Example sentences of "[pron] sat [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once I sat with an American psychiatrist , a specialist in eating behaviour , and observed a hugely overweight couple ( quite unaware that we were watching them ) eating their restaurant breakfasts . |
| 2 | I sat on a large stone , shivering and looked north appealingly , shouting , ‘ Mick ! |
| 3 | I sat on an upturned box , feeling the sweat beginning to trickle down my back . |
| 4 | After the girls had gone I sat for a little time , thinking . |
| 5 | Upstream , through the gorge known as the Wachau , runs one of the prettiest stretches of the river and I sat for a pleasant hour on its embankment watching the swallows skim its waters . |
| 6 | I sat for a long while , clutching the unfinished poem , gazing beyond it . |
| 7 | Afterwards I sat for a long time trying to reconcile myself to these new ideas . |
| 8 | I sat upon a disintegrating gravestone . |
| 9 | I sat beneath a metal-framed photograph ( black and white ) of fishing-boats at the Ile d'Oleron . |
| 10 | I laughed silently as I sat against a hard cushion in the palm-frond house looking at the brown eyes around me . |
| 11 | So with all this in mind , as I sat in a long queue of airmen for the preliminary examination , I was thankful . |
| 12 | I sat in a thirteenth-century hall in Bruges in September 1988 and listened to Mrs Thatcher 's speech on the future of Europe . |
| 13 | Gandalf says as much at II , 99 , though he is laconic about it — ‘ I sat in a high place ( the great tree in Lothlórien ? ] , and I strove with the Dark Tower ’ — since Aragorn and the others he is addressing can have no idea what is being referred to . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I sat in an open posture and avoided nervous mannerisms ( i.e. not with arms folded ) . |
| 16 | Someone sat in a little cubby-hole of an office , and there received money conveyed by means of a complicated system of overhead wires . |
| 17 | He tasted the delicate fennel-flavoured soup which sat in a shallow bowl in front of him . |
| 18 | The women who sat beside a single basket of herbs , or wild mushrooms they had gathered that morning in the dew , high in the hills , were tanned so dark they might have washed in walnut juice . |
| 19 | Used originally by Tallymen who sat behind a high desk to keep account of cargo being unloaded , and later adapted by film directors , you 'll find this seat ideal if you have a breakfast bar . |
| 20 | She sat for a long while , until her limbs became cold and stiff and her mind numb with tiredness and misery . |
| 21 | He looked expectantly at Sarah , but she sat for a few seconds before speaking . |
| 22 | She sat with a lame leg tucked under her . |
| 23 | He stood before her as she sat on a low chair , and drenched her with his urine . |
| 24 | She sat on a hard chair . |
| 25 | On impulse , she bought a recently published history of the region under the Occupation and took it to a pavement café , where she sat under a gaudy sunshade , idly sipping coffee and glancing through her book , but finding the passing show around her far more diverting . |
| 26 | Two days later , she sat in a small bar , which was the latest haunt of the upwardly-mobile in Washington DC . |
| 27 | Edward paid the taxi driver in advance and all the way home she sat in a happy daze . |
| 28 | She sat like a small spruce viper , neatly coiled opposite him . |
| 29 | ‘ You sat on a low step , Modigliani , your cries were those of a stormy petrel … ‘ , wrote Ehrenburg in a poem written early in 1915 . |
| 30 | One of the things that some chaps found amusing when they went to the " heads " ( the head is what the Navy calls the loo ) , you sat in a long row and a great flush of water ran right through a row of 20 or 30 . |