Example sentences of "[conj] she 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 Henniker moved a chair for her , and she sat on the extreme edge of it .
5 He stood before her as she sat on a low chair , and drenched her with his urine .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 The following day he bought her a bunch of violets and dropped them on her lap as she sat in the prompt corner .
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