Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] sat [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | On the first-floor terrace they sat at the round table while Roman did the honours with gin and tonics . |
2 | When he came back in the evening he sat for a long time gazing out across the V-shaped valley leading south . |
3 | For the next four years he sat as an engrossing clerk on a stool in the dusty office , so thick with dust that it entered the sunbeams ; and bent over crabbed writing in the books , or showed dull clients in to see his father , or sat the examinations , which he passed . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | During the service he sat in the front pew and listened to the preacher talking about the kind of woman she had been , and he knew it was n't like that , but the doctor had given some pills and he felt drowsy and numb , and illogically cheerful , as if he was slightly drunk , but at the stage where everything seems enlarged and unfamiliar . |
6 | The next morning I sat on the front steps with my head in my hands . |
7 | Now she grew herbs along the south-facing wall at the end ; and in summer she sat on the tiny lawn , smelling the yellow roses and watching the clematis creeping over the fence from next door . |