Example sentences of "i sat [prep] the [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 | I sat at the open window and looked out on to the purple dark . |
| 3 | 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 ’ ? ’ |
| 4 | The next morning I sat on the front steps with my head in my hands . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I sat in the still shadows and listened to the water bubbling in a ditch beyond the wall . |
| 8 | I sat in the cool , shuttered room and watched the slightly bowed bald head behind the shining black harpsichord . |
| 9 | I sat in the front row of the balcony with tears rolling down my face and feeling nothing at all . |
| 10 | I sat in the front room . |
| 11 | As I sat in the hot taxi I could see Balvinder Singh haggling with one of the healers . |
| 12 | Tonight I sat in the tiny living room of a schoolmaster 's house in Mufakose , one of Salisbury 's African townships . |
| 13 | I sat in the penitential cafe |