Example sentences of "sat in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there were other interesting visitors from down the strath — Cameron the builder , who came late , and sat in a pew near the back beside Donald Stewart , the blacksmith from Grandtully . |
| 2 | She sat in a corner on an antique settle as far away as possible from the blazing open fire . |
| 3 | And so while he sat in a German public library and the story of the murder in the park unfolded before him in the newspapers , a novel began to stir . |
| 4 | They sat in a place vast enough to ‘ house a fleet of Zeppelins ’ . |
| 5 | The audience sat in a warm honey glow , drinking tea and eating richly iced cake . |
| 6 | After a short while they retired to the back room and sat in a kind of play-pen atmosphere analysing Judit 's most recent game with a young American visitor . |
| 7 | More prisoners of war sat in a car park under guard , their legs crossed and their hands tied behind their backs . |
| 8 | Putting the plates down , Bella sat in a chair and pulled Jinny towards her . |
| 9 | At the Lock , Marie sat in a hollow in the sand-hills by the canal and waited for the magic to start ; she waited for everything to be made all right . |
| 10 | Later , he sat in a café , drinking cappuccino , and watched his own obituary on the network news . |
| 11 | I sat in a thirteenth-century hall in Bruges in September 1988 and listened to Mrs Thatcher 's speech on the future of Europe . |
| 12 | Last Sunday I sat in a cold room with my daughter , the two of us reviling the malign fate which had robbed us of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea , our weekly TV fix . |
| 13 | FERGUS sat in a glass case resplendent in Limerick Green . |
| 14 | At 2pm on Wednesday 12 February , John Hutt sat in a dry ditch within easy view of the small Touchen End baker 's shop . |
| 15 | Four gringos sat in a row in the chief 's office with the dejected look of the recently robbed . |
| 16 | For our part , we all sat in a cellar and talked about other things ( I think ) . |
| 17 | In the sacristy , long after a sombre Father Donnelly had left him , Father Paddy O'Neil , still in his new vestments , sat in a chair by the window as the afternoon shadows lengthened . |
| 18 | I sat in a corner looking at the Dutchmen who smiled surreptitiously from the platform . |
| 19 | Down a metal stairway from the lane was a small square of benches where the newspaper delivery boys sat in a queue , awaiting their turn with Mr. Ted Pegg , Circulation Manager , to receive the papers for delivery . |
| 20 | Someone sat in a little cubby-hole of an office , and there received money conveyed by means of a complicated system of overhead wires . |
| 21 | ‘ Children sat mesmerised while we adults sat in a state of suspended disbelief ’ Edinburgh |
| 22 | At the plant where the dioxin originated , 1000 litres of waste contaminated with up to 300 000 parts per billion of dioxin sat in a tank . |
| 23 | The 1980 winner , Allan Wells , sat in a television studio in London ; in Dallas , Texas , the man rated by some as the fastest of them all , Bob Hayes , the 1964 champion from Tokyo , sat watching and waiting , memories stirring in him ; and Harrison Dillard watched from Cleveland , Ohio , the oldest living sprint gold medallist , winner at London 's Wembley Stadium in 1948 . |
| 24 | Edward paid the taxi driver in advance and all the way home she sat in a happy daze . |
| 25 | She sat in a corner of the playroom , dressed in the brown serge dress and white apron she had been given , and tried to think how she could run away . |
| 26 | As he sat in a roaring solitary splendour twenty thousand feet over the turbulent , endless ocean wastes , he had no idea of the appropriateness of the poem he had just read . |
| 27 | After dinner he went out with four of the ladies from Leicester , including his special friend Pamela Berry , to The Crown , where they sat in a corner of the lounge bar until closing time . |
| 28 | It was starting to rain , so the three of us sat in a bus shelter . |
| 29 | I went and sat in a field and experienced that great bubbling up of love for the Father and for Jesus which I expressed alternately in English and in this new language which I did not understand but which I knew was to be addressed to God and which built me up as I used it . |
| 30 | The new 60 seater trolleybuses were numbered 64–93 and although full-fronted , the driver sat in a half-cab inside , with a single passenger seat over the wheel-arch alongside him . |