Example sentences of "sat [prep] a [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A typical example — and there are many of these — was when he patiently sat through a high level Air Ministry conference listening to the Mosquito being castigated for its poor night flying qualities ( because of the glare from the exhausts ) , and Boscombe Down recommended that it should never be flown at night , the chairman , as an afterthought , suggested Bennett contribute his views : " I wish someone hid told me about all these faults ' , he replied , " because I have been flying the Masse on OBOE night trials with excellent results " . |
| 2 | The brown teapot with a slightly broken spout sat like a cold little sentinel on the hob , jackdaws rustled above it in the chimney . |
| 3 | I sat in a small easy chair , the stiff clothes seeking out the bruises and abrasions of the night , my hand throbbing with pain . |
| 4 | As he sat in a roaring solitary splendour twenty thousand feet over the turbulent , endless ocean wastes , he had no idea of the appropriateness of the poem he had just read . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | She says she was taken to the Plaza Hotel , to a party where Hoover sat in a fine black frock and insisted on being called ‘ Mary ’ ; after a while , he retired to the bedroom to be petted by two bought boys , one of whom prudently wore rubber gloves . |
| 7 | ‘ The customers were mostly Japanese and the girls sat in a damp back room waiting to be called to join a man at his table . |
| 8 | And so while he sat in a German public library and the story of the murder in the park unfolded before him in the newspapers , a novel began to stir . |
| 9 | They sat in a fashionable Italian restaurant in the city . |
| 10 | I was drinking Monk and Monk was a heavy beer so fuck I gets out of the car and fucking oh fuck , but anyway said to me look I 'll go up , say my name , and I 'll bring you home , I was living with my sister at the time and I sat on a wee low wall , I 'm just the wall , fu fuck I , in the middle of the day , nobody , they were just drinking er Dawn this is way were , it 's fucking maybe twenty five years ago , twenty six and er fuck he sat me on the wall he had to s I could n't see he says to me er fucking I heard a voice , Raymond like this is the exam tonight you 'll have to sit there . |
| 11 | I felt a sense of achievement , but vertigo too , and sat on a great red dais in the middle of the gallery and tried to keep my eyes open . |
| 12 | A stocky blonde , hair short and spiked , sat on a large embroidered bean-bag with her hands around her knees and her eyes cast upwards and to her left . |
| 13 | He sat astride a ladder-backed wooden chair , his legs splayed out in front of him . |
| 14 | A small boy sat beside a home-made wooden cross . |
| 15 | The President sat at a plain wooden desk to the right of the door through to the front room . |
| 16 | They sat at a circular wrought iron table shaded by a willow . |
| 17 | He sat by a great semi-circular window which looked out into darkness pierced at regular intervals by the beam of the lighthouse . |