Example sentences of "and sat in [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What if he came in this evening through a door that was n't there and sat in a chair-shape , reading a paper that had never been printed , saying aloud bits that were only hum and haw again to me ? |
| 2 | I went and sat in a field and experienced that great bubbling up of love for the Father and for Jesus which I expressed alternately in English and in this new language which I did not understand but which I knew was to be addressed to God and which built me up as I used it . |
| 3 | But there were other interesting visitors from down the strath — Cameron the builder , who came late , and sat in a pew near the back beside Donald Stewart , the blacksmith from Grandtully . |
| 4 | They walked to the teashop in silence and sat in a booth waiting to make their order . |
| 5 | After a short while they retired to the back room and sat in a kind of play-pen atmosphere analysing Judit 's most recent game with a young American visitor . |
| 6 | We rode into the Place St Michel and sat in a café drinking hot chocolate . |
| 7 | Dr Kent eased himself off the desk and sat in a chair next to her . |
| 8 | I went to Argentina and sat in a cell and waited for the torturers to come in . |
| 9 | Each day he came twice to the banker 's house and sat in the sickroom , warm and better furnished now , and kept his lover company ; sometimes talking , sometimes in silence . |
| 10 | I went and sat in the churchyard and wept for Mrs Mitchell and Nelly and prayed for myself to be forgiven and for them to be looked after . |
| 11 | Jack Carbery had put on his blue serge suit for the occasion and sat in the middle of a few friends , his collar stud gleaming , and the apple in his throat bobbing about like a cork on water as he drank . |
| 12 | Woolley turned his back on them and sat in the middle of the cloth . |
| 13 | Horne , deeply agitated by a mixture of fear , terror and forced bravado , went and sat in the middle . |
| 14 | She bought plimsolls in the morning and washed her hair and sat in the conservatory drying it . |
| 15 | Nope we sat and le and the other day we got some chips , you know , me and Mikila and sat in the park |
| 16 | I went back and sat in the darkness on one of the chairs under the colonnade . |
| 17 | ‘ Tommy Webber who lives next door works in the bar at The Packet so I went along there and sat in the bar until closing time then Tommy gave me a lift home on the back of his bike . ’ |
| 18 | A headline had grabbed her attention and so she bought the paper and sat in the booth reading over and over again the following morning . |
| 19 | I careered down the snow-slope below and sat in the shelter of a boulder to watch Roger abseil down the ice pitch , coiled the ropes and climb carefully down to join me for a marvellously welcome brew under the Shelter Stone . |
| 20 | When he finally left the bikes , he ambled down to the stream just where we had been and sat in the water to cool off . |
| 21 | Then we lowered the sail and sat in the sun , and Pierre spoke of the lot he and his fellow villagers had been born to , the weeks at sea , the gales , the great hauls of fish , the hardships and achievements of a Breton fisherman 's life , while we ate the food he had brought with him , and drank his rough cider . |
| 22 | I went and sat in the sun on the garage roof , now that it was quiet . |
| 23 | She swam and read and sat in the sun … about as close as she had come to getting what she 'd imagined for her one shining summer . |
| 24 | When he saw that Mass was to be in the Lady Chapel he moved across and sat in the back row . |
| 25 | I reached the square and went and sat in the Café des Chasseurs , where men with nowhere to rush sat smoking and drinking , blank-faced . |
| 26 | We woke abnormally late at 8.00 am and sat in the garden of the house for an hour drinking coffee and eating the bread one of the Corporals had bought in the village that morning . |
| 27 | From Middleton Bridge we followed the Rawthey to Brigflatts and sat in the garden in the sun , a black tulip growing solitary amongst the mass of wild flowers below one of the windows . |
| 28 | Adam lay still as Kaas came back and sat in the chair once again . |
| 29 | He seemed quite unperturbed by her behaviour , by being walloped across the face , and she watched in amazement as he calmly took his own glass and sat in the chair opposite . |
| 30 | I ordered a glass of wine and sat in the corner where I could survey the whole place . |