Example sentences of "and i sat [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | About 8 p.m. that evening Taff and I sat at the side of our slit trench eating what I thought was a rather dubious lump of meat . |
| 2 | This is a serious point , and I sat on the bridge thinking about how to settle it once and for all . |
| 3 | He sat down on the wooden chair and I sat on the bed . |
| 4 | They put the parcels on the table and tidied the room while Frankie and I sat on the sofa and watched . |
| 5 | 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 ’ ? ’ |
| 6 | Susan and I sat on the paling hillside as the sky whitened . |
| 7 | Sogono and I sat on the dock beside the cargo — the crafty old Bugi way out to sea — before restoring ourselves on sticks of shrimp satay and bowls of turquoise ice , yellow maize , red beans , and syrup . |
| 8 | Simon , his wife Nancy , Jack and I sat through the first act of the sold-out play . |
| 9 | ‘ father brought me up here on his back in the spring one year , and I sat in the moor while he and old Donald were digging peats . |
| 10 | I saw her and I , I be honest with you I hid , I be totally honest and I 'll tell her the same if I see her because I 've just found out then that they could n't do any more for me dad and I really did n't want to speak or see anybody and I sat in the canteen on my own , I just said to me mum , mum on the phone I said mum I need to do this on my own I said I 'm just gon na have a coffee in the cafeteria and I do n't know if you 've been in there but the cafeteria is all glass and she pulled up in a white van delivering something to the office , I thought oh no it 's Jenny she 's the last bleeding person I want there , I do n't mean that |