Example sentences of "sat in a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon , however , she did not have enough time to do this although someone had to relieve the poor beast , and the fresh creamy milk often sat in a gleaming churn in the corner of the kitchen untouched until it went rancid and had to be thrown away . |
| 2 | Fred was delighted and led her up to his bedroom where a truly magnificent blue and yellow parrot sat in a tall cage . |
| 3 | He sat in a rocking chair that faced the door . |
| 4 | At 2pm on Wednesday 12 February , John Hutt sat in a dry ditch within easy view of the small Touchen End baker 's shop . |
| 5 | Two days later , she sat in a small bar , which was the latest haunt of the upwardly-mobile in Washington DC . |
| 6 | He crossed the corridor in two strides and sat in a small room that was used for counselling or small case conferences , leaving the door open and flipping impatiently through the file . |
| 7 | A man sat in a low leather bucket seat and watched a TV screen . |
| 8 | The audience sat in a warm honey glow , drinking tea and eating richly iced cake . |
| 9 | Mrs Watts sat in a deep chair in a dark corner of the room but Hari had the impression that the woman was like a cat sleeping with one eye open , watching everything that went on . |
| 10 | Archer sat in a hard-backed chair , very erect . |
| 11 | While Drago and Apanage went into the small kitchen next to Drago 's workroom to prepare a meal , Cleo and Dauntless sat in a cosy parlour where a log fire warmed the stones of an enormous chimney breast . |
| 12 | Billy sat in a far corner of the little pub with Chopper Harris , Frankie Albright and Freddie the Nark , and Freddie was trying hard to sound convincing as he put his plan over to his friends . |
| 13 | He tasted the delicate fennel-flavoured soup which sat in a shallow bowl in front of him . |
| 14 | All day Coleman sat in a hot studio staring at one picture and maintaining hours of nonstop commentary to out-Dimbleby the best of them . |
| 15 | Alan Millet sat in a front room filled with books of modern English history and photographs of small boys lined in the formations of the posed soccer team . |
| 16 | They sat in a dark room , the only light coming from a candle burning in the passage outside . |
| 17 | Raoul and Christine sat in a dark corner , and Raoul took Christine 's hands . |
| 18 | One of the things that some chaps found amusing when they went to the " heads " ( the head is what the Navy calls the loo ) , you sat in a long row and a great flush of water ran right through a row of 20 or 30 . |
| 19 | So with all this in mind , as I sat in a long queue of airmen for the preliminary examination , I was thankful . |
| 20 | I sat in a thirteenth-century hall in Bruges in September 1988 and listened to Mrs Thatcher 's speech on the future of Europe . |
| 21 | Franklin D. Hauser sat in a large Regency chair , wearing evening dress , in the large living room at the front of the house . |
| 22 | Bonanza sat in a huge oak chair . |
| 23 | The royal favourite sat in a quilted window seat whilst young Edward lounged in a chair near him . |
| 24 | So to while away the time while they waited for dark again they sat in a back room and fiished the waistcoat . |
| 25 | Last Sunday I sat in a cold room with my daughter , the two of us reviling the malign fate which had robbed us of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea , our weekly TV fix . |
| 26 | We sat in a gothic cafeteria . |
| 27 | Edward paid the taxi driver in advance and all the way home she sat in a happy daze . |
| 28 | Someone sat in a little cubby-hole of an office , and there received money conveyed by means of a complicated system of overhead wires . |
| 29 | We sat in a high vestibule between the street and the courtyard . |
| 30 | Gandalf says as much at II , 99 , though he is laconic about it — ‘ I sat in a high place ( the great tree in Lothlórien ? ] , and I strove with the Dark Tower ’ — since Aragorn and the others he is addressing can have no idea what is being referred to . |