Example sentences of "[Wh pn] sat [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only other person in the bar was a tramp who sat without a drink , muttering imprecations and occasionally turning and flashing his bloodshot eyes in the direction of some imaginary enemy to his right and stabbing the air with one crooked finger . |
| 2 | Only two men and a woman , who sat at a centre table , were not at work , though the woman had a piece of sewing in her hands . |
| 3 | What Katherine found daunting was the ambience within : the large unsmiling woman who sat at a table in the entrance hall and stiffly handed her two sheets of paper , one with a map of the school which showed her own room clearly marked , the other with a long list of instructions printed in four languages , French , German , Italian and English ; a smell which mingled disinfectant and scouring soap ; the difference in temperature between the stifling main body of the school and the chill of the outlying wing where she found her room . |
| 4 | The rest of the place was empty except for Devlin who sat at a table against the far wall reading a small book , a glass of beer at his hand . |
| 5 | He stood in the damp boots that leaked the snow wet to his socks , and he hated the man who sat at the desk . |
| 6 | Foxe describes how ‘ Master Tyndale , a man of no great stature ’ , was courteously persuaded to walk ahead , whilst the tall and comely Philips behind him pointed over his head ‘ so that the officers who sat at the door might see that it was he whom they should take ; as the officers that took Master Tyndale afterwards told Poyntz , they pitied to see his simplicity when they took him . ’ |
| 7 | The person who sat at the side of the Secretary of State was the regional officer from Leeds . |
| 8 | I am also the woman who sat at the crossroads . |
| 9 | What she liked about the Savoy was the lack of babushkas , the old women who sat on every floor in all the other hotels and recorded all the movements . |
| 10 | Tony Long , who sat on a government working party discussing the directive in the mid-1980s while working for the Council for the Protection of Rural England , now runs WWF 's Brussels office . |
| 11 | He stood diffidently to the side of a group , or featured as a background — the pair of legs clutched by baby Louise , a blurred figure in a field beyond Helen and Edward who sat on a rug eating sandwiches . |
| 12 | Wycliffe had perched himself on a stool between Hilda , who was seated at her desk , and Ralph , who sat on a seat like a chapel pew . |
| 13 | ‘ This is April , ’ he said , indicating a nondescript , darkish girl who sat on a corner of the sofa . |
| 14 | He removed his arm from her shoulders and leaned back against the wall , his gaze still on the fair-haired young girl who sat on the bicycle , ready to move off , the wind blowing her skirt and hair . |
| 15 | Kragan did n't add that he had never trusted the newspaper proprietor who sat on the council . |
| 16 | Sir Kingsley Wood , the Chancellor of the Exchequer , who sat on the committee , wanted this paper shelved , but his view was rejected . |
| 17 | Arghatun was speaking at considerable length , but every so often he paused and the man who sat on the tail of the cart asked what appeared to be a series of questions . |
| 18 | " The gentlemen who sat on the bench were more or less connected with the shipping trade , and the law had been somewhat strained to obtain the conviction " . |
| 19 | She began by waking up on the tail-end of absorbing conversations with the white-robed monk who sat on the chair beside her , and it was n't long before the discussions became a full-time activity . |
| 20 | He was also the fellow who sat on the ground in what was called a " Robinson Jacket " and was snatched from an absolutely stationary position on the ground by an Anson with a hook ; this was a device to snatch injured personnel off the battlefield and into the air . |
| 21 | The question came from Christian , who sat astride a bench seat at the kitchen table , contentedly puffing on a smoke-blackened clay pipe . |
| 22 | A colonnade along the west side above a raised pathway provided a sheltered dais for the chairmen of the popular committees who sat behind a table with two or three microphones . |
| 23 | Rape was not charged but there are dicta on the subject from six of the 13 judges who sat in the case . |
| 24 | Most of the work was done by gangs of miners , many of them ‘ claykickers ’ who sat in the tunnel , leaning against a wooden backrest with their feet at the face , and dug out the clay with a light spade . |
| 25 | So did Sean and Michael and the family and most of the congregation , except old Emmet , who was still asleep and Jock , who sat in the choir balcony with his arms folded , looking down on the Latin mumbo-jumbo with Presbyterian disapproval . |
| 26 | Of the members of Parliament ( MPs ) who sat in the Parliament of 1979-1983 , over 62% were graduates . |
| 27 | John Wildman , who sat in the Convention as member for Great Bedwin , produced a tract in which he argued that the King 's legislative veto and power to dismiss Parliament be removed and that control over the militia , the declaration of war and the appointment of judges should be transferred to Parliament . |
| 28 | I will never forget a girl who sat in the living-room of our home in Switzerland . |
| 29 | The girl who sat in the reception area and answered the switchboard was called Lucinda . |
| 30 | But insisted that we got into a rowing boat instead , so we did , and after failures to dissuade us , we were promptly joined by three park-keepers who sat in the boat and insisted on ‘ helping ’ us to row ! |