Example sentences of "[pers pn] sat [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sat outside beneath the upturned colander of the night sky until Dennis 's snores had settled into a consistent rhythm , then made my way inside the house and across the living area to the door behind which Karen lay naked . |
| 2 | So Sid and I sat just outside the trench discussing the events of the day , and swatting mosquitoes . |
| 3 | As I sat just outside the entrance to the trench it was very difficult to accept that Taff was dead . |
| 4 | I sat unhappily in the empty church with two lines of thought . |
| 5 | I sat there for a while . |
| 6 | Anyway , I sat there for a couple of minutes and then the cab came . ’ |
| 7 | I sat there for an hour stuffing my stomach and telling him exactly what had happened . |
| 8 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 9 | Indeed , I sat there in the muggy warmth until the balding , bull-necked scruff of a proprietor or manager started to put the chairs upside down on the swabbed tables — a peculiar custom which is surely unhygienic enough to be banned by law . |
| 10 | As I sat there in the dark , the ship moving gently in the water , I almost fell asleep . |
| 11 | I sat there in the dark , waiting for her to return . |
| 12 | I sat there in the darkness for a moment and then the grill slid open . |
| 13 | I sat numbly by the open window , with my legs pressed together , my arms hugging my sides and my hands gripping each other , to combat the sensation that I was going to shake myself to pieces . |
| 14 | At first , my mind could not adjust to the missing three months , so that I sat stupidly with the paper in my hands , staring at it . |
| 15 | I sat silently in a chair by the fire , not moving , getting stiffer and stiffer , and yet not moving . |
| 16 | I sat quietly for a while finishing my most recent cup of coffee . |
| 17 | But one evening — a full hour before her usual meal — I sat quietly in the armchair , reading . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | She sat squarely in a big armchair and looked at him . |
| 20 | She sat heavily on the bed . |
| 21 | She sat humbly in the cold church , making some effort to get into the right mood for the service . |
| 22 | She sat again at the dinner table and saw in the candlelight Hilary Robarts 's dark , discontented eyes staring intently at Alex Mair ; watched the planes of Miles Lessingham 's face fitfully lit by the leaping flames of the fire , saw his long-fingered hands reaching down for the bottle of claret , heard again that measured rather high voice speaking the unspeakable . |
| 23 | She sat carefully in a bucket chair , on a dark-blue satin cushion embroidered with a yellow dragon , and looked up at the mantelpiece . |
| 24 | Once there , she sat nervously on the edge of a Louis XIV chair , her bare legs drawn together , her hands in her lap . |
| 25 | Blanche 's eyes widened and she sat forward on the kitchen chair . |
| 26 | She sat forward on the chair , studying her sister-in-law 's face with a worried frown . |
| 27 | She sat forward in the worn chair . |
| 28 | She sat stiffly in the Mercedes , unwilling to continue the conversation . |
| 29 | Still she sat there on the floor , sunk on her heels . |
| 30 | She sat there for a few seconds , then heard a voice softly calling her name . |