Example sentences of "i sat [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Simon , his wife Nancy , Jack and I sat through the first act of the sold-out play .
2 Once I sat with an American psychiatrist , a specialist in eating behaviour , and observed a hugely overweight couple ( quite unaware that we were watching them ) eating their restaurant breakfasts .
3 I sat at the open window and looked out on to the purple dark .
4 When I got to higher ground , I sat on a long , flat slab of white rock in a salmon-pink sea .
5 I was drinking Monk and Monk was a heavy beer so fuck I gets out of the car and fucking oh fuck , but anyway said to me look I 'll go up , say my name , and I 'll bring you home , I was living with my sister at the time and I sat on a wee low wall , I 'm just the wall , fu fuck I , in the middle of the day , nobody , they were just drinking er Dawn this is way were , it 's fucking maybe twenty five years ago , twenty six and er fuck he sat me on the wall he had to s I could n't see he says to me er fucking I heard a voice , Raymond like this is the exam tonight you 'll have to sit there .
6 I sat on a large stone , shivering and looked north appealingly , shouting , ‘ Mick !
7 I sat on an upturned box , feeling the sweat beginning to trickle down my back .
8 Well , it was only a bedsitter and Andrea and I sat on the one divan having a smoke and a glass of the fizzy stuff I always brought her , and I said , ‘ What about slipping between the sheets ’ ? ’
9 The next morning I sat on the front steps with my head in my hands .
10 After the girls had gone I sat for a little time , thinking .
11 Upstream , through the gorge known as the Wachau , runs one of the prettiest stretches of the river and I sat for a pleasant hour on its embankment watching the swallows skim its waters .
12 Afterwards I sat for a long time trying to reconcile myself to these new ideas .
13 I sat for a long while , clutching the unfinished poem , gazing beyond it .
14 I sat upon a disintegrating gravestone .
15 I sat beneath a metal-framed photograph ( black and white ) of fishing-boats at the Ile d'Oleron .
16 I laughed silently as I sat against a hard cushion in the palm-frond house looking at the brown eyes around me .
17 So with all this in mind , as I sat in a long queue of airmen for the preliminary examination , I was thankful .
18 I sat in a small easy chair , the stiff clothes seeking out the bruises and abrasions of the night , my hand throbbing with pain .
19 I sat in a thirteenth-century hall in Bruges in September 1988 and listened to Mrs Thatcher 's speech on the future of Europe .
20 Gandalf says as much at II , 99 , though he is laconic about it — ‘ I sat in a high place ( the great tree in Lothlórien ? ] , and I strove with the Dark Tower ’ — since Aragorn and the others he is addressing can have no idea what is being referred to .
21 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 .
22 I could not understand his absence ; but suddenly , as I sat in the speeding train , a long way already from El Katara , I caught sight of his white burnous on the banks of the oued .
23 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 .
24 I sat in the still shadows and listened to the water bubbling in a ditch beyond the wall .
25 I sat in the cool , shuttered room and watched the slightly bowed bald head behind the shining black harpsichord .
26 I sat in the front row of the balcony with tears rolling down my face and feeling nothing at all .
27 I sat in the front room .
28 As I sat in the hot taxi I could see Balvinder Singh haggling with one of the healers .
29 Tonight I sat in the tiny living room of a schoolmaster 's house in Mufakose , one of Salisbury 's African townships .
30 I sat in the penitential cafe
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