Example sentences of "[conj] sat [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chair , the letters that do go , the majority of the letters that go to MPs and members are signed by me , though they 're prepared by the officer who 's the expert in different fields , but these two letters went when I happened to be away from the department , and that 's fair enough , I 'd rather they went than sat around waiting for my return . |
| 2 | ‘ Come on , now , is this the girl that sat down next to Bertrand Russell outside the Ministry of Defence and would n't pay her fine , but sang a Bob Dylan at them ? ’ |
| 3 | I went an sat down wid an reasoned wid Mr Ayatollah . |
| 4 | She went out , cut more branches , threw the dying ones away , and sat on through the afternoon , thinking . |
| 5 | When the moderates finally marched out and surrendered their authority to Cromwell , the radical remnant called Moyer to the Speaker 's chair and sat on until the military evicted them . |
| 6 | It 's not as if one went on a week 's course and sat around specifically thinking about one 's courses . |
| 7 | ‘ Do n't , ’ she said sharply , and sat up . |
| 8 | Sheila threw back the bedclothes and sat up , a vision in pink baby doll pyjamas . |
| 9 | He was surprised eventually by the cold greyness of morning , and sat up , despairing of rest . |
| 10 | He observed from the way peter Yeo gathered himself and sat up straight that he was on familiar territory , and understood further that the general patter was well rehearsed . |
| 11 | The boy , free of Philip , rolled over and sat up . |
| 12 | Alida , suddenly conscious of company and place , blew her nose wildly , put away her handkerchief and sat up . |
| 13 | Disconcerted , the young reporter re-crossed her shapely miniskirted legs and sat up straighter . |
| 14 | He opened his eyes and sat up in bed as Anna came in holding a mug of coffee . |
| 15 | He wriggled and sat up straighter . |
| 16 | Like any other youth , I was thrilled by the annual visits of the big circus , and when the Al G. Barnes Circus came to town I paid my own way in to the ‘ show ’ and sat up that night writing the first big-top review for the Times-Herald , which Fred Workman accepted with alacrity . |
| 17 | The cat jumped to the ground and disappeared into the kitchen as Yanto swung his legs off the settee and sat up . |
| 18 | Nigger awoke from a slumber and sat up . |
| 19 | Then suddenly she remembered the third bedroom , and sat up , hugging her knees . |
| 20 | He moved a little , felt his arm with his good hand , and sat up . |
| 21 | Mouse — the name did suit him , Fox thought with a private grin — yelped and sat up . |
| 22 | She held the phone to her ear with her shoulder and sat up in bed , pushing the newspapers on to the floor . |
| 23 | He let his hand wander a little , and got it petulantly pushed away as she heaved herself out of the clutches of the chesterfield 's upholstery , and sat up on the edge of it . |
| 24 | She undressed and got into bed and sat up with her cocoa mug , sipping at it . |
| 25 | She saw the Doc hovering by the table , and sat up . |
| 26 | She turned over on the bed and sat up . |
| 27 | I opened my eyes and sat up to listen , with the skin furring up on my arms . |
| 28 | Hazel , sensing at once that they had nothing in common with himself and his companions , started and sat up tensely . |
| 29 | But they were , nevertheless , pleased to rediscover one another , and sat up late on their first evening in Esther 's room , which had already begun to put out hints of its later decorative eccentricities . |
| 30 | ‘ Did I say that ? ’ he said , and sat up and combed his hair . |