Example sentences of "[pron] sit [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the best part of an hour I sat swearing in a blocked tunnel under Westway . |
| 2 | I was shown into an empty office where I sat waiting for a minimum of ten minutes . |
| 3 | The dark taproom was dominated by a morose Cranston , who sat slumped on a bench with his back against the wall . |
| 4 | And what she saw was a handsome dark-haired young man who sat laughing with a girl in a bright green dress . |
| 5 | She sat wedged between a bureau and a wet mattress . |
| 6 | We sat facing across a desk in a rather denuded office in Carlos Lott 's building which resembles an unravelling hat box . |
| 7 | We sat chatting for a few minutes after finishing our meal . |
| 8 | Here it sits waiting for a dose of stress to weaken your immune system when out it pops . |
| 9 | When I asked him for his reaction , he sat hunched behind a table in his little palace , his head hanging down , his half-moon spectacles on the end of his nose . |
| 10 | I looked across to where he sat hunched like a crow over carrion , and thought what a cantankerous old sod he could be when he chose . |