Example sentences of "sat down [conj] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So when he had seen the sign ahead of him in the street , he 'd walked right in and sat down and demanded to be attended to . |
| 2 | She hoisted the baby on to her hip and dragging a chair close up to the television set , sat down and stared at the blank screen . |
| 3 | I was totally staggered at receiving the letter and sat down and stared at it . |
| 4 | He sat down and stared at the gifts quite speechless . |
| 5 | She sat down and stared at her ice cream . |
| 6 | She murmured good morning , sat down and stared at her open notebook , the tip of her pen poised above the clean page . |
| 7 | Whole tribes of proud and even magnificent people have at times sat down and died for no other reason than that their ancient culture has been exposed , even briefly , to one that seems to belong to a superior order . |
| 8 | I sat down and leant against the wall , trying to decide what to do . |
| 9 | Jackson recently sat down and listened through his collected works , prior to making selections for the current live show , and found the thread wearing a little thin in places . |
| 10 | Then we e enhanced it and then eventually er Robin knocked this up you see from all the work we 'd done , but we never sat down and went through this . |
| 11 | I caught a bit of it on and we sat down and went to sleep . |
| 12 | Dickinson sat down and looked at the adjutant , appalled . |
| 13 | But after he sat down and thought about it he came in and apologised to the lads . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ But after he sat down and thought about it he has come in and apologised to the lads and realised he maybe should not have said it . |
| 15 | He 's probably walked in and seen that and thought , I 'm not having this and when he sat down and thought about it , like we 've done |
| 16 | And so Inchbad sat down and beamed at Fenella and said they would be interested to hear her stories and , at the same time , nodded to the waiting Fiachra Broadcrown to get the Fidchell squares ready for the Gnomes . |
| 17 | Shrugging her superb shoulders , Comfort sat down and waited for his explanation . |
| 18 | ‘ I sat down and said to the doctor ‘ So I have cancer ’ and he said ‘ Yes ’ . |
| 19 | I was beginning to think that the staring match would never stop when he suddenly sat down and began to finger some papers on the top of his desk . |
| 20 | The Captain sat down and reached for the telephone . |
| 21 | And she sat down and proceeded to slowly tell Alyssia about herself . |
| 22 | But still the urge to express her feelings tormented her and at last , in defiance of that dislike she had felt on their last meeting , she sat down and wrote to the person to whom she had once been most close , to Mrs Browning . |
| 23 | Fernando sat down and leaned towards her , taking her small hot hand in his . |
| 24 | She sat down and leaned against the bole of the tree , watching him . |
| 25 | Dorcas sat down and leaned against the yellow metal . |
| 26 | He sat down and pushed at the lid with one filthy paw . |
| 27 | We sat down and spoke about things that had happened . |
| 28 | When he found that it was locked , he understood what his grandsons had done , and he sat down and wept for their hardness of heart . |
| 29 | Henry is , or whether Mrs G. has presented you with a little Tasmanian , or likely to do so , a point upon which her mother is so exceedingly anxious that on finding it was not mentioned she sat down and cried with vexation . ’ |
| 30 | He sat down and fumbled for a cigarette . |