Example sentences of "[pron] sat in [art] [adj] room " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last Sunday I sat in a cold room with my daughter , the two of us reviling the malign fate which had robbed us of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea , our weekly TV fix . |
| 2 | As I sat in the graceful room looking at Mrs Rumney , cool , poised , tranquil , with the little white creature resting on her knee I could n't help feeling how right and fitting the whole scene was . |
| 3 | I sat in the front room . |
| 4 | She sat in the front room of her house ( Arcadia Villas , Bed and Breakfast ) pouring tea for the wickedly handsome young man on the sofa , who had taken a room for the entire run of the pantomime . |
| 5 | At the back occasional noises of activity from the park broke across the air ; she sat in the front room cool enough now to sew . |
| 6 | They sat in a dark room , the only light coming from a candle burning in the passage outside . |
| 7 | So to while away the time while they waited for dark again they sat in a back room and fiished the waistcoat . |
| 8 | A number of respondents commented on the lack of stimulation : ‘ They sat in the front room and did n't move . |
| 9 | Sometimes they sat in the front room reading aloud from the work of a man called Ian McEwan , an author who , according to Elinor , had ‘ a great deal to say ’ to Henry Farr . |
| 10 | They sat in the dingy room , with its green painted walls and picture of the Sacred Heart , a tiny red eye of an oil lamp burning in front of it . |