Example sentences of "[pron] sat [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sat without a word . |
| 2 | The classrooms in which such learning takes place may look very different from those in which I sat as a child 50 years ago ( the walls are covered with paintings and there is a computer in the corner , the desks are informally arranged ) but the assumption that all learning is determined , ordered and mediated through the teacher is the common thread which links the schools of the 1980s with those of my pre-war childhood . |
| 3 | Hence when I went to the Lords in 1965 I sat as a cross-bencher , although periodically , according to my attitude at the time , I was supporting one or other of the two parties and rarely took a cross-bench approach . |
| 4 | ‘ For four years before being appointed full time I sat as a recorder so I have really been sitting in the crown court for 17 years , ’ said Mr Hewitt , whose work on the North Eastern Circuit has taken him to courts from Humberside to the Scottish and Lancashire borders . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | I sat with a tomato juice in front of me for some time straining my ears to hear what Nigel was saying . |
| 7 | I sat with a cup of coffee on my lap , still half-asphyxiated by what I took to be Neapolitan warmth . |
| 8 | I sat with a price list . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I sat at a table in the window and drank a filtre . |
| 11 | I sat on a large stone , shivering and looked north appealingly , shouting , ‘ Mick ! |
| 12 | When I got to higher ground , I sat on a long , flat slab of white rock in a salmon-pink sea . |
| 13 | I sat on a log among the shadows of creatures now extinct and others long since departed for pasture in the south . |
| 14 | I sat on a committee chaired by Paul Fox , a big representative steering group for the Royal Television Society 's Biennial Cambridge Convention ( the only woman ) , which he had asked me to be on at that time . |
| 15 | I sat on a bench near the door , with my slate . |
| 16 | Perhaps he heard , I do n't know , but he did n't look up and I sat on a stool near the door until it was finished . |
| 17 | I was drinking Monk and Monk was a heavy beer so fuck I gets out of the car and fucking oh fuck , but anyway said to me look I 'll go up , say my name , and I 'll bring you home , I was living with my sister at the time and I sat on a wee low wall , I 'm just the wall , fu fuck I , in the middle of the day , nobody , they were just drinking er Dawn this is way were , it 's fucking maybe twenty five years ago , twenty six and er fuck he sat me on the wall he had to s I could n't see he says to me er fucking I heard a voice , Raymond like this is the exam tonight you 'll have to sit there . |
| 18 | I sat on an upturned box , feeling the sweat beginning to trickle down my back . |
| 19 | Afterwards I sat for a long time trying to reconcile myself to these new ideas . |
| 20 | I sat for a while thinking of what I 'd said and of what he 'd told me , and I still could n't believe that any of the people I 'd come to know so well was really a murderer . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I sat for a while watching the scenery slide by , wild uninhabited stretches of green and autumn-blazing trees , grey rocks and blue lakes punctuated by tiny hamlets and lonely houses , all vivid in the afternoon sunshine , a panoramic impression of the vastness of Canada and the smallness of her population . |
| 23 | After the girls had gone I sat for a little time , thinking . |
| 24 | I sat for a while holding the baby under my hands . |
| 25 | I sat for a long while , clutching the unfinished poem , gazing beyond it . |
| 26 | When he disappeared behind the dunes I sat for a while , scratching my crotch as the wind played with my hair and the birds returned to their nests . |
| 27 | I sat for an hour in my roomette looking out at the unvarying scenery and trying to imagine anything else that Filmer might have paid to have done . |
| 28 | I sat upon a disintegrating gravestone . |
| 29 | I sat like a Hector until I suddenly remembered my stomach and began noisily to vomit . |
| 30 | I sat beneath a metal-framed photograph ( black and white ) of fishing-boats at the Ile d'Oleron . |