Example sentences of "[conj] i sat [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first , my mind could not adjust to the missing three months , so that I sat stupidly with the paper in my hands , staring at it . |
| 2 | It was unthinkable to begin walking before knowing the repair was complete , so I sat glumly on the wheelbarrow which we had lifted off the trailer . |
| 3 | ‘ Jenny and I sat up until the early hours chatting . ’ |
| 4 | So Sid and I sat just outside the trench discussing the events of the day , and swatting mosquitoes . |
| 5 | I went into a toilet and there was none and I sat down on the toilet , looked up , they were all above the door , five of them ! |
| 6 | The back was broken and there was only one plank left to sit on , but I sat down on the peeling green paint . |
| 7 | As I sat just outside the entrance to the trench it was very difficult to accept that Taff was dead . |
| 8 | I enquired , as I sat down on the floor beside him . |
| 9 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 10 | As I sat there in the dark , the ship moving gently in the water , I almost fell asleep . |