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 | 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 . |
19 | Mrs Knelle soon appeared in a dressing gown , and we sat down to a soothing breakfast of toast . |
20 | We sat down on the little grass patch where the strolling players set up their tent . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | They sat down at the big kitchen table and Mrs Wood put the food on three hot plates . |
23 | So they sat down on a big , flat , comfortable stone in the grass . |
24 | By common consent they sat down on the wet seat of ‘ Traveller 's Rest ’ , huddled under the umbrella , and stared out across the city . |
25 | They sat down on the double one . |
26 | Pale and shaking , they sat down to a muted conversation about where the day 's campaign would be fought . |
27 | By the time they sat down to a light but elegant dinner , a warm rapport had grown between the two women . |
28 | Then they sat down in the great dining hall to drink . |
29 | ‘ Because one thing 's for certain , Charlie Trumper , ’ she told him as they sat down in the little room at the back of Salmon 's to check the monthly accounts , ‘ you do n't know the first thing about butchery . |
30 | He sat down at the far end of the table . |