Example sentences of "sat [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once inside , we sat through a fascinating short on turtle-trapping in the Galapagos Islands or some such thing , and twenty minutes of mouth-watering trailers and commercials . |
| 2 | The Trekkies — fans of the Space adventure Star Trek — sat through a thirteen hour showing of all six films featuring Captain James T. Kirk and the crew of the Starship Enterprise . |
| 3 | SCI-FI buffs yesterday sat through a seven-hour viewing of all three Alien films , starring Sigourney Weaver , at a Swansea cinema . |
| 4 | Well only just to really , actually all Mr Mr has er said , and just one other bit of information , the time when the Chairman of the council extended the invitation to sixth formers , looking for alternative entertainment for the sixth formers of school , after they sat through a full council , I took them over to the er archivists er department , and we saw the paper restor , sorry , should n't say paper restorer , manuscript restorer at work , and these sixth formers , already knew of the existence , one of them asked to see the records of parish , because he knew they were there , and I mean , I think this is wonderful , that the sixth formers already , er children are being taught about the ar the records , and they will want to be sure that we kept them , and I think it 's our moral duty to keep er , the records of the past for future generations . |
| 5 | Simon , his wife Nancy , Jack and I sat through the first act of the sold-out play . |
| 6 | Paul Lexington and Bobby Anscombe sat through the whole play in silence . |
| 7 | He sat as a Unionist councillor and , when the Unionist Party became dominated by powersharers , he moved to Vanguard , then to Baird 's United Ulster Unionist Party , and only switched to Paisley 's Democratic Unionist Party after the demise of the UUUP . |
| 8 | When arrangements were made in the summer of 1278 to establish two permanent circuits of the general eyre he was one of the justices appointed to the ‘ northern ’ circuit and he sat as a junior justice in every eyre of that circuit down to 1288 . |
| 9 | For the next four years he sat as an engrossing clerk on a stool in the dusty office , so thick with dust that it entered the sunbeams ; and bent over crabbed writing in the books , or showed dull clients in to see his father , or sat the examinations , which he passed . |
| 10 | After the girls had gone I sat for a little time , thinking . |
| 11 | Upstream , through the gorge known as the Wachau , runs one of the prettiest stretches of the river and I sat for a pleasant hour on its embankment watching the swallows skim its waters . |
| 12 | Back home safely , I made a cuppa and sat for a good hour revelling in my favourite magazine . |
| 13 | I sat for a long while , clutching the unfinished poem , gazing beyond it . |
| 14 | She sat for a long while , until her limbs became cold and stiff and her mind numb with tiredness and misery . |
| 15 | Moran sat for a long time . |
| 16 | They sat for a long time in silence watching the Atlantic crash down on the empty shore . |
| 17 | Afterwards I sat for a long time trying to reconcile myself to these new ideas . |
| 18 | But the old Jew sat for a long time in silence as the wind and rain in the darkness outside lashed at the windows of Damiani 's old home . |
| 19 | When he came back in the evening he sat for a long time gazing out across the V-shaped valley leading south . |
| 20 | The Collector sat for a long time contemplating his boots which , because of the dampness , had become covered in green mould . |
| 21 | And he sat for a long time in a melancholy reverie as the ants continued to drift down , thinking of the futility of all endeavour . |
| 22 | Alice went to a cafe in Finchley Road , and sat for a long time quietly by herself over strong coffee . |
| 23 | She read it through and then sat for a long time on the white strips of the reclining chair in which she had first seen Signor Fixit . |
| 24 | They sat for a long time on brown plastic seats in a white corridor . |
| 25 | Andrus sat for a long time . |
| 26 | Fifty-three were the sons of MPs ( 18 per cent , much like the 17 per cent of Liberals ) and twelve of these sat for the same seat , although few like Stanley Baldwin succeeded directly ; fifteen of these fifty-three were sons of Liberals , further evidence of the value of recruits brought over in 1886 . |
| 27 | A YOUNGER set of judges would provide a better image to the public : so says Mr Harold Hewitt , who last weekend sat for the last time , retiring for the second time at the age of 75 . |
| 28 | At a dinner party in the British Embassy , an Italian General sat opposite the British Ambassador dressed in an impressive uniform decorated with an even more impressive display of medals . |
| 29 | and sat below the Sacred Heart . |
| 30 | The factor sat behind a roll-top desk ; he was so bent and atrophied by arthritis that he looked like a crustacean clad in a suit . |