Example sentences of "[pers pn] sat [prep] [art] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I sat in a small easy chair , the stiff clothes seeking out the bruises and abrasions of the night , my hand throbbing with pain . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ Gee , ’ Charity Marlowe responded drily from where she sat in a decrepit upholstered chair , her head thrown back , her hair hidden under a towel , and her eyes clenched tightly shut . |
| 5 | She sat in the dishevelled shabby glamour of her bedroom and stared out of the window for hours at a time . |
| 6 | They sat at a circular wrought iron table shaded by a willow . |
| 7 | They sat at the great wooden table , drinking a little water out of earthenware bowls , chewing cactus . |
| 8 | ‘ They kept the fighting till later when they sat on the management-union joint negotiation committee . |
| 9 | It was Paula 's job to show samples , parading slowly up and down in front of the clients as they sat on the elegant spindle-leg chairs taking in every detail of the garments with a critical and practised eye . |
| 10 | Leary poured coffee into wide china cups and they sat around the rough wooden kitchen table and drank . |
| 11 | They sat in a fashionable Italian restaurant in the city . |
| 12 | Piggy-wig was in the kitchen , Dionne opened a bottle of white wine and they sat in the elegant grey-blue lounge . |
| 13 | They sat in the cold front room , not daring to light a fire in the strange house . |
| 14 | He sat astride a ladder-backed wooden chair , his legs splayed out in front of him . |
| 15 | As he sat in a roaring solitary splendour twenty thousand feet over the turbulent , endless ocean wastes , he had no idea of the appropriateness of the poem he had just read . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He sat by a great semi-circular window which looked out into darkness pierced at regular intervals by the beam of the lighthouse . |
| 18 | It sat upon an ancient heathen site , a site far darker than anything I could ever have conceived and it instantly became part of my well of strength . |