Example sentences of "he sit at the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 He watched his dejected figure walk past him into the cottage and , after allowing a few minutes to elapse , followed him in and discovered him sitting at the table in the living room , his bag of apples and sandwich lying untouched .
2 Since the quadrupling of the defence budget in 1950–55 , the president 's main source of power has come from the fact that he sits at the head of a great ‘ national security state ’ — to adopt the phrase of Daniel Patrick Moynihan , a Democratic senator .
3 For example the owner of a motor vehicle can be said to use it where he sits at the side of the driver , who is not his employee and the vehicle is being used for his purpose ( Cobb v Williams [ 1973 ] RTR 1 13 ) .
4 He sat at the top of the stairs as the news sank in .
5 He sat at the head of the table and was served by kneeling courtiers such as might have attended a real prince .
6 He sat at the head of the table carefully scrutinising the document in front of him as if it were a religious text which he had to examine for scriptural errors .
7 He sat at the head of the table in his white shirt , beautifully washed by Giovanna , with a silk scarf knotted at the neck , looking handsome and quizzical as he drank Chianti and told the girls about his less lurid divorce cases and more eccentric clients .
8 Cranston had already dismissed the poem , but when he read the indenture he sat at the foot of the bed stupefied , the parchment held loosely between his fingers .
9 The prince was visibly moved by the bravery of Bronwen Vickers , 33 , a mother of two , from Knutsford , Cheshire , as he sat at the foot of her bed at Warrington General Hospital .
10 He was visibly moved by the bravery of Bronwen Vickers , 33 , a mother of two from Knutsford , Cheshire , as he sat at the foot of her bed at Warrington General Hospital .
11 He sat at the table at the upstairs window , as Montaine used to sit in her room in the smallholding , overlooking a view much like the one she loved over heathland towards the forest .
12 He sat at the end of Jitka 's bed , while she tried to lead her sisters in their song about St Wenceslas .
13 He sat at the side of the road and surveyed the sun-parched land before him .
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