Example sentences of "sat [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | AS the Prince and Princess of Wales sat only a few feet apart in Seoul 's Presidential palace yesterday they could have been mistaken for strangers uncomfortably thrown together . |
| 2 | He sat only a few feet from the screen , perched on the edge of the bed , a study in confusion and misery . |
| 3 | The ship , large and grey , sat only a few hundred metres from the assault force . |
| 4 | She reddened and bobbed her head and sat down a little awkwardly . |
| 5 | As soon as he sat down a slave laid a plate in front of him . |
| 6 | As we sat down a little way away from the rest of the group , I saw a small girl waving her hamster 's cage at the sky . |
| 7 | While Nyasha bravely went into the temple and there sitting on the throne that was made only for the chiefs there sat not a king not a prince |
| 8 | It 'll be all hands on deck from now on , ’ Moran told the girls as they sat over a late breakfast . |
| 9 | She just sat over a leisurely breakfast and planned her day , and never looked back after that . |
| 10 | An old man sat over a half pint of stout . |
| 11 | As she sat over a pot of tea in a quiet café she reminded herself that it was really expecting too much to find a flat as quickly as she had landed a job . |
| 12 | Somehow I sat up a bit . |
| 13 | Mr Rose sat up a little . |
| 14 | Dierdriu sat up a little straighter . |
| 15 | She sat up a little straighter and resolved to regard her host with more of an open mind . |
| 16 | Sladen looked at George , who reluctantly sat up a bit straighter , and said : ‘ Until your chap did talk , I imagine Major Maxim thought he was being followed by a bunch of Kremlin cowboys . ’ |
| 17 | Kate took one of her mother 's hands and held it to her cheek , but her mother promptly sat up a little straighter . |
| 18 | With sudden energy , her ladyship sat up a little straighter , raising her frail body in the bed . |
| 19 | ‘ I sat back a little bit more than usual and made sure things were organised . |
| 20 | Louisa sat back a little on the bed to allow her greater room to breathe , to speak . |
| 21 | Guido sat back a little , mercifully obscuring his eyelashes in shadow . |
| 22 | She sat back a little more relaxed in her seat . |
| 23 | And I think they sat back a little bit , you know , and maybe tried to defend the three nothing lead . |
| 24 | The next day , Christmas Day , I could not do anything , just sat around a lot of the time , lost in my own thoughts . |
| 25 | In the vaulted auditorium to which they were carried , a score and a half of robed figures sat around a horseshoe of data-desks . |
| 26 | I sat there a long time , bored , with a cold bottom , and I was about to open the pub door to tell him I was going home when I saw the organ grinder trundling his barrel-organ down the street . |
| 27 | Li Yuan sat there a moment longer , thinking over the satisfactions of the last few days , recollecting the great feeling of ch'i , of pure energy , he had experienced in dealing with these matters . |
| 28 | We sat there a while , almost dark inside after Mendez dropped the side curtains , not saying anything , feeling the coach move up and down on its leather thoroughbraces as the boy who worked for us put the travelling bags in the rear end boot and covered them with a canvas . |
| 29 | Congregation , congregation , it 's not sort of all sort of these people sat there a disco or something do n't they ? |
| 30 | In 1986 , the Hart family sat round a table playing a game of ‘ What if … ? ’ |