Example sentences of "she sat [adv] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could n't take his eyes off Zambia 's stomach which was revealed quite plainly as SHe sat up in bed . |
| 2 | Now , however , she sat up in bed and wondered , as she had been wondering for the last few days , what had happened to the spider . |
| 3 | When the maid woke her she sat up in bed and said , ‘ Ask Sir Stephen if he can spare me a few minutes . ’ |
| 4 | Angry with herself , she sat up in bed , turned on the light ( wonderful electric light ) , and reaching for one of the three modern novels laid out for her , forced herself to read . |
| 5 | She sat up in bed , rubbed the sleep from her eyes and blew irritably at a hanging strand of her hair . |
| 6 | But the light that filtered through the curtains as she sat up in bed soon convinced her that , unlikely though it seemed , she really had left the discomforts of her hotel behind her for good . |
| 7 | She sat up in bed . |
| 8 | But he was wrong , as Laura pointed out nine months later when she sat up in bed , proudly holding three-day-old David and James in her arms . |
| 9 | Confused , she sat up in bed raking her hair from her face . |
| 10 | She sat up in bed , freeing herself from Lowell 's arms . |
| 11 | She sat up in horror . |
| 12 | She sat there in silence , and resentment made her cheeks hot : she resented the wasted hours of battle with her own desires , she resented her failed and needless attempts at empire , she was filled with hatred at the thought of lost anticipations . |
| 13 | She sat down in front of it and looked at the half-page she had typed that morning . |
| 14 | She sat down in front of the mirror and brushed her hair carefully , as if the success of her enterprise lay entirely in the sleek disposal of each gleaming black thread . |
| 15 | Suddenly she sat upright in bed as though pulled by strings , her brain clearing as if her head had been pushed into a bucket of water . |