Example sentences of "she sat with " in BNC.
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| 1 | How long she had been there , we could not be sure , for if she sat with head and tail aligned along the wall , she was invisible from below , and only when she turned sideways did she come into view . |
| 2 | For the first 10 minutes , she sat with her back to me and refused to turn round . |
| 3 | During Mr Kinnock 's amusing budget counter-attack , she sat with Mr Major and Mr Kenneth Baker , the party chairman , squeezed protectively around her . |
| 4 | Sweetheart appeared oblivious to their stares , but Frankie knew she was aware of all the eyes that turned in her direction as she sat with her legs crossed and her head lifted proudly . |
| 5 | One of the high points in the life of Ellen Garwood , a wealthy Texas widow and author , was the day she sat with Reagan in the Oval Office ( ’ we had Sanka ’ ) and told him that he ought to get rid , first , of the Sandinistas , and second of the secretary of state . |
| 6 | She sat with bowed head for a moment then looked directly at him and replied , ‘ It is only my child , sir , the wanting of my child , and suddenly seeing a way to get him , and then it being taken away . |
| 7 | She sat with the mother on the station side of the train . |
| 8 | She sat with Nellie and Brigid Drennan , Tommy 's wife , at the corner table and never said much the whole night . |
| 9 | Once more things were happening she had not caused to happen but now there was a difference and she sat with her back to the tree trying to discover what the difference was . |
| 10 | When she 'd retrieved the ends of the rope and tied it all together , she sat with her back against the load , adjusting the carrying rope over her forehead . |
| 11 | She told Cathy she would pass on the eggs but would like croissants and coffee , and presently I was bringing them to her as she sat with eyes demurely downwards , studiously ignoring my existence . |
| 12 | She sat with her hands in the air , rather like a rodeo cowboy . |
| 13 | She sat with her back to the window and Lee felt somewhat at a loss faced , at last , by the elderly woman in the opaque , black-lensed spectacles and the expensive , rather drab suit , framed by sun-rays admitted through the tall crimson-curtained opening . |
| 14 | This girl looked as if she was on her first assignment , as she sat with pencil poised over her shorthand notebook . |
| 15 | She sat with a lame leg tucked under her . |
| 16 | Dark glasses and make-up could n't hide the lines , and she sat with her face hidden in her hands in the back of the car . |
| 17 | As she sat with a whisky and waited for Constance 's call , she listened to the autumn wind tugging at the corners of the austere house . |
| 18 | She sat with extraordinary stillness , then she said : |
| 19 | Now she sat with her own family and listened to their account of the pantomime . |
| 20 | She sat with her arms folded , hands clasped around the smooth flesh above the elbows , as though she was cold or scared . |
| 21 | She sat with the chicken pot in her lap , tearing off pieces of the bird and handing them round . |
| 22 | I was too upset to eat or drink , but she sat with me for some time , talking gently to me , wiping away my tears , and helping me to recover . |
| 23 | She sat with her back to him , and hid her face with her hands . |
| 24 | Once inside he left her in a dim , dingy room where she sat with her bundle and the firm belief that the cruel joke would soon be over and she 'd be taken back to her ward . |
| 25 | They settled Iris in the passenger seat of the Golf , where she sat with closed eyes . |
| 26 | She sat with a sigh on a black plastic mushroom by the bar . |
| 27 | She sat with the blood thudding in her ears , just as it used to do when her mother began a tirade , and prayed for the impossible , for the carriage to be overturned , for it to be the wrong night , for her to develop a sudden and dangerous illness . |
| 28 | She sat with Aunt Emily again in the early evenings and read to her , staying with her most nights until she had slipped into sleep when she would tiptoe back to her own room and write home to Bewick or to George Langley in Cambridge . |
| 29 | She wanted to leave Alain 's mother with the very best impression and she knew perfectly well that if she sat with Alain there would be only brooding silence . |
| 30 | She changed seats with Hugo so that she sat with her back to the other diners . |