Example sentences of "[pron] sat [prep] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was it , Julia said to herself , as she sat at the big scrubbed table in the Florentine kitchen , all those years and a thousand miles away . |
| 2 | She sat in the dishevelled shabby glamour of her bedroom and stared out of the window for hours at a time . |
| 3 | One sat at the extreme righthand end of the car , another at the extreme lefthand end and the third in the middle by the doors , facing the platform . |
| 4 | They sat at the great wooden table , drinking a little water out of earthenware bowls , chewing cactus . |
| 5 | ‘ They kept the fighting till later when they sat on the management-union joint negotiation committee . |
| 6 | It was Paula 's job to show samples , parading slowly up and down in front of the clients as they sat on the elegant spindle-leg chairs taking in every detail of the garments with a critical and practised eye . |
| 7 | Leary poured coffee into wide china cups and they sat around the rough wooden kitchen table and drank . |
| 8 | Piggy-wig was in the kitchen , Dionne opened a bottle of white wine and they sat in the elegant grey-blue lounge . |
| 9 | They sat in the cold front room , not daring to light a fire in the strange house . |