Example sentences of "[pers pn] sat [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sat at the open window and looked out on to the purple dark . |
| 2 | I could not understand his absence ; but suddenly , as I sat in the speeding train , a long way already from El Katara , I caught sight of his white burnous on the banks of the oued . |
| 3 | As I sat in the graceful room looking at Mrs Rumney , cool , poised , tranquil , with the little white creature resting on her knee I could n't help feeling how right and fitting the whole scene was . |
| 4 | I sat in the front row of the balcony with tears rolling down my face and feeling nothing at all . |
| 5 | I sat in the front room . |
| 6 | As I sat in the hot taxi I could see Balvinder Singh haggling with one of the healers . |
| 7 | Tonight I sat in the tiny living room of a schoolmaster 's house in Mufakose , one of Salisbury 's African townships . |
| 8 | I sat in the penitential cafe |
| 9 | Then she sat at the big table with only a pot of tea for herself while Frankie and his father cleared their plates in silence . |
| 10 | Then she sat at the roll-top desk with the magazine in front of her , took a deep breath and lifted the receiver off its hook . |
| 11 | She sat on the small stove for some while gradually becoming more agitated . |
| 12 | Either the mermaid was energetically breasting the waves or she sat on the upturned keel of a drowned vessel and combed out long and improbably yellow hair . |
| 13 | Now she grew herbs along the south-facing wall at the end ; and in summer she sat on the tiny lawn , smelling the yellow roses and watching the clematis creeping over the fence from next door . |
| 14 | She sat on the opposite couchette and picked up the paperback he had been reading . |
| 15 | She sat on the hard hall-stool beside the telephone , safe in the semi-darkness and waited for Dorothea and her friend Florence Ames who was a nurse , someone who would recognise her condition instantly , who would be on hand should emergency treatment be required , who was trained and capable . |
| 16 | Henniker moved a chair for her , and she sat on the extreme edge of it . |
| 17 | She sat on the back door step , in the morning sunshine , bare feet on William 's fawn and white belly , aimlessly pulling at his soft ears . |
| 18 | The following day he bought her a bunch of violets and dropped them on her lap as she sat in the prompt corner . |
| 19 | Queen Sofia of Spain , who is Patron of both charities , came over from Madrid for the Gala , and looked lovely in a pink taffeta dress ; she sat in the front row of chairs beside her brother King Constantine of the Hellenes , and near Queen Anne-Marie and Princess Irene of the Hellenes , and the Spanish Ambassador and Señora Puig de la Bellacasa . |
| 20 | Morse smiled wanly at the lady as she sat in the front row , a lady turning the scales at not much more , surely , than around five stone . |
| 21 | She sat in the front room of her house ( Arcadia Villas , Bed and Breakfast ) pouring tea for the wickedly handsome young man on the sofa , who had taken a room for the entire run of the pantomime . |
| 22 | At the back occasional noises of activity from the park broke across the air ; she sat in the front room cool enough now to sew . |
| 23 | She sat in the empty shop for days willing people in off the streets . |
| 24 | She sat in the yellow light of the antique lamps every evening , watching her mother crocheting endless squares for a bedspread that would never be finished . |
| 25 | She sat in the opposite chair while Lucy put a record on ; she flung one leg across the other knee , rolled a cigarette and contained the volcano surging from her clitoris to tight silent lips . |
| 26 | She sat in the little café in the High Street , then , having managed to calm herself enough to face the world , she prepared to leave . |
| 27 | He was holding her there without duress , pinning her where she sat by the sheer magnetism of his physical presence . |
| 28 | And then we sat at the far side of the Old Gate bridge and er an old lady came along and said , and she was counting them but she said , just look at that thing , she counted seven although , in actual fact , by then th these dra the seven drakes had stopped cha chasing the duck and they were all sitting down . |
| 29 | I could visualise , as we sat under the rattan shade of the veranda , passing a perfect life on the island — a comfortable house , a garden in which I could grow everything I needed , enough fish to eat . |
| 30 | So we sat in the creamy splendour of the Glasgow Hilton — with Erdman Lewis , the hotel group is sponsoring the production . |