Example sentences of "[pron] sat [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sat outside beneath the upturned colander of the night sky until Dennis 's snores had settled into a consistent rhythm , then made my way inside the house and across the living area to the door behind which Karen lay naked . |
| 2 | I sat unhappily in the empty church with two lines of thought . |
| 3 | Indeed , I sat there in the muggy warmth until the balding , bull-necked scruff of a proprietor or manager started to put the chairs upside down on the swabbed tables — a peculiar custom which is surely unhygienic enough to be banned by law . |
| 4 | I sat numbly by the open window , with my legs pressed together , my arms hugging my sides and my hands gripping each other , to combat the sensation that I was going to shake myself to pieces . |
| 5 | ‘ The Minister is just finishing a phone call , then I must tell him one thing before he sees you , ’ he said , briskly , glancing at the miniature switchboard beside him which sat incongruously in the draughty , high-ceilinged , dingy room . |
| 6 | She sat squarely in a big armchair and looked at him . |
| 7 | She sat humbly in the cold church , making some effort to get into the right mood for the service . |
| 8 | She sat forward in the worn chair . |
| 9 | She sat there for a long time rocking backwards and forwards and giving herself up to howling , letting her gasps for breath shake her to pieces and leave her shuddering . |
| 10 | On my first visit , we sat together for a long time , talking of this and that . |
| 11 | They sat downstairs in a double seat in the back row . |
| 12 | They sat there for a long time , drinking their milk , gazing out at the grey drizzle while the Bārakotes told them stories about their home in the south , about the brightly coloured saris that the women wear , about the bazaars , and all the shops and stalls with beads and bangles , oranges , lemons , spices , chilli . |
| 13 | And they sat in the car with the windows down in the freezing dawn and they watched the distant city lights going out under the dawn at five in the morning , they sat there for a full half hour , looking , and thinking how beautiful the city looked at this time and at this distance … |
| 14 | They sat together on the rattling tram , Fred holding her hand and Carrie biting her bottom lip in frustration as the tram stopped at the Tower Bridge Hotel for the conductor to alter the points . |
| 15 | In the drawing room they sat together on the large settee . |
| 16 | They sat together like an old married couple in separate armchairs facing the screen . |
| 17 | ‘ He 's a very able sorcerer , ’ said Fribble , as they sat together in the banqueting hall . |
| 18 | Rakovsky was thinking of them as he sat there in the borrowed office in Berlin . |
| 19 | He sat opposite to the chief inspector and Dexter , behind a narrow wooden table , hands gesticulating , with the face of a bridge player . |
| 20 | Then he moved the black rook so that it sat solidly behind the white bishop , attacking it in response despite the presence of the white queen three squares behind the bishop . |
| 21 | Her eyes , threatening to turn from amber to gold as the two of them sat there over a casual dinner on her balcony , briefly dared him to develop the theme , just before she dropped them . |
| 22 | The two of them sat together on the damp grass . |