Example sentences of "sat [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the end of that evening , after she had sat through a dinner in the large school refectory , listened to Madame Chardin 's opening speech of the term and lain in the dark listening to her new roommates , Katherine did indeed begin to feel if not at home , then at least marginally more comfortable . |
| 2 | For I had already sat through a grave miscarriage of justice . |
| 3 | The catalogue has the additional interest of a memoir by Silvio Berthoud , who had sat as a boy between five and eight for his uncle : |
| 4 | ‘ I told the doctor I had sat opposite a man the night before and had to mentally flick through every male name I knew in order to locate his . |
| 5 | I told him I had sat opposite a man the night before and had to mentally flick through every male name I knew in order to locate his ; ‘ George , Andrew , Jack … |
| 6 | And what part did the cripple play who had sat like a malignant spirit guarding a make-shift bridge over an unimportant stream ? |
| 7 | In fact she had never sat in a restaurant alone with her mother . |
| 8 | After sitting in the cockpit , General Scott told Dick : ‘ I 've seen and sat in a lot of P-40s since the war ended . |
| 9 | When the three of them had been together in the kitchen , the infant Camille crawling round with jam on her face and fingers , he had sat in a state of sullenness bordering on rage or had conspicuously moved about preparing food for himself , knowing quite well that his dinner was cooking in the oven . |
| 10 | Tilda , who had never sat in a rocker before , replied that her boots were too dirty . |
| 11 | John Coffin thought he had never sat in a room with so many clocks . |
| 12 | Because she had been reluctant to meet up with Celeste again , she had sat in a public stand a long way away from the private seating , the grid , the pits , but now she raced back towards them . |
| 13 | ANY Scot who has ever sat in a drafty hall , feeling a mounting sense of doom while staring blankly at an exam paper has probably cursed Edinburgh-based Pillans & Wilson for collaborating in their misery by printing the question papers . |
| 14 | So people do n't feel as though they 're sat in a wide ai wide open |
| 15 | When we went to that the interview yesterday it was ever so funny because we 're all sat in a row and this girl next door to me was from Cornwall , and this other girl said , where are you from ? |
| 16 | A pretty girl and one that should be with a man , not a girl who should have sat beside a solicitor in a High Street divorce court . |
| 17 | Death-beds are not easily mistaken and Mrs Hellyer had sat beside a few . |
| 18 | Which poet described a politician as ‘ an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man ’ ? |
| 19 | They told what an excellent trip it had been and how they had sat on a platform in the sunshine halfway across to eat their sandwiches with not another boat in sight . |
| 20 | He pulls a face as if he 's just sat on a chicken , as Peter Cook has just asked him what 's the most boring job he 's ever had . |
| 21 | Mr and Mrs Harper had sat in their respective armchairs , Marge had sat on a red leather pouffe and she , Steve and Cliff had occupied the two-seater settee of the three-piece suite . |
| 22 | The next morning , Buzz sat on a pale blue chair before the window in Elinor 's bedroom . |
| 23 | Her bottom stung as if she 'd sat on a nest of hornets , but she wanted to show them she 'd survived . |
| 24 | ‘ You 've sat on a bilberry , ’ said Betty with satisfaction . |
| 25 | The hon. Gentleman is so distinguished that it may be some time since he has sat on a Standing Committee . |
| 26 | Quigley leaped into the air like a monkey that has sat on a bunsen burner and gave a sort of primal grunt . |
| 27 | Pretty much the same at the moment because I 'm I 'm sat on a couple of bills for Salford Council who I 'm sure can afford it for the moment . |
| 28 | Apart from that they could 've sat on a wall and done exactly the same thing , she was in the street . |
| 29 | The box also has a sloping front making it easier to use when sat at a desk . |
| 30 | Snizort , on his own account , offered the Twelve Knights who had sat at a round table so that no one of them should be at its head and no one at its foot . |