Example sentences of "[pron] sat for a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the girls had gone I sat for a little time , thinking . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I sat for a long while , clutching the unfinished poem , gazing beyond it . |
| 4 | Afterwards I sat for a long time trying to reconcile myself to these new ideas . |
| 5 | She sat for a long while , until her limbs became cold and stiff and her mind numb with tiredness and misery . |
| 6 | He looked expectantly at Sarah , but she sat for a few seconds before speaking . |
| 7 | Joe made room for me with the same amount of good grace he might have afforded an enemy invading his castle and we sat for a few minutes without speaking , inspecting the view . |
| 8 | They sat for a long time in silence watching the Atlantic crash down on the empty shore . |
| 9 | They sat for a long time on brown plastic seats in a white corridor . |
| 10 | Now that Elizabeth had exhausted the topic of Martha , they sat for a few moments in silence , one each side of the fire with a cup of tea . |
| 11 | When he came back in the evening he sat for a long time gazing out across the V-shaped valley leading south . |
| 12 | And he sat for a long time in a melancholy reverie as the ants continued to drift down , thinking of the futility of all endeavour . |