Example sentences of "she sat [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then she sat at the big table with only a pot of tea for herself while Frankie and his father cleared their plates in silence . |
| 2 | That was it , Julia said to herself , as she sat at the big scrubbed table in the Florentine kitchen , all those years and a thousand miles away . |
| 3 | Then she sat at the roll-top desk with the magazine in front of her , took a deep breath and lifted the receiver off its hook . |
| 4 | She sat for a long while , until her limbs became cold and stiff and her mind numb with tiredness and misery . |
| 5 | He looked expectantly at Sarah , but she sat for a few seconds before speaking . |
| 6 | She sat with a lame leg tucked under her . |
| 7 | He stood before her as she sat on a low chair , and drenched her with his urine . |
| 8 | She sat on a hard chair . |
| 9 | She sat on the small stove for some while gradually becoming more agitated . |
| 10 | Either the mermaid was energetically breasting the waves or she sat on the upturned keel of a drowned vessel and combed out long and improbably yellow hair . |
| 11 | Now she grew herbs along the south-facing wall at the end ; and in summer she sat on the tiny lawn , smelling the yellow roses and watching the clematis creeping over the fence from next door . |
| 12 | After that she sat on the morning-room steps watching the day slide off the face of Old Carrots field . |
| 13 | She sat on the opposite couchette and picked up the paperback he had been reading . |
| 14 | She sat on the hard hall-stool beside the telephone , safe in the semi-darkness and waited for Dorothea and her friend Florence Ames who was a nurse , someone who would recognise her condition instantly , who would be on hand should emergency treatment be required , who was trained and capable . |
| 15 | Henniker moved a chair for her , and she sat on the extreme edge of it . |
| 16 | She sat on the back door step , in the morning sunshine , bare feet on William 's fawn and white belly , aimlessly pulling at his soft ears . |
| 17 | On impulse , she bought a recently published history of the region under the Occupation and took it to a pavement café , where she sat under a gaudy sunshade , idly sipping coffee and glancing through her book , but finding the passing show around her far more diverting . |
| 18 | ‘ Gee , ’ Charity Marlowe responded drily from where she sat in a decrepit upholstered chair , her head thrown back , her hair hidden under a towel , and her eyes clenched tightly shut . |
| 19 | Two days later , she sat in a small bar , which was the latest haunt of the upwardly-mobile in Washington DC . |
| 20 | Edward paid the taxi driver in advance and all the way home she sat in a happy daze . |
| 21 | She sat in a quiet , dark corner listening to the service . |
| 22 | The following day he bought her a bunch of violets and dropped them on her lap as she sat in the prompt corner . |
| 23 | Queen Sofia of Spain , who is Patron of both charities , came over from Madrid for the Gala , and looked lovely in a pink taffeta dress ; she sat in the front row of chairs beside her brother King Constantine of the Hellenes , and near Queen Anne-Marie and Princess Irene of the Hellenes , and the Spanish Ambassador and Señora Puig de la Bellacasa . |
| 24 | She sat in the front room of her house ( Arcadia Villas , Bed and Breakfast ) pouring tea for the wickedly handsome young man on the sofa , who had taken a room for the entire run of the pantomime . |
| 25 | At the back occasional noises of activity from the park broke across the air ; she sat in the front room cool enough now to sew . |
| 26 | Morse smiled wanly at the lady as she sat in the front row , a lady turning the scales at not much more , surely , than around five stone . |
| 27 | She sat in the empty shop for days willing people in off the streets . |
| 28 | She sat in the dishevelled shabby glamour of her bedroom and stared out of the window for hours at a time . |
| 29 | She sat in the yellow light of the antique lamps every evening , watching her mother crocheting endless squares for a bedspread that would never be finished . |
| 30 | She sat in the opposite chair while Lucy put a record on ; she flung one leg across the other knee , rolled a cigarette and contained the volcano surging from her clitoris to tight silent lips . |