Example sentences of "sat in the corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ordered a glass of wine and sat in the corner where I could survey the whole place . |
| 2 | Maisie sat in the corner of the kitchen with one chocolate bar in her mouth , another in her right hand , another in her lap and a fourth beside her on the draining board , in case anything should happen to the other three . |
| 3 | When she had finished she sat in the corner of her bedroom and wept . |
| 4 | He sat in the corner of the Silver Shuriken , as far away from the bleeding video jukebox and bleeping zapper games as possible , sipping the foul antifreeze that passed for beer in the U.S. of Bloody A. He would have cut off his left doughnut and sold it to Johnny Galtieri for a pint of Six X Wadsworth , two bacon-and-cheddar sarnies and a packet of crisps with a blue twist of salt in them . |
| 5 | Louise Taylor sat in the corner of the room , her legs tucked under her ; she rested her chin on her knees . |
| 6 | In 1946 , when post-war service began , the TV set sat in the corner for most of the time , as the service lasted for only about four hours a day . |
| 7 | I remember being at primary school and the boys went to play football and you sat in the corner playing talking or the boys played football and the girls , would you believe it , got sex education ! |
| 8 | He sat in the corner farthest from the door , a good-looking man in his fifties , with a twinkle in his eye despite three years ' captivity , recalling incidents from his Scottish childhood in amazing detail . |
| 9 | At last , when darkness had covered the city , he sat in the corner of a closed taxicab . |
| 10 | They sat in the corner and he pumped her for any information she might have gleaned from Wickham . |
| 11 | Vargas sat in the corner drinking coffee and reading a newspaper . |
| 12 | ‘ Tank you , ’ he said , being unusually polite , and toddled off to rummage in his toy box which sat in the corner . |
| 13 | and went and sat in the corner of the bathroom and went , scowled at him for a bit ! |
| 14 | Christmas clothes how you fill in the blanks , I saw something come sailing by , that 's quite good Little Jack Horner sat in the corner eating his |