Example sentences of "[pers pn] sat [adv] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was unthinkable to begin walking before knowing the repair was complete , so I sat glumly on the wheelbarrow which we had lifted off the trailer . |
| 2 | She sat heavily on the bed . |
| 3 | Once there , she sat nervously on the edge of a Louis XIV chair , her bare legs drawn together , her hands in her lap . |
| 4 | Blanche 's eyes widened and she sat forward on the kitchen chair . |
| 5 | She sat forward on the chair , studying her sister-in-law 's face with a worried frown . |
| 6 | Still she sat there on the floor , sunk on her heels . |
| 7 | She sat demurely on the edge of one of the room 's more nondescript-looking chairs , knowing that this Josie , whoever she might be , would be her key to success or failure over the next few hours and maybe even the coming days . |
| 8 | She sat abruptly on the bed , suddenly feeling the strain of the rather alarming excursion into the night . |
| 9 | We sat together on the settee oblique to the fireplace , and talked about work , which meant writing . |
| 10 | The men had won their prestige from work , from scholarship , in the public arena ; and they sat outside on the pavement benches , publicly debating politics , theology , and history . |
| 11 | And they sat there on the computers and the woman said right everybody out , she 's an old battleaxe ! |
| 12 | Now they sat eagerly on the rows of brittle gilt chairs with red velvet seats , their exquisitely made-up faces carefully devoid of expression as they made brief notes on their programmes , pretending not to notice that sometimes the clicking cameras were directed not at the catwalk models , all of whom had already done a photo-call session for the photographers the previous day , but at them — the society women of America and the international circuit , the bored charity conscious wives of big businessmen , the famed actresses of stage and screen , even the occasional European princess . |
| 13 | As they sat together on the grass , she looked at the tumbling waters of the beck and told him how Maria had slipped on the stepping-stones , down by the farm . |
| 14 | They sat together on the rattling tram , Fred holding her hand and Carrie biting her bottom lip in frustration as the tram stopped at the Tower Bridge Hotel for the conductor to alter the points . |
| 15 | They sat together on the settee . |
| 16 | In the drawing room they sat together on the large settee . |
| 17 | They sat together on the sofa , and Cassie thought : How do I tell him ? |
| 18 | An uncomfortable pause while he sat forward on the sofa holding his coffee cup in both hands and gazing into it as if he was waiting for some kind of chemical reaction . |
| 19 | He sat carefully on a stool by the bed . |
| 20 | He sat upright on the sofa and watched the whole film . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Miles away from any other human habitation , it sat defiantly on the seashore facing the Arctic Ocean . |
| 23 | The two of them sat together on the damp grass . |