Example sentences of "and i sat " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | So Sid and I sat just outside the trench discussing the events of the day , and swatting mosquitoes . |
| 3 | About 8 p.m. that evening Taff and I sat at the side of our slit trench eating what I thought was a rather dubious lump of meat . |
| 4 | Many years ago Tony and I sat drinking coffee and swapping experiences . |
| 5 | The vestal virgins had gone for a tea break and I sat down thankfully in the cool of the ruins and closed my eyes . |
| 6 | As Manuel and I sat drinking our rum punch outside the tavern in the midday sun , patting Sombro and discussing dogs as pets in our respective homelands , we both knew Sombro 's manhood would remain intact and that , as long as he was able to mooch down to the village , he would do so . |
| 7 | This is a serious point , and I sat on the bridge thinking about how to settle it once and for all . |
| 8 | In the shopping centre , I was gratified to see my name up on the Day 's Attractions board , and I sat down at a prepared place by the side of the stage . |
| 9 | For three weeks I had nothing to do and I sat down and decided — I have recorded all these pieces before — to see if there was not something more behind the music . |
| 10 | Nolan took Fiona , Lewis got drunker , Gareth vanished , the sponsor retrieved his lady : Erica and I sat alone . |
| 11 | Afterwards , as the sparse crowd emerged blinking , Pavic and I sat at our tables piled with books . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The Mau Maus joined in the laughter and I sat back down , feeling better . |
| 14 | It was not a happy journey to the car and I sat silently and unhappily in the back as we drove away , despite my friends ' jolly attempts to think up song titles with the word ‘ flask ’ in them . |
| 15 | And I sat with him until he went to sleep , and he really looked peaceful … |
| 16 | Paddy handed me a mug of tea and I sat down on a jerry-can . |
| 17 | On top of the cart , Liam started to sing again , ‘ On the banks of the roses my love and I sat down … ’ |
| 18 | He sat down on the wooden chair and I sat on the bed . |
| 19 | Our wartime experiences were nearly at an end and I sat there thinking of all the many people I had known briefly , wondering if I should see any of them again , and remembering the many whom I knew I should never see again . |
| 20 | I left George 's office and went two doors along to my roomette to dig my telescopic-lens binoculars-camera out of Tommy 's holdall , and I sat and waited by the window for gaunt-face 's return . |
| 21 | Nell was sitting alone at a table in the dining car working on her interminable lists ( those usually clipped to the clipboard ) and I sat down opposite her feeling ashamed of myself . |
| 22 | Five 15-year-old girls and I sat clattering away while they giggled and nudged each other . |
| 23 | John has had his career and I sat by and supported him . |
| 24 | They put the parcels on the table and tidied the room while Frankie and I sat on the sofa and watched . |
| 25 | After lunch we retired to the drawing-room where the camera crew had already set up , and I sat on one sofa and he on another . |
| 26 | That summer the maternal grandmother 's gift of a Ramadan feast was brought without question to the family majlis , and the young Sheikh , his friends and I sat together for those last painful moments of the first day of Ramadan . |
| 27 | Adam Springer and I sat silent , smoking to comfort our inferiority . |
| 28 | There was a delicate , crystal clarity and I sat and wrote out all the names of the hills in sight . |
| 29 | I went into this field and I sat there and cried for hours in this pouring rain and I suddenly thought to myself , ‘ This is ridiculous , this is no good — you 're not meant to be an actor , you 're meant to be something else — a comedian . ’ |
| 30 | Gwenellen and I sat on drinking tea while the dining-room was cleared around us . |