Example sentences of "[pers pn] sat [adv] on a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paddy handed me a mug of tea and I sat down on a jerry-can . |
| 2 | So I sat down on a chair that stood by the counter and looked around the shop while waiting for Mary to emerge from behind the colourful painted screen where she was trying things on . |
| 3 | I sat down on a rock in the golden air and stared at the vast expanse of glassy blue and listened to the sucking and lapping . |
| 4 | I sat down on a milking stool , rolled up my trouser leg and examined the roll of skin which hung like a diploma at the end ofa long graze where the sharp hoof had dragged along . |
| 5 | I sat in on a board meeting the week before last and the Manager 's alleged report was nothing more than a series of orders closely followed by a succession of demands . |
| 6 | She sat down on a chair in the hall beside the telephone . |
| 7 | She sat down on a boulder and put her head in her hands . |
| 8 | She sat down on a chair and held the boy with one arm . |
| 9 | When Nancy was out in the street again , she sat down on a door-step , and for a few minutes seemed unable to move . |
| 10 | Her knees were weak , and she sat down on a chair the press rep brought over for her ; she could not have trusted her legs to walk over to it . |
| 11 | She sat down on a rock . |
| 12 | She sat down on a rock . |
| 13 | She sat down on a modern sofa in cream and chrome and surveyed the room . |
| 14 | She sat down on a very solid patio chair and knew she was living a nightmare . |
| 15 | So they sat down on a big , flat , comfortable stone in the grass . |
| 16 | He sat carefully on a stool by the bed . |
| 17 | His garments were of the forest and he seemed a part of it as he sat there on a tree-stump , small , compact , a broken shape of browns , fawns , russets and greens . |
| 18 | He sat down on a sofa which he realised was slightly longer than his cubicle in the lodging house . |
| 19 | He sat down on a chair with his back to the window and lit a cigarette . |
| 20 | He sat down on a bench against the opposite wall and rested his arms on his knees , hands loosely clasped . |
| 21 | He sat down on a white , tulip-shaped chair . |
| 22 | He sat down on a chair and took a guitar in his hands , but he did n't play it . |
| 23 | He sat down on a small bedside chair , leaving Culley and Dawson no other option than to sit on the bed , which they did , side by side , like travellers on a train . |
| 24 | He sat down on a stone and put his head in his hands . |
| 25 | He sat down on a log and tried to perform what he thought of as the vanishing act , whereby you became insofar as it was possible a part of the surroundings : breathing , seeing , hearing only — merely an aspect of the place , a dimension , like the robin or the moss-covered log or the leafmould on which his feet rested . |
| 26 | He sat down on a tiny painted nursery chair beside the bed . |
| 27 | He sat down on a rock and tried to think . |
| 28 | When Michele had settled her on the swing-seat , her legs up , her back against one padded arm , he sat down on a bench opposite and , eyes narrowed against the sun , invited , ‘ Go ahead . ’ |
| 29 | He sat down on a hard kitchen chair and stared hopefully up at Coffin . |