Example sentences of "sat [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the kitchen landing , the dog sat staunchly at the top of the stairs , blocking her way with its back to her , apparently sunk in thought . |
| 2 | Brett pulled up a chair and sat discreetly in the corner . |
| 3 | Anthea Darnell sat wearily on the bedroom 's only chair , still wearing her black dress . |
| 4 | Miriam sat wearily by the window , feeling the perspiration soaking her neck and breasts and the hollow of her back , leaking steadily from her armpits and from between her legs , and causing her underclothes to stick to her stomach and thighs . |
| 5 | The young prisoner just sat nervously on a stool watching Athelstan . |
| 6 | Once there , she sat nervously on the edge of a Louis XIV chair , her bare legs drawn together , her hands in her lap . |
| 7 | Maura sat nervously on the edge of the big double bed while he opened the bottle and brought her a glass . |
| 8 | It had a circular room with a compass inlaid in mahogany in the parquet floor , and here father and daughter sat side-by-side on the window seat while he coached her each evening in the school holidays . |
| 9 | She snatched up the receiver and sat wetly on the bed . |
| 10 | They sat on arguing for three hours while Ella went into the other end of the house and sang quietly to the baby and wee Alex came home filthy from playing and sat drowsily beside the fire , chewing at the bones of the fowl . |
| 11 | THE Celtic manager , Liam Brady , and Tom Grant , the director who leaked information about the Parkhead board requesting a meeting with Brady to discuss the team 's performances , yesterday sat together at a press conference designed , apparently , to show a united front . |
| 12 | The parents of the nine missing children sat together at the front . |
| 13 | The Gnomes sat together at the end of the breakfast table and waited anxiously for the verdict . |
| 14 | They sat together on the settee . |
| 15 | We sat together on the settee oblique to the fireplace , and talked about work , which meant writing . |
| 16 | They sat together on the sofa , and Cassie thought : How do I tell him ? |
| 17 | Mr Malik put his arm round Robert , as the two sat together on the bench . |
| 18 | As they sat together on the grass , she looked at the tumbling waters of the beck and told him how Maria had slipped on the stepping-stones , down by the farm . |
| 19 | She paced up and down ; she went backwards and forwards to the windows , stepping on to the little balcony where they sat together in the afternoon sun , peering down the street . |
| 20 | They sat together in the darkness , in front of the log fire which was welcome on a summer night suddenly grown cool , and Molly wondered why S. Kettering should be referred to in the past tense . |
| 21 | They sat together in the middle of the plane . |
| 22 | ‘ But he may not want to see you , ’ warned Mary , as we sat together in the kitchen . |
| 23 | We sat together in the hay to keep warm , and talked . |
| 24 | Halfway down we caught up with them outside the Trift Hotel and sat together in the sunshine on the veranda looking up at the peaks , eating spaghetti and drinking beer . |
| 25 | Sometimes she and Henry sat together in the car , a few streets away from their home , munching chocolate bars , while in the back of the Passat huge cardboard boxes of grains , wholewheat cereal , low-fat spreads and calorie-free , taste-free things to stop you dying of cancer awaited Elinor 's approval . |
| 26 | And as they sat together in the darkening room , as flares were lit in the garden and there was a blast of distant pop music through a crackling loudspeaker system , Molly confessed , ‘ I must say I 'm curious about Mr Kettering . ’ |
| 27 | Her hair , glowing like a brazier through the early-morning mist , her high boots and her cream-coloured quilted jacket with its exaggerated shoulders , had drawn his gaze as he sat impatiently in a line of cars while the pickets argued with the driver of an articulated wagon that was trying to enter the University . |
| 28 | While Buckmaster sat impatiently in the rear and drummed his fingers on his knee , Morgan put on an expensive black overcoat , the collar trimmed with astrakhan , buttoned it up , got back behind the wheel and resumed driving . |
| 29 | It was n't a view that sat easily with the Dwarf s student orientation as the autumn and the new student academic year approached . |
| 30 | Christopher sat easily on the corner of his office table his Company Sergeant Major ramrod stiff a pace behind on his right . |