Example sentences of "sat [prep] him [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Auntie Jean slammed Uncle Ted 's tea on the table at the end of each day — a meat pie and chips , or a nice bit of rump steak and tartar sauce ( he had n't the nerve yet to go vegetarian ) — she sat opposite him with a stiff drink and demanded facts about Eva and Dad . |
| 2 | I sat opposite him at the Christmas do and he spent ages talking to me . |
| 3 | She crossed the room and sat opposite him in the ratty old armchair . |
| 4 | Not , however , when Charlotte sat opposite him in an eerily empty airport cafe and described her experiences in the United States while gazing at him with an expression implying what he most wanted to believe : that she trusted him unreservedly . |
| 5 | Frank Cole of the Daily Telegraph wrote of Chapman : ‘ If you sat near him at a big match … you realized the intense earnestness of the man . |
| 6 | But instead of panicking , he proposed to his girlfriend , who sat with him throughout the ordeal . |
| 7 | Several times I went up the valley with my father in the evening and sat with him behind a rock , hoping he would get a shot at the leopard . |
| 8 | During a lunch break I sat with him in a village pub where he put away a few pints . |
| 9 | His eldest son , John Fowler Leece , sat with him in the House of Commons from 1906 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Bunny sat on him like an angel , as though glued to the saddle , handling him beautifully and gently . |
| 13 | His pain , a round , red , throbbing presence , sat beside him at the window enjoying the spectacle . |
| 14 | Later the black girl came and sat beside him on the sofa . |
| 15 | He turned to Blanche , who sat beside him on the settle , his face grave . |
| 16 | His mother , a crushed figure in black , sat beside him in a pew . |
| 17 | His mother sat beside him in the dock holding his hand throughout the short hearing . |