Example sentences of "a [noun] sat [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 A clerk sat by the window .
2 A squirrel sat on the lawn
3 Labor was cheap , time ran slow , and a girl sat beside the man typist to return each key by hand as he pressed it .
4 He took my passport off me and told me to sit down on a bench sat against the wall ; I picked up a magazine and read it while he checked my details .
5 The remains of lunch were still on the stained crumb-scattered tablecloth and a woman sat at the table feeding a baby from a bottle .
6 A man sat in the cab attached to the trailer vehicle , smoking a cigarette , reading a newspaper .
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