Example sentences of "sat there [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her eyes , threatening to turn from amber to gold as the two of them sat there over a casual dinner on her balcony , briefly dared him to develop the theme , just before she dropped them . |
| 2 | Perhaps this is , this is something we could we could , we could use to talk about in some revision seminar at the beginning of next term cos we , we , we 've sort of got up to nineteen fifty two erm maybe it would be helpful if , if sort of you know we just sat there over the vacation and then come back and sort of have look |
| 3 | I du n no if they got nests or nothing to go to at night , but sat there under that bush all huddled up , they look froze to death . |
| 4 | And Preston sat there beside her , patting her ineffectually on the shoulder , saying , ‘ It 's all right , it 's all right , really , it 's all right , ’ until finally the sobbing stopped , too , and her eyes closed and she gave a great , shuddering sigh and slept . |
| 5 | Sat there through the night , closing my eyes at times , then opening them slowly and allowing the glass to impose itself . |
| 6 | I sat there with my elbows on the table . |
| 7 | S. H. There was a lot of us on reserve duty at St George 's Hall , about forty or fifty of us , and one bloody bobby sat there with us and they sent for him . |
| 8 | As I sat there with metal ticking away as it cooled and steam rising around the engines , I tried to open the door only to find it jammed . |
| 9 | As I sat there with metal ticking away as it cooled and steam rising around the engines , I tried to open the door only to find it jammed . |
| 10 | ‘ A dreadful tyrant ’ is the verdict of Lev Markiz , founder-conductor of the Moscow Soloists — ‘ the whole orchestra began to tune their instruments an hour before the rehearsal was due to start , and 30 minutes later them sat there with instruments tuned , ready to begin ’ . |
| 11 | He sat there with his leg wagging |
| 12 | He sat there with his hand still open . |
| 13 | I let the housecoat fall open , but he just sat there with me on his lap . |
| 14 | They sat there with the door open to let the temperature drop before driving off . |
| 15 | ‘ I have brought you a brandy , ’ he added when she just sat there with the towel completely over her head . |
| 16 | Pike just sat there with a toupee and tears all over his face , and we sat there staring at him . |
| 17 | I sat there with his words washing over me like warm water , I was n't mad . |
| 18 | Sat there with her arms folded like that |
| 19 | Yeah , he was in agony there , so any way carry him to the toilet , sat him on the toilet and sort of sat there with him a bit trying to make him go a wee , cos I thought perhaps he full bladder and could n't |
| 20 | Just sat there with Kate and then suddenly it was erm mum what 's hooker ? |
| 21 | You remind me of bit , eh , you 're like a bit what Joanne 's like , except Joanne 's better at maths but she 's not very good at English , like when they were doing Animal Farm , I had to explain that it was a parody of the Russian revolution and everything and she just sat there with her mouth open . |
| 22 | You and the bloody telly , he sat there with the ashtray in his hand and all bloody ash is falling out the bottom ! |
| 23 | Oh yeah it was lovely , the only trouble was we had pigs outside the fucking window and we sat there with the bacon |
| 24 | As we sat there at the wedding-feast I held to the pedestrian belief that the rustling jetsam at my feet was merely the accumulation of champagne foil . |
| 25 | When he sat there at table it was as if he held himself in check . |
| 26 | The other thing I wondered when I was watching the video , you sat there at one stage , while I was writing and I thought , I thought , what are you thinking ? |
| 27 | I said he 's my father and then he falls out the fucking bed when they put him in it because they admit negligence , they forgot to put the cot side up , dad has got lack of oxygen to his bra brain , he thought it was the Battle of Hastings going on but they said there was nobody there , well surely they must have known Joy he fell out the bloody bed because he 's laying like this and he 's falling and he 's falling and bang come out , he split all his bloody head open , do you know the blood was there from the night he fell out , he fell out at half past ten at night and they never informed us , which is against the law and the blood still sat there at quarter to four the following day , all over the floor , he 's got a bloody stitch in his head which they done to him while he were in the bed , and ripped three tubes out of his arm , split all his bloody arm open |
| 28 | If I sat there at night |
| 29 | And they sat in the car with the windows down in the freezing dawn and they watched the distant city lights going out under the dawn at five in the morning , they sat there for a full half hour , looking , and thinking how beautiful the city looked at this time and at this distance … |
| 30 | He sat there for a few minutes . |