 6 | He shouted at me so I sat under the table and waited for him to put some food down . |
| 7 | Normally a sucker , I sat under the piano and chewed ravenously , ripping the cellophane off the next and the next as I did so . |
| 8 | Well , I sat through the service , tryin' not ter fall asleep , an' then the tea an' biscuits came round . |
| 9 | The point I I simply wanted to make which is why I I sat through the debate , erm is the honourable member for Edinburgh Central er in his er speech er which I I must say I did expect , called for stronger regulations , er we had the argument the other week about whether there should be statutory regulations or whether we should make er the er self regulation system that we have with financial services industries work . |
| 10 | From where I sat above the computer wizardry , it looked as though all three girls touched simultaneously . |
| 11 | I sat with a price list . |
| 12 | I sat with a tomato juice in front of me for some time straining my ears to hear what Nigel was saying . |
| 13 | I had my ideas worked out by the time I left for the 1960–61 Tasman series , and on the 24-hour flight to New Zealand I sat with a slide rule and drew the car as a pin-jointed structure , stressed it and arrived at all the tube sizes . ’ |
| 14 | I sat with a cup of coffee on my lap , still half-asphyxiated by what I took to be Neapolitan warmth . |
| 15 | Four days on , I sat with the Sheikha 's brother , the boy 's uncle , on the bay-window couch . |
| 16 | I sat at a table in the window and drank a filtre . |
| 17 | The next problem was how to deliver it , since I sat at the back in English ( our next lesson ) and Belinda sat at the front — which was how I knew that her hair touched her chair ! |
| 18 | A lovely lady , Molly Braithwaite , came to teach , and one day as I sat at the back I felt ‘ Surely I could do a little of that gently swinging ’ , picked up a club , and was off ‘ moving with the Medau ’ . |
| 19 | I sat at the kitchen table , staring at the blind white blankness in front of me , and slowly , like a clear spring welling up from the common earth , the poem rose and spread and filled me , unstoppable as flood water , technique unknotting even as it ran , like snags rolled away on the flood . |
| 20 | I SAT AT THE BAR of the Late Nite Lounge , watching the floor show . |
| 21 | Back in my room , I sat at the desk and considered . |
| 22 | About 8 p.m. that evening Taff and I sat at the side of our slit trench eating what I thought was a rather dubious lump of meat . |
| 23 | I sat at the front of the coach , next to the driver . |
| 24 | At dinner the two cholerics carried on a huddled conversation while I sat at the end of the row feeling the cutlery might melt in my hands . |
| 25 | In any case it would be better if I sat at the table , the light was better there and I should not get lazy . |
| 26 | I sat at the table we used to use and tried to think what I really believed . |
| 27 | I sat on a committee chaired by Paul Fox , a big representative steering group for the Royal Television Society 's Biennial Cambridge Convention ( the only woman ) , which he had asked me to be on at that time . |
| 28 | I sat on a log among the shadows of creatures now extinct and others long since departed for pasture in the south . |
| 29 | Perhaps he heard , I do n't know , but he did n't look up and I sat on a stool near the door until it was finished . |
| 30 | I sat on a bench near the door , with my slate . |