Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] sat [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Either the mermaid was energetically breasting the waves or she sat on the upturned keel of a drowned vessel and combed out long and improbably yellow hair . |
| 2 | About 8 p.m. that evening Taff and I sat at the side of our slit trench eating what I thought was a rather dubious lump of meat . |
| 3 | Perhaps he heard , I do n't know , but he did n't look up and I sat on a stool near the door until it was finished . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This is a serious point , and I sat on the bridge thinking about how to settle it once and for all . |
| 6 | He sat down on the wooden chair and I sat on the bed . |
| 7 | They put the parcels on the table and tidied the room while Frankie and I sat on the sofa and watched . |
| 8 | Well , it was only a bedsitter and Andrea and I sat on the one divan having a smoke and a glass of the fizzy stuff I always brought her , and I said , ‘ What about slipping between the sheets ’ ? ’ |
| 9 | Susan and I sat on the paling hillside as the sky whitened . |
| 10 | Sogono and I sat on the dock beside the cargo — the crafty old Bugi way out to sea — before restoring ourselves on sticks of shrimp satay and bowls of turquoise ice , yellow maize , red beans , and syrup . |
| 11 | Upstream , through the gorge known as the Wachau , runs one of the prettiest stretches of the river and I sat for a pleasant hour on its embankment watching the swallows skim its waters . |
| 12 | Simon , his wife Nancy , Jack and I sat through the first act of the sold-out play . |
| 13 | They released me for the day and I sat in a cab desperately trying to keep calm whilst my mind raced through the practicalities of getting Mum back — cancelling the filming , getting the kids looked after for a while if … |
| 14 | ‘ father brought me up here on his back in the spring one year , and I sat in the moor while he and old Donald were digging peats . |
| 15 | I saw her and I , I be honest with you I hid , I be totally honest and I 'll tell her the same if I see her because I 've just found out then that they could n't do any more for me dad and I really did n't want to speak or see anybody and I sat in the canteen on my own , I just said to me mum , mum on the phone I said mum I need to do this on my own I said I 'm just gon na have a coffee in the cafeteria and I do n't know if you 've been in there but the cafeteria is all glass and she pulled up in a white van delivering something to the office , I thought oh no it 's Jenny she 's the last bleeding person I want there , I do n't mean that |
| 16 | I remember being at primary school and the boys went to play football and you sat in the corner playing talking or the boys played football and the girls , would you believe it , got sex education ! |
| 17 | Yeah , cos I made you a sandwich and you sat in the garden chair . |
| 18 | I told her I 'd been dreaming and she sat on the bed and held my hand for a bit . |
| 19 | Henniker moved a chair for her , and she sat on the extreme edge of it . |
| 20 | He put more logs on the fire and she sat on the floor with her back resting against a settle . |
| 21 | The farm workers took their seats , and she sat at the top of the table , so that she was with them , but a little apart . |
| 22 | And she sat with the |
| 23 | The wood cracked against Belle 's hands and she sat for the rest of the lesson holding her knees . |
| 24 | Joe made room for me with the same amount of good grace he might have afforded an enemy invading his castle and we sat for a few minutes without speaking , inspecting the view . |
| 25 | The journey there was uneventful and we sat on a seat in the Market Place to eat our sandwiches . |
| 26 | ‘ I closed the door and we sat on the bed . |
| 27 | She came to see me the first night I was home , and we sat on the verandah , rather tongue-tied after such a long time , saying stupid things like : " Did you have a good trip ? " |
| 28 | And we sat about an hour did n't we ? |
| 29 | It was common practice for families to attend evening service and we sat in the same pew each week , about half way back in the north aisle . |
| 30 | Once I went down with Jane to the village pub and we sat in the front parlour on our own , listening to what seemed to be a male voice choir performing in the next room , accompanied by mysterious foot shufflings and stampings . |