Example sentences of "sat [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Simon , his wife Nancy , Jack and I sat through the first act of the sold-out play . |
| 2 | Paul Lexington and Bobby Anscombe sat through the whole play in silence . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | and sat below the Sacred Heart . |
| 7 | Nutty had gone up to have a nose , sat behind the oil-drum stack early and seen him leave . |
| 8 | He sat behind the big desk , and Jill the secretary sat at her table opposite him across the room . |
| 9 | Blackadder sat amongst the apparent chaos and actual order of his great edition , sifting a drift of small paper slips in a valley between cliffs of furred-edged index cards and bulging mottled files . |
| 10 | I could visualise , as we sat under the rattan shade of the veranda , passing a perfect life on the island — a comfortable house , a garden in which I could grow everything I needed , enough fish to eat . |
| 11 | However , he sat with the right sort of expression on his face . |
| 12 | She rose , crossed the room and sat with the dark man on the floor . |
| 13 | He usually sat with the prompt book , next to Miss Thorne . |
| 14 | They sat round the square oak table wedged against the wall and consumed the tea . |
| 15 | He sat in the broad circle of young journalists in Mother Bunch 's Wine House and , with the rest of them , sank glass after glass of red wine . |
| 16 | Sergeant Warden sat in the hard-backed chair , notebook at the ready . |
| 17 | So we sat in the creamy splendour of the Glasgow Hilton — with Erdman Lewis , the hotel group is sponsoring the production . |
| 18 | Her face flushed and she turned almost desperately to Marguerite as they sat in the small gold and white salon waiting for their refreshments . |
| 19 | LONG gone are the days where grannies sat in the rocking chair by the fire knitting . |
| 20 | The following day he bought her a bunch of violets and dropped them on her lap as she sat in the prompt corner . |
| 21 | Duncan and Myeloski sat in the front half of the plane . |
| 22 | Once I went down with Jane to the village pub and we sat in the front parlour on our own , listening to what seemed to be a male voice choir performing in the next room , accompanied by mysterious foot shufflings and stampings . |
| 23 | Some of us , including Beth , sat in the front row . |
| 24 | Maisie and Joan , who collected catkins in the woods with me ; Lucy , who was always polite and a beautiful writer ; three very naughty boys who sat in the front row and made a nuisance of themselves : every teacher has memories like these . |
| 25 | I sat in the front row of the balcony with tears rolling down my face and feeling nothing at all . |
| 26 | Princess Margaret wore a pretty blue silk evening dress , and sat in the front row of the circle . |
| 27 | Queen Sofia of Spain , who is Patron of both charities , came over from Madrid for the Gala , and looked lovely in a pink taffeta dress ; she sat in the front row of chairs beside her brother King Constantine of the Hellenes , and near Queen Anne-Marie and Princess Irene of the Hellenes , and the Spanish Ambassador and Señora Puig de la Bellacasa . |
| 28 | Morse smiled wanly at the lady as she sat in the front row , a lady turning the scales at not much more , surely , than around five stone . |
| 29 | During the service he sat in the front pew and listened to the preacher talking about the kind of woman she had been , and he knew it was n't like that , but the doctor had given some pills and he felt drowsy and numb , and illogically cheerful , as if he was slightly drunk , but at the stage where everything seems enlarged and unfamiliar . |
| 30 | Rose sat in the front seat . |