Example sentences of "[pron] sit at a " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 |
| 5 | 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 ? ’ |
| 6 | Someone sitting at a table at the far end of the cafe got up and came over to them . |
| 7 | I sat at a table in the window and drank a filtre . |
| 8 | She sits at a tea table with MR . |
| 9 | Only two men and a woman , who sat at a centre table , were not at work , though the woman had a piece of sewing in her hands . |
| 10 | What Katherine found daunting was the ambience within : the large unsmiling woman who sat at a table in the entrance hall and stiffly handed her two sheets of paper , one with a map of the school which showed her own room clearly marked , the other with a long list of instructions printed in four languages , French , German , Italian and English ; a smell which mingled disinfectant and scouring soap ; the difference in temperature between the stifling main body of the school and the chill of the outlying wing where she found her room . |
| 11 | The rest of the place was empty except for Devlin who sat at a table against the far wall reading a small book , a glass of beer at his hand . |
| 12 | She sat at a table while he went to get their lager and ploughman 's lunches . |
| 13 | Bailey gives me instant coffee and a plate of Tesco jam doughnuts , still in their plastic packet , and we sit at a dusty picnic table outside , slapping off flies . |
| 14 | We sat at a special table and just told jokes about the Russians , the Americans , and ourselves . ’ |
| 15 | When you 're doing a melody like Rubina or Always With Me , Always With You they sit at a nice register , but the chorus , second verse of Cryin ’ is right up there , War is up there , Friends is up there . |
| 16 | This showed him sitting at a desk , pencil in hand : his mother 's vision of what school should be about . |
| 17 | They sat at a circular wrought iron table shaded by a willow . |
| 18 | They sat at a table in the corner of the restaurant . |
| 19 | They sat at a low bench hard against the wall . |
| 20 | They sat at a small table by the window . |
| 21 | They had cups of sweet milky tea and they sat at a table . |
| 22 | They sat at a table covered with a checked tablecloth and tiles clicked underfoot ( Mummy brought back the tiles from Spain ) , and there was a big , brick fireplace with horse-brasses and copper pans and the boiler in the middle for the central heating , where there should have been a huge fire . |
| 23 | Inside the bar they descended again into the dining alcove , and they sat at a table by a small-paned window which was back on a level with the path outside . |
| 24 | They sat at a window table in the cafe looking out , watching every car that passed . |
| 25 | They sat at a corner table , a slab of mahogany on an iron base that had once belonged to a Singer sewing machine . |
| 26 | They sat at a table in front of her , and talked quietly . |
| 27 | They sat at a table and looked down at the lights of the shipping in the Tagus . |
| 28 | They sat at a rickety table on the perimeter of the square , under the shade of an umbrella , sipping espresso , eating anisette biscuits , and watching the large , colourful crowd . |
| 29 | When Buck goes to a diner , he sits at a table opposite a creepy woman with a nervous tic who keeps running a grey rubber mouse over her face . |
| 30 | There he sits at a table , a confident and debonaire man-about-town , a bachelor with even a touch of the dandy about him . |