Example sentences of "as [pron] sit at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A lovely lady , Molly Braithwaite , came to teach , and one day as I sat at the back I felt ‘ Surely I could do a little of that gently swinging ’ , picked up a club , and was off ‘ moving with the Medau ’ . |
| 2 | When he had left Merrill breathed a sigh of relief , but as she sat at the dressing-table removing her make-up something inside her wept . |
| 3 | Well , that makes two of us , Hilary thought with a little smile as she sat at the table . |
| 4 | The words stuck in Folly 's mind , coming back to her next morning as she sat at the Rose Bowl 's work-table , preparing roses for conditioning by crushing the tips of their stems with a heavy mallet . |
| 5 | As we sat at the loch eating a cold lunch , deciding who could first pin the blame on the other for messing up the day , we heard voices from the cliffs surrounding the lochan . |
| 6 | Between national curriculum levels and general skills and abilities as it sits at the moment ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The mail arrived early and he opened his letters as he sat at the breakfast table . |
| 10 | The raw , rough feeling in his voice was so obvious that Julia forgot all her determined restraint of the previous evening and put her arms around him as he sat at the table , laying her head on his . |
| 11 | ‘ What 's it all mean ? ’ asked Lewis , as he sat at the table , with a pint of Brakspear for Morse and a half of the same for himself . |