Example sentences of "[pers pn] sat [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I arrived at the Demob Centre , I sat around in a bare hall for what seemed like a couple of hours , with two or three hundred other Waafs , and we stared at each other without interest . |
| 2 | I sat up for the next few nights , my head poking out of the back skylight of the loft , my ears straining for the tinkle of glass breaking or muffled curses , or the more usual signal of the birds being disturbed and taking flight , but nothing more happened . |
| 3 | ‘ Jenny and I sat up until the early hours chatting . ’ |
| 4 | For a long time I sat out on the crumbling turf , with the blue distances below , and warm sun lying over this lovely autumn land . |
| 5 | I sat down to a great Conservative cheer and then Michael Meacher had his opportunity . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I sat down at the little table , as well I might . |
| 8 | I sat down on the only patch of turf |
| 9 | I sat down on the wooden bed . |
| 10 | I sat down with the Financial Times and tried to count how many people were actually smoking underneath no-smoking signs . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | With a second cup in my hand , I sat down in an upright chair opposite my hostess . |
| 13 | I sat down in the long grass , puzzled to understand my weakness . |
| 14 | So I sat down in the warm , and ate the man 's breakfast . |
| 15 | Way back in 1957 I had talked my boss into allowing me to learn to fly helicopters with the British European Airways Helicopter Unit at Gatwick and in 1960 I sat in on the first ground school course BOAC conducted for their senior captains converting to the first Boeing 707s . |
| 16 | After a moment , she sat up in the cluttered bed and regarded him in mock annoyance . |
| 17 | Her pulse rate had slowed to somewhere near normal ; she sat back in the creaking wooden chair in a deliberate effort to appear relaxed , and returned his smile . |
| 18 | She sat back in the white plastic chair , fanning herself with her napkin . |
| 19 | ‘ You promise ? ’ mother said , a slight stitching of her brows as she sat back in the ladder-backed seat the only indication that she might not entirely believe me . |
| 20 | She sat back in the large , embracing armchair and took another mouthful of the splendid Spanish omelette . |
| 21 | She sat down on a modern sofa in cream and chrome and surveyed the room . |
| 22 | She sat down on the low wall . |
| 23 | She sat down on the battered settle and opened the letter . |
| 24 | She sat down on the other side of the desk . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Then the Birmingham Small Arms Company revealed after many a summer that the car she sat in like a burnished throne , and even some of the furs she wore , were not provided by her Prince Charming , Sir Bernard , but by them , the nuts and bolts firm of which he was chairman , as a business expense which they were no longer happy to provide . |
| 30 | 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 . |