Example sentences of "sat [adv prt] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He sat down in a vacant chair and at once the younger cadet hurried to serve him with tea from a spotless samovar . |
| 2 | After a while I sat down in a secret place by the Cherwell and fell to musing about how I had once myself aspired to Oxford , how one of my lecturers at Edinburgh had urged me to go on to read for a B.Litt. there , but of course the war had put an end to any such ambitions . |
| 3 | Alice sat down in a big chair at one end . |
| 4 | Taking a deep breath , he walked slowly across the room and sat down in the easy chair directly facing his mother . |
| 5 | So I sat down in the warm , and ate the man 's breakfast . |
| 6 | I sat down in the long grass , puzzled to understand my weakness . |
| 7 | She sat down in the one comfortable chair ; it had come from their housekeeper 's room , and had found its way to Billy 's kitchen , like the strip of Turkey carpet with the hole in the middle . |
| 8 | I closed the door and sat down in the one chair this side of his desk . |
| 9 | Roger sat down in the high-backed armchair opposite her and smiled at her . |
| 10 | Then they sat down in the great dining hall to drink . |
| 11 | Then he sat down in the great oak chair by the fire and enjoyed his tea . |
| 12 | Christina sat down in the small desk chair , her legs unsteady . |
| 13 | A shaken Charles followed the line of the bullet and sat down in the nearest chair . |
| 14 | He put the machine on the round table in front of the sofa , plugged it into a socket and sat down in the nearest armchair . |
| 15 | So he made a cup of coffee ( realising , sensibly for once , that he 'd had enough alcohol ) , and sat down in the low upholstered chair with wooden arms that was one of the room 's few comforts . |
| 16 | He grunted with annoyance and sat down in the sparse grass with his back to the worn stone and let the meagre sun warm him . |
| 17 | He sat down in the big easy-chair beside the kitchen range , took me on his knee and read me a story . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | At 9 p.m. the women sat down in the common room and said they were n't going to bed until the heating was fixed . |
| 20 | Yet , unable to refuse the implied reproach , Celia sat down in the antique rocking chair she had bought and allowed Miss Maynard to pass her the child . |
| 21 | Nails , without thinking , sat down in the comfortable straw and talked to the mare , leaning his head against the refrigerator wall . |
| 22 | Karen sat down in the soft , dark sand and let the ripples of cold Atlantic water wash round her thighs . |
| 23 | With a second cup in my hand , I sat down in an upright chair opposite my hostess . |
| 24 | She frequently sat up in the wee sma' hours staring out of the window . |
| 25 | Ruth swung her long tanned legs to the patio and sat up in the lounger where she had been soaking up the sun lasciviously for the past hour and irrationally telling herself that if Fernando Serra had really loved her he would n't have let her slip away from him so easily . |
| 26 | What are you doing sat up in the high chair ? |
| 27 | After a moment , she sat up in the cluttered bed and regarded him in mock annoyance . |
| 28 | Eventually the men at the long table sat back in a happy state of having eaten and drunk as much as they could possibly hold . |
| 29 | Her pulse rate had slowed to somewhere near normal ; she sat back in the creaking wooden chair in a deliberate effort to appear relaxed , and returned his smile . |
| 30 | After deciding to have her favourite crab-cakes , Christina sat back in the uncomfortable rattan chair , admiring Pauline 's Batik printed dress . |