Example sentences of "i sit [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | I sit on a flat stone in one — the straw thatched roof would just have cleared my head — imagining what was kept in the neat stone alcoves . |
2 | I sit on a smooth stone and watch yellow-breasted finches in their dipping flights across the still-warm air . |
3 | When I write biographies , I sit at a large kitchen table with a wide surface on which books and papers can be laid , essential for checking quotations or references . |
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 | 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 . |
8 | Afterwards I sat for a long time trying to reconcile myself to these new ideas . |
9 | I sat for a long while , clutching the unfinished poem , gazing beyond it . |
10 | I sat upon a disintegrating gravestone . |
11 | I sat beneath a metal-framed photograph ( black and white ) of fishing-boats at the Ile d'Oleron . |
12 | I laughed silently as I sat against a hard cushion in the palm-frond house looking at the brown eyes around me . |
13 | So with all this in mind , as I sat in a long queue of airmen for the preliminary examination , I was thankful . |
14 | I sat in a small easy chair , the stiff clothes seeking out the bruises and abrasions of the night , my hand throbbing with pain . |
15 | I sat in a thirteenth-century hall in Bruges in September 1988 and listened to Mrs Thatcher 's speech on the future of Europe . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | 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 . |