Example sentences of "[subord] i sat [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once I sat with an American psychiatrist , a specialist in eating behaviour , and observed a hugely overweight couple ( quite unaware that we were watching them ) eating their restaurant breakfasts . |
| 2 | I laughed silently as I sat against a hard cushion in the palm-frond house looking at the brown eyes around me . |
| 3 | So with all this in mind , as I sat in a long queue of airmen for the preliminary examination , I was thankful . |
| 4 | As I sat in the hot taxi I could see Balvinder Singh haggling with one of the healers . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |