Example sentences of "i sat in " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sat in my cell expecting to be called out for execution at any moment . |
| 2 | When I got back I sat in front of the big glass with the door shut and the lights off , till dawn . |
| 3 | I sat in the kitchen and read the paper . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ On a flight to New York I sat in my Club Class seat and knitted almost continuously for the seven-hour flight . |
| 6 | I could not understand his absence ; but suddenly , as I sat in the speeding train , a long way already from El Katara , I caught sight of his white burnous on the banks of the oued . |
| 7 | I sat in the cab for half an hour and then this fellow went off . |
| 8 | But … when I sat in the middle of the song , it worked . ’ |
| 9 | After lunch I sat in the car and listened to a Bush press conference . |
| 10 | I sat in the coffee bar for a long time . |
| 11 | The therapist did n't attempt to persuade me that I had nothing to fear ; instead , every week I sat in her calm , warm room and talked about my family , my friendships , my feelings about myself , my ambitions . |
| 12 | I sat in a thirteenth-century hall in Bruges in September 1988 and listened to Mrs Thatcher 's speech on the future of Europe . |
| 13 | I sat in the evening twilight with a glass of straw-coloured wine in its traditional glass of heavy amber stem and base . |
| 14 | Last Sunday I sat in a cold room with my daughter , the two of us reviling the malign fate which had robbed us of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea , our weekly TV fix . |
| 15 | I had plenty of time to think this through as I sat in my leisure jam that Sunday . |
| 16 | Forty years later , I sat in the drawing-room of his home at Sevenoaks in Kent , watching him shake his head vigorously from side to side as he contemplated the ruins of his own efforts to resolve the Palestine problem . |
| 17 | I sat in the café as the rain showed no sign of letting up and drew up a short list of people I had met with whom I could air my perplexity . |
| 18 | I sat in a corner looking at the Dutchmen who smiled surreptitiously from the platform . |
| 19 | If I had developed some measure of showmanship over the years , I felt it was not much use to me or anyone else while I sat in my office and let junior producers have all the fun . |
| 20 | I sat in the children 's ward , the only one left , and nursed a little boy who had once again returned , but who had developed a whooping cough complication on ‘ the day ’ itself . |
| 21 | Ten minutes after that — I sat in triumph , six precious months supply of the pill in my grasp . |
| 22 | I sat in the office one afternoon when I was off-duty , toying with the usual coffee and a wad ( a hard NAAFI bun of indeterminate ingredients ) , watching a young aircrew Sergeant Wireless Op/Air Gunner whom I knew slightly . |
| 23 | I sat in the grandstand , shaking my head . |
| 24 | They were still talking when I continued on my way back to my roomette where I sat in comfortable privacy for a while reading the timetable and also reflecting that although I still had no answers to the old questions , I now had a whole crop of new ones , the most urgent being whether or not Filmer had already known the Youngs were friends of Ezra Gideon . |
| 25 | I sat in an open posture and avoided nervous mannerisms ( i.e. not with arms folded ) . |
| 26 | Gandalf says as much at II , 99 , though he is laconic about it — ‘ I sat in a high place ( the great tree in Lothlórien ? ] , and I strove with the Dark Tower ’ — since Aragorn and the others he is addressing can have no idea what is being referred to . |
| 27 | The other half I sat in the Sheikha 's section trying to be as inconspicuous as possible . |
| 28 | I sat in the back of the car while Richard drove and Flora talked ; the car established rhythms ; the landscape flowed past ; I looked out of the window and felt my thoughts flow too , relaxed and liberated . |
| 29 | I sat in cafés or stood in bus queues observing the phenomenon of heterosexuality . |
| 30 | I went along as Central Fire Controller ( CFC ) however , I sat in the nose for take-off , which was very exciting ! |