Example sentences of "sat [prep] [pers pn] in the " in BNC.

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1 She crossed the room and sat opposite him in the ratty old armchair .
2 One lunchtime Minton , wearing what seemed to her a hideous sweater knitted for him by his mother , sat opposite her in the school restaurant .
3 Her father had warned her it would be this way , his grey eyes unusually concerned as he sat with her in the club office .
4 ‘ Actually you wanted Quinn , ’ snapped Odell at Lee Alexander and David Weintraub , who sat with them in the Situation Room .
5 His eldest son , John Fowler Leece , sat with him in the House of Commons from 1906 .
6 I sat with him in the canteen before a programme and watched him eat his way steadily through eight Eccles cakes with a glass of milk .
7 I sat with him in the canteen before a programme and watched him eat his way steadily through eight Eccles cakes with a glass of milk .
8 His mother sat beside him in the dock holding his hand throughout the short hearing .
9 I sat beside her in the coach and held her hand all the way .
10 He sat beside her in the rear seats , a window open , the hot breeze lifting his black hair from his tanned face .
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