Example sentences of "he sat [prep] [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Climbing aboard , he sat beside a man with three pairs of spectacles around his neck . |
| 2 | When he came back he sat beside the litter of his meal on the table among the three children not quite knowing what to do with himself . |
| 3 | He sat beside the wide fires all day , overflowing his stool like a walrus on a rock , half a dozen wooden spoons ready at hand . |
| 4 | It was a cold and damp winter , but he recovered slowly and indeed seemed cheerful ; he sat beside the open coal fire in the drawingroom and would sometimes sing music-hall ditties as his wife ministered to him — " coddling " , he used to call it . |
| 5 | He sat astride a ladder-backed wooden chair , his legs splayed out in front of him . |
| 6 | He sat astride the Lock gates and began to pull himself out along the top of them . |
| 7 | He sat for a while without speaking , apparently debating how many of his thoughts to share . |
| 8 | When he came back in the evening he sat for a long time gazing out across the V-shaped valley leading south . |
| 9 | Then he sat for a while on the aisle stand which was a box covering the auto-pilot , where he was able to look out through the nose . |
| 10 | And he sat for a long time in a melancholy reverie as the ants continued to drift down , thinking of the futility of all endeavour . |
| 11 | He sat for a moment longer , staring across the garden and then , still without speaking , he bent and kissed her . |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't know , ’ he said as he sat to the table . |
| 13 | He sat to the left of the huge fireplace . |
| 14 | He sat opposite the Colonel . |
| 15 | He sat as a Unionist councillor and , when the Unionist Party became dominated by powersharers , he moved to Vanguard , then to Baird 's United Ulster Unionist Party , and only switched to Paisley 's Democratic Unionist Party after the demise of the UUUP . |
| 16 | When arrangements were made in the summer of 1278 to establish two permanent circuits of the general eyre he was one of the justices appointed to the ‘ northern ’ circuit and he sat as a junior justice in every eyre of that circuit down to 1288 . |
| 17 | Though not a Leveller sympathizer , he sat as a leading London Independent on the committee that drafted the second Agreement of the People . |
| 18 | For the next four years he sat as an engrossing clerk on a stool in the dusty office , so thick with dust that it entered the sunbeams ; and bent over crabbed writing in the books , or showed dull clients in to see his father , or sat the examinations , which he passed . |
| 19 | He sat on a stool in my kitchen while I was cooking lunch and said , ‘ Do you like this song ? and proceeded to play ‘ Space Oddity ’ . |
| 20 | He sat on a chair that was embroidered , like the thing you knelt on in church . |
| 21 | The reviews were not entirely dismissive , but Hardy remembered only the harsh comments in the Spectator , read ‘ as he sat on a stile leading to the eweleaze he had to cross on his way home to Bockhampton . |
| 22 | When he was semi-retired he sat on a chair in the corner of the saloon , gossiping away to his customers . |
| 23 | He stood over her for a moment , smiling gently , then he sat on a chair so that she did n't have to look up at him . |
| 24 | The estimable Anderson spoke half-truths as his friend and fellow bag-carrier , Billy Gunn , now explained as he sat on a green caddies ' bench and waited for the call to duty . |
| 25 | Instead he sat on a chair beside the bed and tried to cover Paula 's saucy black lace see-through dress with the sheets . |
| 26 | He sat on a huge leather chair with a sigh of relief and it was clear to Hari that his leg had been giving him trouble . |
| 27 | While Auntie Lou set out the food , he sat on a flat rock to recover and talked about the old days . |
| 28 | He sat on a chair facing the desk and did not look at Mr Rose , though he did from time to time tilt his head to measure the angled slices of building and reflected light arranged by the blind . |
| 29 | He sat on a stool by the breakfast bar while she made coffee . |
| 30 | He sat on a kitchen chair while she peeled back the plaster he 'd stuck over the wound . |