Example sentences of "sat [adv] [coord] [vb past] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She hoisted the baby on to her hip and dragging a chair close up to the television set , sat down and stared at the blank screen . |
| 2 | He sat down and stared at the gifts quite speechless . |
| 3 | Whole tribes of proud and even magnificent people have at times sat down and died for no other reason than that their ancient culture has been exposed , even briefly , to one that seems to belong to a superior order . |
| 4 | I sat down and leant against the wall , trying to decide what to do . |
| 5 | Dickinson sat down and looked at the adjutant , appalled . |
| 6 | ‘ I sat down and said to the doctor ‘ So I have cancer ’ and he said ‘ Yes ’ . |
| 7 | The Captain sat down and reached for the telephone . |
| 8 | But still the urge to express her feelings tormented her and at last , in defiance of that dislike she had felt on their last meeting , she sat down and wrote to the person to whom she had once been most close , to Mrs Browning . |
| 9 | She sat down and leaned against the bole of the tree , watching him . |
| 10 | Dorcas sat down and leaned against the yellow metal . |
| 11 | He sat down and pushed at the lid with one filthy paw . |
| 12 | He sat down and fumbled for a cigarette . |
| 13 | We sat down and talked for a while before setting off towards Hawes , as the sun broke through the clouds and the dog pulled him downhill towards the cairns . |
| 14 | They sat down and talked for a short time . |
| 15 | He sat up and stared at the sky in wonder . |
| 16 | He sat up and looked around the room . |
| 17 | It was early yet , she noted , and , feeling in no hurry to start a day that might well fall into the same luckless category as yesterday and the day before and the day before that , she sat up and leant against the headboard . |
| 18 | Mick 's head disappeared from the entrance to the trench as I sat up and listened to a shell burst close by . |
| 19 | Not daring to put on the light , she sat up and felt for the glass of water on the bedside table . |
| 20 | I sat up and turned on the bedside light to see the shadows in the room . |
| 21 | Then quickly she sat up and fumbled in the darkness and found the sheet on which she had written . |
| 22 | I sat back and relaxed for a moment . |
| 23 | ‘ But you 're right , Lewis , ’ added Morse slowly , as he sat back and stared at the ceiling for a few seconds . |
| 24 | So , with flight planning filed , mostly mentally , I sat back and waited for the weather to give me a perfect day . |
| 25 | The DDA sat back and waited for the Exec Director to continue . |
| 26 | With Lithuania not given a snowball 's chance , Lansdowne Road sat back and waited for the avalanche … and waited … and waited . |
| 27 | The female detective sat back and glanced round the bar to see if anyone was taking any notice of them . |
| 28 | He clasped and unclasped his wiry hands two or three times as though wringing out a rag , pulled his legs on to the bed , sat back and replied in a raucous whisper . |
| 29 | And did they , they must have had lean times if they sat around and waited for a boat , one did n't come in some days may be . |
| 30 | But I sat there and listened to the bells . |