Example sentences of "[coord] sat [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this way he has lived in Nazi Germany or sat beside a small girl in Vietnam who gazes into the distance with a fixed stare and cries into the silence with a monotonous , elemental shriek . |
| 2 | In one she was dressed in a leotard , black tights and high heels — and sat astride a rocking horse . |
| 3 | The bartender , squat and ugly with one white eye , wore an apron and soiled shirt and sat at a high stool reading a newspaper . |
| 4 | Back home safely , I made a cuppa and sat for a good hour revelling in my favourite magazine . |
| 5 | Alice went to a cafe in Finchley Road , and sat for a long time quietly by herself over strong coffee . |
| 6 | They ordered gins , and sat on a wooden bench before a wooden table , while Karen admired the place . |
| 7 | We moved back to the strip of shingle and sat on a large baulk of timber that had been dragged up away from the water . |
| 8 | The uncomfortable feeling she 'd had earlier on had come back again and sat like a solid lead ball in her chest . |
| 9 | It must have been up there for years , it weighed at least 14 carats and sat like a throbbing lime fruit pastille on the back of my unmoving hand . |
| 10 | Dishes of dainty ‘ amuse gueule ’ teased us into our first course of whole baby Brittany lobster , seascented and sat upon a diminutive salad of oil-tossed green leaves — simple you might think — splendid simplicity in fact . |
| 11 | He crossed the corridor in two strides and sat in a small room that was used for counselling or small case conferences , leaving the door open and flipping impatiently through the file . |
| 12 | Water came from the taps and sat in an unnerving basin shape : the blue plastic failed to dematerialise from the world where I had been a grateful and temporary guest since the moment five years ago when I had vouchsafed in the sight of the God of men Ido . |