Example sentences of "sat [prep] a [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 | SCI-FI buffs yesterday sat through a seven-hour viewing of all three Alien films , starring Sigourney Weaver , at a Swansea cinema . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Back home safely , I made a cuppa and sat for a good hour revelling in my favourite magazine . |
| 9 | I sat for a long while , clutching the unfinished poem , gazing beyond it . |
| 10 | She sat for a long while , until her limbs became cold and stiff and her mind numb with tiredness and misery . |
| 11 | Moran sat for a long time . |
| 12 | They sat for a long time in silence watching the Atlantic crash down on the empty shore . |
| 13 | Afterwards I sat for a long time trying to reconcile myself to these new ideas . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | When he came back in the evening he sat for a long time gazing out across the V-shaped valley leading south . |
| 16 | The Collector sat for a long time contemplating his boots which , because of the dampness , had become covered in green mould . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Alice went to a cafe in Finchley Road , and sat for a long time quietly by herself over strong coffee . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | They sat for a long time on brown plastic seats in a white corridor . |
| 21 | Andrus sat for a long time . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He sat behind a big table with a television , three computers and five telephones . |
| 24 | Mr Cooper was not present but Mr Croydon sat behind a huge desk , a bland smile on his face . |
| 25 | She ushered them into a small cluttered room where a middle-aged woman in a navy dress sat behind a littered desk . |
| 26 | A young , sweaty man in the usual grey uniform sat behind a large desk . |
| 27 | Used originally by Tallymen who sat behind a high desk to keep account of cargo being unloaded , and later adapted by film directors , you 'll find this seat ideal if you have a breakfast bar . |
| 28 | I laughed silently as I sat against a hard cushion in the palm-frond house looking at the brown eyes around me . |
| 29 | I sat beneath a metal-framed photograph ( black and white ) of fishing-boats at the Ile d'Oleron . |
| 30 | The uncomfortable feeling she 'd had earlier on had come back again and sat like a solid lead ball in her chest . |