Example sentences of "[pron] sat with " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sat with my head in my hands for a while , then I went over to my desk and took out a small framed photograph of Anne and myself which I always hid before she arrived . |
| 2 | Leonard recalled his own practice of that time , an ‘ instinctive ’ use of ‘ primitive meditation ’ : ‘ I sat with my hands on my lap , like a cataleptic … like Ezekiel ! |
| 3 | I sat with her , gave her my drink bottle , stuffed her with glucose and encouraged her to rest for a while . |
| 4 | I had my ideas worked out by the time I left for the 1960–61 Tasman series , and on the 24-hour flight to New Zealand I sat with a slide rule and drew the car as a pin-jointed structure , stressed it and arrived at all the tube sizes . ’ |
| 5 | I sat with a tomato juice in front of me for some time straining my ears to hear what Nigel was saying . |
| 6 | And I sat with him until he went to sleep , and he really looked peaceful … |
| 7 | I sat with him and told him basically what to do , ’ says Charman . |
| 8 | Once I sat with an American psychiatrist , a specialist in eating behaviour , and observed a hugely overweight couple ( quite unaware that we were watching them ) eating their restaurant breakfasts . |
| 9 | I sat with one eye on the clock , waiting my turn and listening to the twenty-fifth rendering of ‘ My Way ’ . |
| 10 | During a lunch break I sat with him in a village pub where he put away a few pints . |
| 11 | Four days on , I sat with the Sheikha 's brother , the boy 's uncle , on the bay-window couch . |
| 12 | I sat with my head between my legs and looked at the dirt-encrusted toenails of the silent Yugoslavian on my left until-'Jennings ' was called from the next room . |
| 13 | I sat with my mouth open . |
| 14 | I sat with Andy while he ranted on . |
| 15 | And once when I was very little I sat with him on his horse-drawn dray at the station with him in his bowler hat . |
| 16 | I sat with a cup of coffee on my lap , still half-asphyxiated by what I took to be Neapolitan warmth . |
| 17 | But as I sat with my legs dangling over the edge , looking out on to the quiet water meadow , the anarchy of Delhi seemed far away and I began to see why in all the most sensible cultures , Paradise was envisaged as a walled pleasure garden . |
| 18 | I sat with her and she tried to tell me something . |
| 19 | I sat with my feet up , savouring a cigarette . |
| 20 | I sat with him in the canteen before a programme and watched him eat his way steadily through eight Eccles cakes with a glass of milk . |
| 21 | I sat with him in the canteen before a programme and watched him eat his way steadily through eight Eccles cakes with a glass of milk . |
| 22 | I sat with a price list . |
| 23 | er and keep her company cos he was at work and the kids were in bed , and she says I went over and sat with her and had a cup of coffee and a smoke and I sat with her , you know , till she was ready for bed . |
| 24 | I could never remember how to do them , I mean if somebody , if someone sat with me and explained it to me and then I , and then I could do it , I would do |
| 25 | The place smelt of oil , paint , damp and slow failure , and Marriage himself sat with his back to it in the cold sunshine , looking across to the willows and alders of the far bank and the fields beyond . |
| 26 | A tall French-Canadian and a Japanese-American girl who sat with them had taken the precaution of handing their luggage over to someone in tourist class where the doors were locked for the duration of the journey . |
| 27 | If the inevitably deformed critics who admired his work — and the critics who sat with their faces pointing up at us did seem to have the countenances of gargoyles , while the aisles were crammed with their wheelchairs — knew of certain weaknesses — certain indulgences , let us say — they would see Pyke 's work in a different light . |
| 28 | ‘ Actually you wanted Quinn , ’ snapped Odell at Lee Alexander and David Weintraub , who sat with them in the Situation Room . |
| 29 | It was the oriental gentleman who sat with them that sent the shudders down Doyle 's spine . |
| 30 | Erm er I 'm very grateful to Dr and I 'll offer him another story , a woman who 's now died whom I used to visit who sat with her coal fire set but not lit until someone would come to the door . |