Example sentences of "[pers pn] sat in the corner " in BNC.

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1 When she had finished she sat in the corner of her bedroom and wept .
2 I remember being at primary school and the boys went to play football and you sat in the corner playing talking or the boys played football and the girls , would you believe it , got sex education !
3 They sat in the corner and he pumped her for any information she might have gleaned from Wickham .
4 He sat in the corner of the Silver Shuriken , as far away from the bleeding video jukebox and bleeping zapper games as possible , sipping the foul antifreeze that passed for beer in the U.S. of Bloody A. He would have cut off his left doughnut and sold it to Johnny Galtieri for a pint of Six X Wadsworth , two bacon-and-cheddar sarnies and a packet of crisps with a blue twist of salt in them .
5 He sat in the corner farthest from the door , a good-looking man in his fifties , with a twinkle in his eye despite three years ' captivity , recalling incidents from his Scottish childhood in amazing detail .
6 At last , when darkness had covered the city , he sat in the corner of a closed taxicab .
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