Example sentences of "sat [prep] [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the girls had gone I sat for a little time , thinking . |
| 2 | Now that Elizabeth had exhausted the topic of Martha , they sat for a few moments in silence , one each side of the fire with a cup of tea . |
| 3 | Helen , too , sat for a few minutes . |
| 4 | Joe made room for me with the same amount of good grace he might have afforded an enemy invading his castle and we sat for a few minutes without speaking , inspecting the view . |
| 5 | She showered and shampooed her short dark hair , combing it into its neat bob , then she made toast and coffee and sat for a few minutes before her kitchen window which enjoyed the same view as her bedroom . |
| 6 | On her way back she was in such a state of euphoria that , in order to collect her thoughts , she pulled into the service road opposite the antique shop and sat for a few minutes . |
| 7 | He looked expectantly at Sarah , but she sat for a few seconds before speaking . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The county members and those who sat for the few boroughs in which the franchise was reasonably wide were normally the most independent of eighteenth-century MPs ; but they were in a minority . |
| 10 | It was common practice for families to attend evening service and we sat in the same pew each week , about half way back in the north aisle . |
| 11 | She saw in her mind the woman who sat in the same seat day after day . |
| 12 | So we , we went away , putting our package together , and we went in we sat in the either end of the table . |
| 13 | And if you 're worried in case anyone in the family has drunk out of a cup her husband used , or sat on the same loo seat or given him a friendly kiss , relax . |
| 14 | Corbett sat on the same bench he had occupied the previous Sunday watching the nuns file in . |
| 15 | For the first time ever , the Heads of State and Government of the United States , Russia , China , France and Britain sat around the same table and pledged themselves , with the other members of the council , to collective security , to international law and to our commitments under the United Nations ' charter . |
| 16 | People sat at all the tables in the bar , and some tables , there was like two lots of people sat around the same table , sharing a table . |