Example sentences of "she sat down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She sat down on the floor and took great heaving breaths as though she had come up a hill with a burden beyond her strength . |
| 2 | She sat down on the bed . |
| 3 | Marie felt her legs give way beneath her , she sat down on the edge of the pavement , feet in the gutter , doubled-up , sick and winded as if someone had punched her in the stomach . |
| 4 | SHe sat down on the bed . |
| 5 | She sat down on the edge of the worktop . |
| 6 | Then there was silence and she sat down on the chest , weeping and shaking . |
| 7 | Her long , strong legs folded under her and she sat down on the rug in the hallway and sobbed to her heart 's content , while Alex patted her shoulder and wondered if he really understood his sister at all . |
| 8 | Feeling that she could not move her left arm or leg , she sat down on the stairs . |
| 9 | She sat down on the other side of the desk . |
| 10 | ‘ I have n't forgotten how the Dalesfolk talk , you see , Mam , ’ she teased , as she sat down on the bench next to her mother . |
| 11 | She sat down on the heavily bolstered arm of a brocade chair opposite her hostess . |
| 12 | Then she sat down on the bed , took off her hat and eased her patent leather pumps off her rapidly swelling feet . |
| 13 | She sat down on the bench opposite to him and looked at his fat baby face , which was now showing some concern . |
| 14 | Then still holding it , she went to the toilet and , just as she was , she sat down on the edge of the seat and , bending forward , she went through the motion of wringing out the cloth once again . |
| 15 | As she sat down on the couch , Ben sat opposite her on the settle , his big body and large head topping the back of it while his short legs hardly touched the floor . |
| 16 | She sat down on the floor and went to work . |
| 17 | After replacing the receiver she sat down on the edge of the coffee table and smiled to herself . |
| 18 | She sat down on the edge of the bed and pulled off her flat shoes . |
| 19 | She sat down on the bed and held my hand ; all the flippancy was suddenly gone from her face . |
| 20 | She trailed a hand along an imaginary banister , sweeping the other behind where the skirts of a ball-gown would have trailed and was so tangibly created that when she sat down on the sofa Delia Sutherland moved to make room for the folds of that gown . |
| 21 | She sat down on the roses-and-castles chair with a ludicrous sense of formality , as if paying a polite call in a tailored suit and a small , veiled hat . |
| 22 | She sat down on the grass and stayed for a while , talking and laughing with the children in the quiet , sunny garden . |
| 23 | She sat down on the edge of Julia 's bed and offered to brush her hair . |
| 24 | He flung his head to one side and muttered something , his face was twisted up ; he pushed himself away and fell out through the entrance and on to his knees , and she sat down on the floor for her legs felt weak and the wounded one was throbbing painfully , and she crawled over to Sycorax and lay down beside her and sobbed hot , dry grief until she at last fell asleep . |
| 25 | She sat down on the battered settle and opened the letter . |
| 26 | Pulling them from under some old blankets , she sat down on the bed and began to leaf through the pages : photographs fell out , battered , uncherished , not stuck-in — this was no lovingly tended relic . |
| 27 | Placing the night-light against the wall she sat down on the top stair , humping the eiderdown high over her shoulders and gazing into the darkness . |
| 28 | She sat down on the ground and cried . |
| 29 | She sat down on the low wall . |
| 30 | Glowing now after her exercise , she sat down on the rock and pulled her skirts over her knees , hugging them to her so that her chin could rest there while she gazed . |