Example sentences of "[conj] sat [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the teacher looked , Belle opened her eyes and sat up with a radiant smile . |
| 2 | Ruth swung her long tanned legs to the patio and sat up in the lounger where she had been soaking up the sun lasciviously for the past hour and irrationally telling herself that if Fernando Serra had really loved her he would n't have let her slip away from him so easily . |
| 3 | ‘ That must be why we have to stop the ceremony — to make sure he ca n't tap the mental energy of the congregation and use it to supplement the Old One 's autonomic functions enough to pull the rest of it out of the Vortex , ’ Ace finished , and sat back with a cheery grin . |
| 4 | ‘ God speed both it and you ! ’ said Hotspur , and sat back with a short , sharp sigh of satisfaction . |
| 5 | Katherine blurted out the memorized address and sat back in the comfortable warmth of the car . |
| 6 | She tiptoed across the aisle and sat down beside the motionless figure . |
| 7 | He felt his foot slip under him and sat down with a jarring shock , landing uncomfortably on a spanner and a piece of plastic tubing . |
| 8 | The burly bruiser got up , carried his toddy over and sat down opposite the bearded man , who listened to him muttering , then gave him a silver coin . |
| 9 | They collected steaming mugs of frothy coffee and sat down opposite the gleaming silver water boiler . |
| 10 | I arrived just after dinner at night , so we were taken into the kitchen and sat down at a huge table on which were chicken legs , lamb chops , steak , dishes of three or four veg and told to help ourselves and did we ! |
| 11 | The writer of the Book of Hebrews links the joy and suffering of Christ by saying : ‘ Let us fix our eyes on Jesus , the author and perfecter of our faith , who for the joy set before him endured the cross , scorning its shame , and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God . ’ |
| 12 | He walked on to the stage and sat down at the big piano . |
| 13 | Donna hurried through into the kitchen and sat down at the wooden table , pulling the envelopes from her handbag . |
| 14 | He picked her up and sat down on a small settee , keeping his arm round her . |
| 15 | She found a jasmine-scented corner of garden at the side of the house and sat down on a rustic wooden seat , watching twittering birds come and go fearlessly around a hanging seed basket . |
| 16 | Someone else came into the room and sat down on a plain wooden chair to watch him struggle . |
| 17 | When fitzAlan stepped away from her and sat down on a nearby chair , hooking one booted foot over his knee and regarding her with grimly assessing eyes , her mind was clear once more , ready with the plan Matilda had outlined . |
| 18 | I went and sat down on the lounging chair . |
| 19 | He glanced at Tock then climbed slowly up the steps to the basket and sat down on the little seat provided . |
| 20 | He felt very dizzy , and sat down on the bottom step of the stairs . |
| 21 | I closed the door and sat down in the one chair this side of his desk . |
| 22 | A shaken Charles followed the line of the bullet and sat down in the nearest chair . |
| 23 | He put the machine on the round table in front of the sofa , plugged it into a socket and sat down in the nearest armchair . |
| 24 | So he made a cup of coffee ( realising , sensibly for once , that he 'd had enough alcohol ) , and sat down in the low upholstered chair with wooden arms that was one of the room 's few comforts . |
| 25 | Taking a deep breath , he walked slowly across the room and sat down in the easy chair directly facing his mother . |
| 26 | He grunted with annoyance and sat down in the sparse grass with his back to the worn stone and let the meagre sun warm him . |
| 27 | Then followed a battle of looks between them , but the captain soon put away his weapon and sat down like a beaten dog . |
| 28 | They stopped for drinks and crisps , and sat out on a low stone wall , looking at the cattle and the traffic and green fields . |
| 29 | Generally the passengers camped and sat out in the open air . |
| 30 | In a cold fury he stood and sat about for a long time within , twice changing from chair to chair . |