Example sentences of "[pron] sat [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next morning I sat on the front steps with my head in my hands . |
| 2 | I sat in the still shadows and listened to the water bubbling in a ditch beyond the wall . |
| 3 | Those of us who sat on the urban policies committee for a number of years seeing Moat devour and all the stoppages and problems there , knew that you were taking the wrong line . |
| 4 | The interesting factor in all those arguments is that my hon. Friends who sat on the respective Committees or spoke on the Second Reading of Bills associated with privatisation said at the time that the Government were privatising monopoly , not introducing effective competition and regulation , and the matter would have to be examined again . |
| 5 | Macmillan showered political honours on his backbenchers like confetti , and during the thirteen years of Conservative government which ended in 1964 over two hundred MPs , one third of all those who sat on the Tory benches , were rewarded with some sort of gong . |
| 6 | After that she sat on the morning-room steps watching the day slide off the face of Old Carrots field . |
| 7 | We sat on the opposite sides of the partition and sensed each other 's misery . |
| 8 | We sat in the packed aisles , the building 's relative simplicity a delusion for what was to follow . |
| 9 | The hills themselves looked asleep , the heather glowed dust-blue in the hazy light , and the people , after a night of little sleep and hours of walking and standing , now looked stunned as they sat on the grassy banks , leaned on dykes , or lay on their backs in the hayfields , munching oatcakes and drinking the last of their water . |
| 10 | All through the morning , as they sat on the makeshift bunks , they stared without comment at the kneeling figure who ground away at the rust around the bolt . |
| 11 | They sat in the littered corners at the ends , beggars in various states of desperation waiting mutely for handouts . |
| 12 | He sat beside the wide fires all day , overflowing his stool like a walrus on a rock , half a dozen wooden spoons ready at hand . |
| 13 | The estimable Anderson spoke half-truths as his friend and fellow bag-carrier , Billy Gunn , now explained as he sat on a green caddies ' bench and waited for the call to duty . |
| 14 | He sat on the appropriate boards of the International Olympic Committee and was President of the General Assembly of International Sports Federations for 17 years . |
| 15 | He sat among the plump cushions of the settee and immediately regretted not taking his coat off . |