Example sentences of "[pron] sit at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They invited them to sit at a table and were joined by an unusually tall , thin man who was extraordinarily blonde for his age which was thirty to thirtyfive . |
| 2 | Like a host in some cheerful tavern , he told them to tether their horses and ushered them in , asking them to sit at the table and wait while he finished his business in his own secret chamber . |
| 3 | When I write biographies , I sit at a large kitchen table with a wide surface on which books and papers can be laid , essential for checking quotations or references . |
| 4 | Gordon and I sit at a table as the old snowys sup their milk stouts and get ready to cross the road to the theatre , where several stars of television are about to perform the fabulous musical My Fair Lady . |
| 5 | In any case , I sit at the stall during daytime . ’ |
| 6 | Before I go to the supermarket , I usually stop off for a drink ; I sit at the bar and watch the real world go by . |
| 7 | ‘ I just keep coming in and see someone sitting at a computer not moving , and I wonder , should the computer be there in lieu of the person ? ’ says one broker |
| 8 | One leading broker admits , ‘ I just keep coming in and see someone sitting at a computer not moving , and I wonder should the computer be there in lieu of the person ? ’ |
| 9 | Someone sitting at a table at the far end of the cafe got up and came over to them . |
| 10 | I sat at a table in the window and drank a filtre . |
| 11 | About 8 p.m. that evening Taff and I sat at the side of our slit trench eating what I thought was a rather dubious lump of meat . |
| 12 | I sat at the front of the coach , next to the driver . |
| 13 | In any case it would be better if I sat at the table , the light was better there and I should not get lazy . |
| 14 | At dinner the two cholerics carried on a huddled conversation while I sat at the end of the row feeling the cutlery might melt in my hands . |
| 15 | The next problem was how to deliver it , since I sat at the back in English ( our next lesson ) and Belinda sat at the front — which was how I knew that her hair touched her chair ! |
| 16 | I sat at the kitchen table , staring at the blind white blankness in front of me , and slowly , like a clear spring welling up from the common earth , the poem rose and spread and filled me , unstoppable as flood water , technique unknotting even as it ran , like snags rolled away on the flood . |
| 17 | I sat at the open window and looked out on to the purple dark . |
| 18 | I SAT AT THE BAR of the Late Nite Lounge , watching the floor show . |
| 19 | Back in my room , I sat at the desk and considered . |
| 20 | I sat at the table we used to use and tried to think what I really believed . |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | Bogle himself sits at the desk by the door and takes the money . |
| 23 | The great man himself sits at an aircraft-carrier of a desk across the room from the entrance . |
| 24 | Spenser throughout the book , and indeed throughout the poem , makes a number of equations which sit at the centre of his ideology . |
| 25 | He also threatened to call in the receiver to Mr Bond 's master corporation and to his private family company , Dallhold Investments — the firm which sits at the top of the whole debt-laden business structure . |
| 26 | In a classroom it can give you the students ' view of the teacher , it can give you the teacher 's view of the students or it can be an observer which sits at the side of the class and looks from one to the other . |
| 27 | One example of an organism possessed of such a rather basic nervous system is the tiny , pond-living hydra ( Fig 7.3 ) , which sits at the bottom of ponds and streams attached to rocks or water plants and waving its tentacles above its mouth . |
| 28 | If you sit at the back of a lecture hall , you 'll get less out of it than if you sit up front . |
| 29 | If you sit at the White House in the Oval Office and give orders then nothing will happen . |
| 30 | That 's cos you sit at the end . |