Example sentences of "[pron] sat [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I arrived at the Demob Centre , I sat around in a bare hall for what seemed like a couple of hours , with two or three hundred other Waafs , and we stared at each other without interest . |
| 2 | I sat down to a great Conservative cheer and then Michael Meacher had his opportunity . |
| 3 | In the shopping centre , I was gratified to see my name up on the Day 's Attractions board , and I sat down at a prepared place by the side of the stage . |
| 4 | After a while I sat down in a secret place by the Cherwell and fell to musing about how I had once myself aspired to Oxford , how one of my lecturers at Edinburgh had urged me to go on to read for a B.Litt. there , but of course the war had put an end to any such ambitions . |
| 5 | She sat down on a modern sofa in cream and chrome and surveyed the room . |
| 6 | Once in her suite of rooms she sat down at a little Louis Quinze escritoire , its pale grey panels painted with carnations and pinks , and wrote a short letter to her faithless lover , asking him to call on her urgently at the embassy at eleven the next morning . |
| 7 | Then the Birmingham Small Arms Company revealed after many a summer that the car she sat in like a burnished throne , and even some of the furs she wore , were not provided by her Prince Charming , Sir Bernard , but by them , the nuts and bolts firm of which he was chairman , as a business expense which they were no longer happy to provide . |
| 8 | The smiling white face of William Ehrman , young third secretary at the British Embassy , was a reassuring presence at the table , when we sat down to a welcoming drink . |
| 9 | Mrs Knelle soon appeared in a dressing gown , and we sat down to a soothing breakfast of toast . |
| 10 | They sat down at a low table in the corner , under a poster for the Campus Crèche and facing posters for the Pregnancy Advisory Service — ‘ A woman has a right to decide about her own body . |
| 11 | So they sat down on a big , flat , comfortable stone in the grass . |
| 12 | Pale and shaking , they sat down to a muted conversation about where the day 's campaign would be fought . |
| 13 | By the time they sat down to a light but elegant dinner , a warm rapport had grown between the two women . |
| 14 | He sat back with a satisfied grin and looked contently around the open-plan hygienic nonentity of his executive sitting room in his executive house on an executive estate in Pangbourne . |
| 15 | He sat down for a few moments to consider his position . |
| 16 | He sat down on a tiny painted nursery chair beside the bed . |
| 17 | He sat down on a small bedside chair , leaving Culley and Dawson no other option than to sit on the bed , which they did , side by side , like travellers on a train . |
| 18 | He sat down on a hard kitchen chair and stared hopefully up at Coffin . |
| 19 | He sat down on a white , tulip-shaped chair . |
| 20 | Willie Learmouth the session clerk came by today for the Intimations and he 's an awful nice man , one of Nature 's Gentlemen , went to Allan Glen 's when that meant something , his wife 's got a plastic hip but you never hear him complain , anyway he sat down to a wee cup of tea and naturally he could not resist my all butter shortbread ‘ Nettie , ’ says he , ‘ your petticoat tails would melt in a man 's mouth . ’ |
| 21 | He sat down in a vacant chair and at once the younger cadet hurried to serve him with tea from a spotless samovar . |