Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] sat [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He was holding her there without duress , pinning her where she sat by the sheer magnetism of his physical presence . |
| 3 | Either the mermaid was energetically breasting the waves or she sat on the upturned keel of a drowned vessel and combed out long and improbably yellow hair . |
| 4 | Fred would listen patiently until he could stand no more and then depart to the small back yard , where he sat on an upturned tea-chest and vowed that one day he would forget how efficient his kitchen hand was and just do away with her . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It began to get quite hot so we sat on a mossy bank and shared an orange . |
| 7 | Barlaston 's problem was that it sat astride a geological fault ( i.e. the junction of two different types of substrata ) . |
| 8 | I was drinking Monk and Monk was a heavy beer so fuck I gets out of the car and fucking oh fuck , but anyway said to me look I 'll go up , say my name , and I 'll bring you home , I was living with my sister at the time and I sat on a wee low wall , I 'm just the wall , fu fuck I , in the middle of the day , nobody , they were just drinking er Dawn this is way were , it 's fucking maybe twenty five years ago , twenty six and er fuck he sat me on the wall he had to s I could n't see he says to me er fucking I heard a voice , Raymond like this is the exam tonight you 'll have to sit there . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Henniker moved a chair for her , and she sat on the extreme edge of it . |
| 11 | Once I went down with Jane to the village pub and we sat in the front parlour on our own , listening to what seemed to be a male voice choir performing in the next room , accompanied by mysterious foot shufflings and stampings . |
| 12 | Wycliffe took the sergeant to lunch at his hotel and they sat by the great window overlooking the sea , which still sparkled in the sun . |
| 13 | Piggy-wig was in the kitchen , Dionne opened a bottle of white wine and they sat in the elegant grey-blue lounge . |
| 14 | Leary poured coffee into wide china cups and they sat around the rough wooden kitchen table and drank . |
| 15 | When arrangements were made in the summer of 1278 to establish two permanent circuits of the general eyre he was one of the justices appointed to the ‘ northern ’ circuit and he sat as a junior justice in every eyre of that circuit down to 1288 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But now it was all over and he sat in the big armchair as dawn lightened the front windows and gave thanks , with a cup of coffee , to the Child of Prague high on the opposite wall . |
| 18 | And it sat at the other side of the gate |
| 19 | And so while he sat in a German public library and the story of the murder in the park unfolded before him in the newspapers , a novel began to stir . |
| 20 | Well only just to really , actually all Mr Mr has er said , and just one other bit of information , the time when the Chairman of the council extended the invitation to sixth formers , looking for alternative entertainment for the sixth formers of school , after they sat through a full council , I took them over to the er archivists er department , and we saw the paper restor , sorry , should n't say paper restorer , manuscript restorer at work , and these sixth formers , already knew of the existence , one of them asked to see the records of parish , because he knew they were there , and I mean , I think this is wonderful , that the sixth formers already , er children are being taught about the ar the records , and they will want to be sure that we kept them , and I think it 's our moral duty to keep er , the records of the past for future generations . |
| 21 | I laughed silently as I sat against a hard cushion in the palm-frond house looking at the brown eyes around me . |
| 22 | So with all this in mind , as I sat in a long queue of airmen for the preliminary examination , I was thankful . |
| 23 | As I sat in the hot taxi I could see Balvinder Singh haggling with one of the healers . |
| 24 | I could not understand his absence ; but suddenly , as I sat in the speeding train , a long way already from El Katara , I caught sight of his white burnous on the banks of the oued . |
| 25 | As I sat in the graceful room looking at Mrs Rumney , cool , poised , tranquil , with the little white creature resting on her knee I could n't help feeling how right and fitting the whole scene was . |
| 26 | He stood before her as she sat on a low chair , and drenched her with his urine . |
| 27 | That was it , Julia said to herself , as she sat at the big scrubbed table in the Florentine kitchen , all those years and a thousand miles away . |
| 28 | Morse smiled wanly at the lady as she sat in the front row , a lady turning the scales at not much more , surely , than around five stone . |
| 29 | The following day he bought her a bunch of violets and dropped them on her lap as she sat in the prompt corner . |
| 30 | I could visualise , as we sat under the rattan shade of the veranda , passing a perfect life on the island — a comfortable house , a garden in which I could grow everything I needed , enough fish to eat . |