Example sentences of "i sat " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sat in my cell expecting to be called out for execution at any moment . |
| 2 | I sat for half an hour outside the dining room like a pickle in a jam factory . |
| 3 | I only had twenty four hours ' notice and then I sat up all night learning a speech and then dried flat at the audition . |
| 4 | When I got back I sat in front of the big glass with the door shut and the lights off , till dawn . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I sat in the kitchen and read the paper . |
| 7 | I sat on the gallery floor and watched through the balusters . |
| 8 | Without waiting for him to invite me to do so , I sat down . |
| 9 | When I arrived home , I sat down at my desk and wrote a letter . |
| 10 | I sat with my head in my hands for a while , then I went over to my desk and took out a small framed photograph of Anne and myself which I always hid before she arrived . |
| 11 | It was a rather rickety affair that creaked embarrassingly when I sat down in it and ever after when I moved . |
| 12 | I sat there , numbed by what had happened . |
| 13 | I ran down the pavement to get as far away from the hotel as I could , then I sat down in a doorway and continued crying . |
| 14 | I sat quietly for a while finishing my most recent cup of coffee . |
| 15 | I bought myself a mug of tea at the counter in order to pay for something for a change , then I sat and waited for Kathleen . |
| 16 | I sat there trying to remember all the details of what she had told me . |
| 17 | I sat down again and lapsed into dreamland . |
| 18 | I sat waiting patiently for the wedding to end . |
| 19 | I sat back and relaxed for a moment . |
| 20 | I sat down and Katrina soon joined me again . |
| 21 | ‘ father brought me up here on his back in the spring one year , and I sat in the moor while he and old Donald were digging peats . |
| 22 | Leonard recalled his own practice of that time , an ‘ instinctive ’ use of ‘ primitive meditation ’ : ‘ I sat with my hands on my lap , like a cataleptic … like Ezekiel ! |
| 23 | I sat down and read further . |
| 24 | I sat there with my elbows on the table . |
| 25 | I sat on the shore and stared at all the junk left on the beach : beer bottles , paper wrappers , bits of clothing , shreds of cigarettes . |
| 26 | I sat unhappily in the empty church with two lines of thought . |
| 27 | I sat with her , gave her my drink bottle , stuffed her with glucose and encouraged her to rest for a while . |
| 28 | For a long time I sat out on the crumbling turf , with the blue distances below , and warm sun lying over this lovely autumn land . |
| 29 | ‘ On a flight to New York I sat in my Club Class seat and knitted almost continuously for the seven-hour flight . |
| 30 | I sat next to Pat Collins who is a very intelligent and delightful woman . |