Example sentences of "sat [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There sat the poor thing with its windscreen smashed , its bonnet concertinered and the engine block on the front seat . |
| 2 | Up in the forward end , behind the bulkhead , sat the five other members of G9 , already dressed in thick Navy issue pullovers and fatigues . |
| 3 | On the headland above Praia do Carvoeiro and overlooking the sea sat the small white local church . |
| 4 | On the bare and blackened springs of what once had been the driver 's seat , sat the bare and blackened remains of what once had been something or other . |
| 5 | To the south sat the snowy summit of Mount Eddy . |
| 6 | Stretched out on the pavement lay the huge Godzilla , apparently lifeless , while astride his chest sat the victorious shaven King Kong . |
| 7 | However , there was no computer system to manage the exercise — when the nav wanted a position line or fix he pre-warned the instructor , who sat the other side of the ‘ cockpit ’ facia , and at the appropriate time a piece of paper was pushed through the wall with the details scrawled upon it ! |
| 8 | There was a gigantic salon , clinically white , and in this room sat the collected archons of Sector 23 's palaces of pleasure . |
| 9 | Inside the castle sat the great Daybog and his noble guests , drinking wine from golden cups . |
| 10 | In one of these , perched on a bedstead , sat the senior-most descendant of Genghis Khan , Tamerlane , Babur and Shah Jehan . |
| 11 | Undergraduate pupils of Jack 's throughout the middle years of the 1930s got used to passing through the outer drawing-room of his rooms at Magdalen where sat the mysterious figure of Captain Lewis , typing with two fingers on an ancient black portable . |
| 12 | Mixed in with the beggars sat the occasional hawker eager to empty his stock of mosque caps or rosary beads before the holy month had ended . |
| 13 | There were screens around her bed , and beside it sat the young Sub-lieutenant , almost as motionless as the form under the sheets , staring earnestly at the bandaged head and the small white face . |
| 14 | More than 16,500 students sat the Young Enterprise Europe examination . |
| 15 | well I mean if you 've been in , you sat the opposite way |
| 16 | There the bailiffs pushed and shoved me through a porticoed entrance , down a long , dark , musty passageway into the main well of the court , fastening me to the bar ; beyond it sat the three magistrates before a square table ringed by clerks . |
| 17 | In 1920 she sat the competitive examination to enter the International Labour Office in Geneva and joined its agricultural service . |
| 18 | Behind the familiar trestle table with its grey army blanket , sat the commanding officer flanked by two others of lesser rank . |
| 19 | In front of me sat the smartest and most alert looking person I had ever seen in my life . |
| 20 | There , on the great high-backed oak chair , sat the same enormous rat . |
| 21 | She sat a long time by herself , looking at the forsythia . |
| 22 | Silence as though relief , when suddenly with a creaking and ghostly groaning the lid slid as if off and up sat a terrible apparition with outstretched hand screeching in a hollow voice , give me my gift with such violence , that some of the company fell into the water and had to be saved , and those on the shore scrambled in allways confusion was everywhere . |
| 23 | At the other occupied table sat a lean-visaged but elegant man in dark clothes , reading a paper by candle-light as he ate . |
| 24 | At the controls sat a youngish man in no sort of uniform , and beside him sat an older man in cleanish overalls with grease on his fingers . |
| 25 | Opposite him , in the seat immediately behind the driver , sat a sour-faced Mrs Roscoe , her nicely shaped little nose stuck deep into the text of A Midsummer Night 's Dream . |
| 26 | There were more double doors at the end and in front of them on a tubular chair sat a uniformed constable reading the Sunday Express . |
| 27 | She slipped a small bag off her shoulder and , leaving it by the wall , sat a little way off . |
| 28 | On his head sat a tartan cap , predominantly red . |
| 29 | On the other side sat a pleasant Bedford woman of about thirty years of age . |
| 30 | Before the double dais sat a small , slight , unimpressive man who frequently could not recall , sometimes could not hear and peered at the briefing books through wire-rimmed glasses . |