Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] sat [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Well , it was only a bedsitter and Andrea and I sat on the one divan having a smoke and a glass of the fizzy stuff I always brought her , and I said , ‘ What about slipping between the sheets ’ ? ’ |
| 3 | Simon , his wife Nancy , Jack and I sat through the first act of the sold-out play . |
| 4 | Henniker moved a chair for her , and she sat on the extreme edge of it . |
| 5 | Once I went down with Jane to the village pub and we sat in the front parlour on our own , listening to what seemed to be a male voice choir performing in the next room , accompanied by mysterious foot shufflings and stampings . |
| 6 | It was common practice for families to attend evening service and we sat in the same pew each week , about half way back in the north aisle . |
| 7 | Wycliffe took the sergeant to lunch at his hotel and they sat by the great window overlooking the sea , which still sparkled in the sun . |
| 8 | Piggy-wig was in the kitchen , Dionne opened a bottle of white wine and they sat in the elegant grey-blue lounge . |
| 9 | Leary poured coffee into wide china cups and they sat around the rough wooden kitchen table and drank . |
| 10 | But now it was all over and he sat in the big armchair as dawn lightened the front windows and gave thanks , with a cup of coffee , to the Child of Prague high on the opposite wall . |
| 11 | And it sat at the other side of the gate |