Example sentences of "[pers pn] sat down [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sat down to a great Conservative cheer and then Michael Meacher had his opportunity . |
| 2 | In the shopping centre , I was gratified to see my name up on the Day 's Attractions board , and I sat down at a prepared place by the side of the stage . |
| 3 | I sat down at the little table , as well I might . |
| 4 | I sat down on the only patch of turf |
| 5 | I sat down on the wooden bed . |
| 6 | I sat down with the Financial Times and tried to count how many people were actually smoking underneath no-smoking signs . |
| 7 | After a while I sat down in a secret place by the Cherwell and fell to musing about how I had once myself aspired to Oxford , how one of my lecturers at Edinburgh had urged me to go on to read for a B.Litt. there , but of course the war had put an end to any such ambitions . |
| 8 | With a second cup in my hand , I sat down in an upright chair opposite my hostess . |
| 9 | I sat down in the long grass , puzzled to understand my weakness . |
| 10 | So I sat down in the warm , and ate the man 's breakfast . |
| 11 | She sat down on a modern sofa in cream and chrome and surveyed the room . |
| 12 | She sat down on the low wall . |
| 13 | She sat down on the battered settle and opened the letter . |
| 14 | She sat down on the other side of the desk . |
| 15 | Placing the night-light against the wall she sat down on the top stair , humping the eiderdown high over her shoulders and gazing into the darkness . |
| 16 | Once in her suite of rooms she sat down at a little Louis Quinze escritoire , its pale grey panels painted with carnations and pinks , and wrote a short letter to her faithless lover , asking him to call on her urgently at the embassy at eleven the next morning . |
| 17 | She was too to enjoy the hot weather and little beads of perspiration shone on her forehead as she sat down at the big desk opposite the row of girls . |
| 18 | She sat down in the one comfortable chair ; it had come from their housekeeper 's room , and had found its way to Billy 's kitchen , like the strip of Turkey carpet with the hole in the middle . |
| 19 | Clark and Howey signed three-year contracts last month and Keegan said : ‘ We sat down with the two lads and their fathers and worked out a deal that was right for them . |
| 20 | The smiling white face of William Ehrman , young third secretary at the British Embassy , was a reassuring presence at the table , when we sat down to a welcoming drink . |
| 21 | Mrs Knelle soon appeared in a dressing gown , and we sat down to a soothing breakfast of toast . |
| 22 | As we sat down to the first of many repetitive meals of salted fish and ground corn , I broached the question of finding a prahu which might carry us as far as Aru . |
| 23 | We sat down on the little grass patch where the strolling players set up their tent . |
| 24 | They sat down at a low table in the corner , under a poster for the Campus Crèche and facing posters for the Pregnancy Advisory Service — ‘ A woman has a right to decide about her own body . |
| 25 | They sat down at the big kitchen table and Mrs Wood put the food on three hot plates . |
| 26 | So they sat down on a big , flat , comfortable stone in the grass . |
| 27 | By common consent they sat down on the wet seat of ‘ Traveller 's Rest ’ , huddled under the umbrella , and stared out across the city . |
| 28 | They sat down on the double one . |
| 29 | Pale and shaking , they sat down to a muted conversation about where the day 's campaign would be fought . |
| 30 | By the time they sat down to a light but elegant dinner , a warm rapport had grown between the two women . |