Example sentences of "sat [adv prt] [adv] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | She sat down again at the table and worked on steadily . |
2 | Irene sat down heavily at the table . |
3 | She was walking now with a stick and as she sat down heavily at the table she seemed depressed . |
4 | The young man sat down readily at the table , leaning his homespun elbows at ease ; and Julian , without being bidden , came forward noiselessly and filled a cup for him . |
5 | This time when he came back in to see her , the air was darkest around his form , but when he grinned over the noise of the men in the room behind the door — a woman 's laugh punctured the air beyond — and he sat down peaceably at the foot of her bed , the blue paled to a translucence like a robin 's egg . |
6 | Her problem behaviour was specific to family lunch at weekends and holidays , the only occasions when the whole family sat down together at the table . |