Example sentences of "[adv] sat [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yesterday , I incautiously sat down in the library in a chair just vacated by Colonel Fagg , and discovered later that the back of my entire uniform was covered in snuff . |
| 2 | She quickly sat up in the bed , the blanket wrapped round her . |
| 3 | And now a shabby mischance had destroyed it , knocked down the precarious walls of my prison , I still sat on in the wreckage and kept my eyes closed , safe behind broken bars . |
| 4 | Before her astonished eyes he calmly sat down in the chair at the opposite side of the desk . |
| 5 | She frequently sat up in the wee sma' hours staring out of the window . |
| 6 | I took his pulse , then sat back in the chair by his bed , my hands in my lap . |