Example sentences of "[coord] sat [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Evidently there was a market not far away , for there were plenty of housewives with shopping bags bulging with fresh vegetables and fruit , while here and there a businessman hurried through the crowd clutching his briefcase or sat scanning a newspaper over his coffee or cognac . |
| 2 | So it was that on a golden autumn evening , towards mid-September of 1937 , I came to write my -30- to a career of journalism cum radio , and sat watching the flatness of the prairies give way to rising foothills as the twin-engined CPR ‘ Dominion ’ crawled westward up the slopes of the mountain . |
| 3 | He took it home with him that night and sat reading the words . |
| 4 | Nutty , unnoticed , had joined the group on Midnight , and sat surveying the new horseflesh without enthusiasm . |
| 5 | I popped the red plastic thermometer in my mouth and sat checking the map . |