Example sentences of "[pron] sat in a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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No	Sentence
1	So with all this in mind , as I sat in a long queue of airmen for the preliminary examination , I was thankful .
2	I sat in a thirteenth-century hall in Bruges in September 1988 and listened to Mrs Thatcher 's speech on the future of Europe .
3	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 .
4	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 .
5	I sat in an open posture and avoided nervous mannerisms ( i.e. not with arms folded ) .
6	Someone sat in a little cubby-hole of an office , and there received money conveyed by means of a complicated system of overhead wires .
7	He tasted the delicate fennel-flavoured soup which sat in a shallow bowl in front of him .
8	Two days later , she sat in a small bar , which was the latest haunt of the upwardly-mobile in Washington DC .
9	Edward paid the taxi driver in advance and all the way home she sat in a happy daze .
10	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 .
11	We sat in a high vestibule between the street and the courtyard .
12	We sat in a gothic cafeteria .
13	They sat in a dark room , the only light coming from a candle burning in the passage outside .
14	So to while away the time while they waited for dark again they sat in a back room and fiished the waistcoat .
15	He sat in a rocking chair that faced the door .
16	He sat in an old deck chair and the two girls sat on the ground , each leaning against one of his legs .

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