Example sentences of "they sat down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They sat down at the table , and took out of their pockets packets of cigarettes , lighters and calculators , placing these objects carefully in front of them as if they were necessary equipment for some game they were about to play . |
| 2 | They sat down at the table . |
| 3 | When they sat down at the kitchen table , Emily perched on the edge of her chair , and her hands were never still . |
| 4 | They sat down at the table and Monks started immediately . |
| 5 | They sat down at the big kitchen table and Mrs Wood put the food on three hot plates . |
| 6 | By common consent they sat down on the wet seat of ‘ Traveller 's Rest ’ , huddled under the umbrella , and stared out across the city . |
| 7 | They sat down on the double one . |
| 8 | They sat down in the road and , when the state police dragged them away , they threw jackrocks under the wheels of the ‘ scab ’ trucks ( a jackrock is a couple of sharpened nails welded together so that no matter which way they land , they always have a point sticking up in the air ) . |
| 9 | An hour later , after scratching their arms and legs and staining their hands and mouths with juice , they sat down in the grass and passed a bottle of lemonade around . |
| 10 | Then they sat down in the great dining hall to drink . |
| 11 | ‘ Because one thing 's for certain , Charlie Trumper , ’ she told him as they sat down in the little room at the back of Salmon 's to check the monthly accounts , ‘ you do n't know the first thing about butchery . |
| 12 | They sat down beneath the shade of an umbrella , and looked at each other across the table . |
| 13 | They sat down against the summerhouse wall and talked of each others activities over the last nine years . |
| 14 | Once at the square , they sat down by the Monument to the People 's Heroes in the early hours of a bitterly cold Beijing morning . |