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

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1 We sat at a special table and just told jokes about the Russians , the Americans , and ourselves . ’
2 And then we sat at the far side of the Old Gate bridge and er an old lady came along and said , and she was counting them but she said , just look at that thing , she counted seven although , in actual fact , by then th these dra the seven drakes had stopped cha chasing the duck and they were all sitting down .
3 It began to get quite hot so we sat on a mossy bank and shared an orange .
4 We sat on the opposite sides of the partition and sensed each other 's misery .
5 Joe made room for me with the same amount of good grace he might have afforded an enemy invading his castle and we sat for a few minutes without speaking , inspecting the view .
6 Once inside , we sat through a fascinating short on turtle-trapping in the Galapagos Islands or some such thing , and twenty minutes of mouth-watering trailers and commercials .
7 I could visualise , as we sat under the rattan shade of the veranda , passing a perfect life on the island — a comfortable house , a garden in which I could grow everything I needed , enough fish to eat .
8 We sat in a high vestibule between the street and the courtyard .
9 We sat in a gothic cafeteria .
10 We sat in the packed aisles , the building 's relative simplicity a delusion for what was to follow .
11 So we sat in the creamy splendour of the Glasgow Hilton — with Erdman Lewis , the hotel group is sponsoring the production .
12 Once I went down with Jane to the village pub and we sat in the front parlour on our own , listening to what seemed to be a male voice choir performing in the next room , accompanied by mysterious foot shufflings and stampings .
13 We sat in the open-sided restaurant and saw forest all around .
14 So we , we went away , putting our package together , and we went in we sat in the either end of the table .
15 It was common practice for families to attend evening service and we sat in the same pew each week , about half way back in the north aisle .
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