Example sentences of "[num] [noun] sat [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The six competitors sat at the tea tables , together but strangely separate — each gazing at her hands or off into the distance , and never at one another . |
| 2 | The three children sat round the table and discussed how they were to spend the day . |
| 3 | Inside the shrine three men sat around the fire . |
| 4 | Despite the ‘ fine cast of characters … assembled for a morality play , even a tragedy , that once promised to rival the Watergate scandal ’ , only twelve people sat in the public seats . |
| 5 | And then you had twenty people , well , over twenty people sat in the window , and they all had bar meals , and they 'd all been to do with this run , you know , there 's a big run through Twickenham on a Sunday morning , |
| 6 | Face the Media are present here , the two people sat at the front . |
| 7 | He sat in an old deck chair and the two girls sat on the ground , each leaning against one of his legs . |
| 8 | The two girls sat on the wall of Old Battersea churchyard to eat their sandwiches . |
| 9 | The two men sat on the bunk shelf very still , and their saucer eyes never left Holly 's face . |
| 10 | The two men sat on the high wall of the dyke as the dawn came , looking out across the flat expanse of blackened fields , watching the figures move almost somnolently in the darkness below . |
| 11 | The two men sat by the window with a pocket-watch between them , and waited for Oliver 's return . |
| 12 | Her cuts were treated , her bruises examined , and then she and the two children sat in the lounge of one of the private wards , sipping tea and waiting for Bodie to come and pick them up . |
| 13 | For five minutes after the medication , the two women sat on the bed and talked . |
| 14 | She was cleaned up and the four adults sat round the table and played Scrabble . |
| 15 | The following seven people sat around the table — both Gordons , that is , Professor Thomas and the host Sir Alexander ; Provost Jopp , he of the conferring ; Professor Ross and Professor Dunbar ; Boswell and Johnson . |