Example sentences of "[pers pn] sat on a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I got to higher ground , I sat on a long , flat slab of white rock in a salmon-pink sea . |
| 2 | I was drinking Monk and Monk was a heavy beer so fuck I gets out of the car and fucking oh fuck , but anyway said to me look I 'll go up , say my name , and I 'll bring you home , I was living with my sister at the time and I sat on a wee low wall , I 'm just the wall , fu fuck I , in the middle of the day , nobody , they were just drinking er Dawn this is way were , it 's fucking maybe twenty five years ago , twenty six and er fuck he sat me on the wall he had to s I could n't see he says to me er fucking I heard a voice , Raymond like this is the exam tonight you 'll have to sit there . |
| 3 | I sat on a large stone , shivering and looked north appealingly , shouting , ‘ Mick ! |
| 4 | He stood before her as she sat on a low chair , and drenched her with his urine . |
| 5 | She sat on a hard chair . |
| 6 | ‘ You sat on a low step , Modigliani , your cries were those of a stormy petrel … ‘ , wrote Ehrenburg in a poem written early in 1915 . |
| 7 | It began to get quite hot so we sat on a mossy bank and shared an orange . |
| 8 | He sat on a small stone bench opposite the priest 's house , half dozing , still relishing the memory of his meeting with de Craon . |
| 9 | While Auntie Lou set out the food , he sat on a flat rock to recover and talked about the old days . |
| 10 | The estimable Anderson spoke half-truths as his friend and fellow bag-carrier , Billy Gunn , now explained as he sat on a green caddies ' bench and waited for the call to duty . |
| 11 | He sat on a huge leather chair with a sigh of relief and it was clear to Hari that his leg had been giving him trouble . |