Example sentences of "i 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 | Afterwards I sat for a long time trying to reconcile myself to these new ideas . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I sat for hours staring at the sea . |
| 9 | After the girls had gone I sat for a little time , thinking . |
| 10 | I sat for about three quarters of an hour before I could continue the journey . |
| 11 | I sat for it at Sutton Place — he did n't clown around when he was painting me , but talked of David , Ingres , Velázquez . ’ |
| 12 | I sat for a while holding the baby under my hands . |
| 13 | I sat for a long while , clutching the unfinished poem , gazing beyond it . |
| 14 | When he disappeared behind the dunes I sat for a while , scratching my crotch as the wind played with my hair and the birds returned to their nests . |
| 15 | Let when I tell you Edna , I s , I do sing you see so I sat for . |
| 16 | and a cup of coffee and a cigarette , and I always do that but this day I was so tired after the doing the garden , both gardens like and fucking weeding them all and doing everything else and brushing out the back and doing I said to him for fuck 's sake do them dishes for me for a change William would you I said , so I got er got myself in the bath said I 'm away to bingo , so William 's gone out what happened ? eight , I had eight he had one you may get yourself I said ah fuck no wonder I have no fucking luck , so on the settee and said I 'm not going anywhere , I sat for ten minutes then I said ah fuck you why should I sit here so I lifted the car keys and walked out again then , fucking zooming out of and there was John coming up like that |