Example sentences of "he sat in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He sat in the hotel bedroom all weekend with Sam , played games with him , ate meat pies and children 's gob-stoppers cheaply out of paper bags and gorged on the all-in breakfast . |
| 2 | He sat in the driver 's seat to get the feel for a few moments before he started it up . |
| 3 | It was in a cinema on 86th Street where he sat in the balcony , wearing an old sports jacket and open-necked shirt . |
| 4 | He took me often to organ recitals ( Goss Custard and Thalben Ball ) and to the Proms , where he sat in the balcony over the orchestra cupping his good ear in his hand . |
| 5 | He sat in the stern , half-turned away from us so we saw only the side of his face . |
| 6 | He sat in the armchair recently occupied by Newman , his long legs crossed . |
| 7 | And he sat in the armchair on the other side of the room , in the shadows . |
| 8 | Kicking open the living-room door , his mouth still firmly attached to hers , he sat in the armchair , her slim form cradled on his lap . |
| 9 | He sat in the window of a cafe and ordered coffee from a woman wearing a Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament badge . |
| 10 | So he , he sat in the mess room there and checked his box against the tickets which were shown on the waybill . |
| 11 | So he did nothing for Mary or Rufus that morning , did not even seek them out , scarcely knew whether Rufus was still asleep on the terrace or back in bed with Mary , and when he found further sleep impossible because of his shivering body and pounding head , he sat in the kitchen making instant coffee for himself but took none up to them . |
| 12 | He sat in the back with him , for company , and chatted soothingly of nothing as the driver did the eight miles or so to Kirton , and swept into the riding-school yard . |
| 13 | He sat in the back , cradling his wife in his arms . |
| 14 | Peter was accused three times , as he sat in the courtyard of the high priest 's house , of being one of Jesus ' men and three times he denied it . |
| 15 | Every afternoon Salah drove us in his jeep to a spring in the desert where he sat in the shade of the palm trees eating watermelon and smoking hashish while we swam . |
| 16 | Between his wanderings he sat in the farmhouse at St. Cleer , where he was considered a definite eccentric by his Cornish relatives . |
| 17 | He sat in the dining-room , able to enjoy a few biscuits and fruit rather than the ‘ gargantuan midday meal which was hitherto compulsory ’ . |
| 18 | Then he sat in the grass , brought his wrists up under his knees , kicked off his shoes and worked his legs through his locked arms , one after the other . |
| 19 | He c he got him off did n't he , and he sat in the thing . |
| 20 | He sat in the place that Maidstone had suggested , at a table at the end of the café 's pavement area . |
| 21 | He sat in the corner of the Silver Shuriken , as far away from the bleeding video jukebox and bleeping zapper games as possible , sipping the foul antifreeze that passed for beer in the U.S. of Bloody A. He would have cut off his left doughnut and sold it to Johnny Galtieri for a pint of Six X Wadsworth , two bacon-and-cheddar sarnies and a packet of crisps with a blue twist of salt in them . |
| 22 | He sat in the corner farthest from the door , a good-looking man in his fifties , with a twinkle in his eye despite three years ' captivity , recalling incidents from his Scottish childhood in amazing detail . |
| 23 | At last , when darkness had covered the city , he sat in the corner of a closed taxicab . |
| 24 | There can have been few more painful moments in Melvyn Bragg 's professional life than when he sat in the audience of a public performance where Barry Humphries , in the guise of Edna Everage , asked if anyone had read any of Bragg 's novels and nobody raised their hand . |
| 25 | He sat in the seat across the aisle from me and said the cars would be backed into a siding for two days , the engine would be removed and used elsewhere , and there would be a security guard on duty . |
| 26 | He sat in the office having a cup of tea . |
| 27 | He sat in the fireside chair . |
| 28 | Then in the evening he sat in the ballroom of the hotel where the cast where staying , getting pissed on shorts . |
| 29 | Wednesday , it must have Thursday , well he sat in the store as they called him . |
| 30 | And I just saw myself washing it while he sat in the bath . |