Example sentences of "sat for a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Back home safely , I made a cuppa and sat for a good hour revelling in my favourite magazine . |
| 3 | I sat for a long while , clutching the unfinished poem , gazing beyond it . |
| 4 | She sat for a long while , until her limbs became cold and stiff and her mind numb with tiredness and misery . |
| 5 | Moran sat for a long time . |
| 6 | They sat for a long time in silence watching the Atlantic crash down on the empty shore . |
| 7 | Afterwards I sat for a long time trying to reconcile myself to these new ideas . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | When he came back in the evening he sat for a long time gazing out across the V-shaped valley leading south . |
| 10 | The Collector sat for a long time contemplating his boots which , because of the dampness , had become covered in green mould . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Alice went to a cafe in Finchley Road , and sat for a long time quietly by herself over strong coffee . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | They sat for a long time on brown plastic seats in a white corridor . |
| 15 | Andrus sat for a long time . |