Example sentences of "sat [prep] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Branson was not present , but his personal lawyer , Colin Howes , sat through the hearing with a sinking heart . |
| 2 | After an education in France , Wharton briefly sat as an MP in the Parliament of 1680 as member for East Grinstead , before a hotheaded pro-Exclusionist speech forced him to lie low . |
| 3 | Meanwhile Angel Clare returned to his hotel , and sat for a while over breakfast , staring into space . |
| 4 | Then he sat for a while on the aisle stand which was a box covering the auto-pilot , where he was able to look out through the nose . |
| 5 | He sat for a while without speaking , apparently debating how many of his thoughts to share . |
| 6 | We sat for a while by the cairn in the hot sun looking out before us , the only noise being the sound of the beck behind us falling over boulders and down towards Brackens Gill and the Dee . |
| 7 | He just sat for a while in a sort of communal TV room with a few old loons . |
| 8 | They sat for a while in thoughtful silence while the shower passed from the surface of the lake and the light hiss of the rain ceased . |
| 9 | We less poetic mortals sat for a while in the afternoon sunlight and shadow , then we turned down the path again for a pot of tea and a scone for myself and Eddy and a biscuit for Bill before we began the road walk back to the car . |
| 10 | We sat for a while in the sitting-room over coffee . |
| 11 | They sat for a minute in silence as if what had passed between them needed to be assimilated in peace . |
| 12 | In front of the studio back cloth of a painted garden , each mother in turn sat for a portrait with her offspring , and when that was done Ernest offered to take an extra group of them all , as a free gift . |
| 13 | The Prophet sat for a couple of minutes , gathering his strength . |
| 14 | Rachel sat for a moment as the wind playfully tossed a handful of leaves on to the bonnet of the car , and as she turned the key in the ignition she realised she was trembling . |
| 15 | Allen sat for a moment on the parapet , Marian saw him smile at her , then he slipped over the edge and the rope grew taut on the hook . |
| 16 | She sat for a moment on the narrow window ledge , scanning the shadows in case shapes , creatures , sentinels should materialise . |
| 17 | She sat for a moment in silence . |
| 18 | They sat for a moment in glum accord watching the evening thicken outside . |
| 19 | We sat for the rest of the evening with that particularly pleasant feeling which comes when the jobs aboard are getting seen to and the heaviest thing you 've lifted , thus far , is a glass . |
| 20 | The wood cracked against Belle 's hands and she sat for the rest of the lesson holding her knees . |
| 21 | She sat for the evening with a strange man 's hand inside her stocking , and yet it had not occurred to her that the laws of a disorganized school trip were not the laws of nature or of justice . |
| 22 | The next morning , after I had drunk some coffee and sat for an hour with the first suggestions of boredom stirring inside me , the Feldwebel who had enjoyed the ride in the Mercedes so much came to the door . |
| 23 | I sat for an hour in my roomette looking out at the unvarying scenery and trying to imagine anything else that Filmer might have paid to have done . |
| 24 | She sat behind a stream of cars stopped at the traffic intersections till they surged onwards and then stopped again . |
| 25 | A colonnade along the west side above a raised pathway provided a sheltered dais for the chairmen of the popular committees who sat behind a table with two or three microphones . |
| 26 | Two scrawny women in tiny dresses sat behind a table of china animals , painting each other 's faces by the warmth of a dilapidated reactor stove . |
| 27 | Susan thought : Now I 've lost him ; but he sat behind the wheel without starting the engine . |
| 28 | Mr Alfred Oliver sat behind the counter of his tobacconist 's at 15 Cross Street , a small connecting street joining the parallel Broad and Friar Streets . |
| 29 | Twenty feet away , Sonny sat against the wall of the piggery , paralysed with fear , staring at the writhing body of his brother with open-mouthed horror . |
| 30 | They sat against the wall of the house , just under the stone parapet of the first floor terrace . |