Example sentences of "sat up [prep] [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She sat up with difficulty and began to take gulps of air . |
| 2 | Now , however , she sat up in bed and wondered , as she had been wondering for the last few days , what had happened to the spider . |
| 3 | When the maid woke her she sat up in bed and said , ‘ Ask Sir Stephen if he can spare me a few minutes . ’ |
| 4 | Meredith sat up in bed and listened . |
| 5 | Hari sat up in bed and stared through the window to where the light from the street lamp paled into insignificance against the rising sun . |
| 6 | Now he sat up in bed and looked eagerly at the different handwritings . |
| 7 | Colin sat up in bed and looked very interested . |
| 8 | He sat up in bed and heard the singing of a solitary bird in the tree outside his window . |
| 9 | One day Bernard sat up in bed and noticed the bruises on his wife 's neck . |