Example sentences of "sat for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sat for half an hour outside the dining room like a pickle in a jam factory . |
| 2 | It was one of the schools that came out of the Reformation , for it was founded during the reign of Queen Mary by a landowner who sat for Derbyshire in Parliament . |
| 3 | Moran sat for a long time . |
| 4 | They sat for a long time in silence watching the Atlantic crash down on the empty shore . |
| 5 | He sat for more than an hour alone before dragging himself to the room , shutting the doors loudly behind him as he went . |
| 6 | He sat for hours staring into a hand mirror , tilting it this way and that and bending his head . |
| 7 | He just sat for a while in a sort of communal TV room with a few old loons . |
| 8 | Afterwards I sat for a long time trying to reconcile myself to these new ideas . |
| 9 | Dorothea sat for a moment longer , remembering Alida , her tears , her loss of all control . |
| 10 | McQuade was a working-class Protestant , ex-soldier , docker , and professional boxer who sat for North Belfast and continued the independent unionist tradition of men like Henderson and Nixon . |
| 11 | It was totally unbalanced — there were ten or so Labour people , and about four hundred Conservatives — it sat for about three hours every day , and there were a great number like Halifax , Salisbury , Beaverbrook who had been prominent in political life . |
| 12 | He sat for a while without speaking , apparently debating how many of his thoughts to share . |
| 13 | I sat for a while thinking of what I 'd said and of what he 'd told me , and I still could n't believe that any of the people I 'd come to know so well was really a murderer . |
| 14 | I sat for what seemed a long time in the cold darkness , breathing shallowly , not moving at all , just waiting , and eventually there was a lightening of the shadows and a luminosity in the wood , and the moon rose clear and bright in the east . |
| 15 | Upstream , through the gorge known as the Wachau , runs one of the prettiest stretches of the river and I sat for a pleasant hour on its embankment watching the swallows skim its waters . |
| 16 | Tritsis was intensely proud of his Ionian origins and from 1981 to 1989 he sat for Cephalonia and Ithaca , the constituency of Odysseus , in the Athens parliament . |
| 17 | They sat for half an hour in silence , turning the pages and scribbling notes . |
| 18 | But the old Jew sat for a long time in silence as the wind and rain in the darkness outside lashed at the windows of Damiani 's old home . |
| 19 | She sat for a while , becoming quieter , breathing deeply , ceasing to tremble . |
| 20 | She sat for a while , checking an anguish which made her want to sob . |
| 21 | Henry sat for quite a long time thinking about the conversation between Elinor and her mother as they hurtled down the Paso della Lagastrella , brakeless . |
| 22 | The next morning , after I had drunk some coffee and sat for an hour with the first suggestions of boredom stirring inside me , the Feldwebel who had enjoyed the ride in the Mercedes so much came to the door . |
| 23 | We sat for an hour wondering if any soup would be issued . |
| 24 | We stood for the hymn , sat for the Bible reading , knelt for the prayers . |
| 25 | They sat for a while in thoughtful silence while the shower passed from the surface of the lake and the light hiss of the rain ceased . |
| 26 | Allen sat for a moment on the parapet , Marian saw him smile at her , then he slipped over the edge and the rope grew taut on the hook . |
| 27 | When he came back in the evening he sat for a long time gazing out across the V-shaped valley leading south . |
| 28 | I sat for a while watching the scenery slide by , wild uninhabited stretches of green and autumn-blazing trees , grey rocks and blue lakes punctuated by tiny hamlets and lonely houses , all vivid in the afternoon sunshine , a panoramic impression of the vastness of Canada and the smallness of her population . |
| 29 | I sat for an hour in my roomette looking out at the unvarying scenery and trying to imagine anything else that Filmer might have paid to have done . |
| 30 | We sat for a while , saying little , until I started into a description of Changez 's ‘ specials ’ , his camp-bed and the bizarre spectacle of a man falling in love with his wife . |