Example sentences of "and they sat [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mungo accepted and they sat on the bed . |
| 2 | He fired up the gas logs to supplement the background heating and they sat on the Chesterfield . |
| 3 | A quiet woman in a large white apron brought them cold white wine in a red earthenware jug , and they sat at the edge of the patio looking out at the rows of vines , of lemon trees , tomatoes and capsicums that straggled down the hillside , shaded in places by tall cypresses and stunted white-trunked olive trees . |
| 4 | Wycliffe took the sergeant to lunch at his hotel and they sat by the great window overlooking the sea , which still sparkled in the sun . |
| 5 | Piggy-wig was in the kitchen , Dionne opened a bottle of white wine and they sat in the elegant grey-blue lounge . |
| 6 | And they sat in the car with the windows down in the freezing dawn and they watched the distant city lights going out under the dawn at five in the morning , they sat there for a full half hour , looking , and thinking how beautiful the city looked at this time and at this distance … |
| 7 | She followed him into the field and they sat beneath the shade of a large oak tree . |
| 8 | Leary poured coffee into wide china cups and they sat around the rough wooden kitchen table and drank . |