Example sentences of "he sit at the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | He sat at the top of the stairs as the news sank in . |
| 4 | He sat at the head of the table and was served by kneeling courtiers such as might have attended a real prince . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He sat at the end of Jitka 's bed , while she tried to lead her sisters in their song about St Wenceslas . |
| 11 | He sat at the side of the road and surveyed the sun-parched land before him . |