Example sentences of "[pron] sat for [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sat for an hour in my roomette looking out at the unvarying scenery and trying to imagine anything else that Filmer might have paid to have done . |
| 2 | She sat for a moment on the narrow window ledge , scanning the shadows in case shapes , creatures , sentinels should materialise . |
| 3 | She sat for a moment in silence . |
| 4 | The wood cracked against Belle 's hands and she sat for the rest of the lesson holding her knees . |
| 5 | She sat for the evening with a strange man 's hand inside her stocking , and yet it had not occurred to her that the laws of a disorganized school trip were not the laws of nature or of justice . |
| 6 | We sat for a while in the sitting-room over coffee . |
| 7 | We sat for a while by the cairn in the hot sun looking out before us , the only noise being the sound of the beck behind us falling over boulders and down towards Brackens Gill and the Dee . |
| 8 | We sat for the rest of the evening with that particularly pleasant feeling which comes when the jobs aboard are getting seen to and the heaviest thing you 've lifted , thus far , is a glass . |
| 9 | They sat for a while in thoughtful silence while the shower passed from the surface of the lake and the light hiss of the rain ceased . |
| 10 | They sat for a minute in silence as if what had passed between them needed to be assimilated in peace . |
| 11 | They sat for a moment in glum accord watching the evening thicken outside . |
| 12 | Then he sat for a while on the aisle stand which was a box covering the auto-pilot , where he was able to look out through the nose . |
| 13 | He sat for a while without speaking , apparently debating how many of his thoughts to share . |