Example sentences of "sat a [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She sat a long time by herself , looking at the forsythia . |
| 2 | Silence as though relief , when suddenly with a creaking and ghostly groaning the lid slid as if off and up sat a terrible apparition with outstretched hand screeching in a hollow voice , give me my gift with such violence , that some of the company fell into the water and had to be saved , and those on the shore scrambled in allways confusion was everywhere . |
| 3 | At the controls sat a youngish man in no sort of uniform , and beside him sat an older man in cleanish overalls with grease on his fingers . |
| 4 | At a table sat a royal-blue Sister with a crimped white turret on her head . |
| 5 | In the courtyard below , surrounded by nuns and other members of the convent , sat a strange-looking man on horseback . |
| 6 | At the other end of the table from Dowd , sitting in front of a heap of newspapers doubtless carrying the Burke reports , sat a professorial man in his sixties , white hair oiled to his scalp . |
| 7 | He led the way to the outer office , which had been empty when Shelley arrived , but where now sat a sylph-like creature with a cloud of dark brown curls , and very heavily made-up eyes . |
| 8 | At a desk before the window sat a pale man in a dark suit . |
| 9 | Around a pine table sat a beautiful girl with two men . |
| 10 | At the controls sat a youngish man in no sort of uniform , and beside him sat an older man in cleanish overalls with grease on his fingers . |