Example sentences of "[pron] sat at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sat at one end of the table and Wallis sat at the other end . |
| 2 | Benjamin and I sat at one end of the trestle board , they sat at the other , grouped together like stupid boys immersed in their own private jokes . |
| 3 | Tony Brough ( the Principal ) and I sat at High Table , but it was very democratic because the students also took it in turns to sit at High Table — and to be invited to the Principal 's office for pre-dinner drinks ! |
| 4 | The bar had just opened and the only customer was Ernie Passmore , who sat at one of the tables , a huge , freckled hand clasping a pint glass . |
| 5 | We sat at one of the two tables just beneath the dais . |
| 6 | We sat at long desks which held five pupils . |
| 7 | She and Corrie were allowed to play while the other children attended lessons in alphabets and multiplication tables , but they sat at one end of the long playroom like wilting flowers , still too unhappy at their uprooting to do anything . |
| 8 | They sat at one of the marble-topped tables and ordered coffee from a bored waitress who scarcely spared them a glance . |
| 9 | They sat at separate tables and waited until the band started its last set with a synthesised pastiche of Hello Dolly . |
| 10 | Tight-lipped , she drove in silence , keeping her eyes firmly on the road , but as they sat at red traffic-lights waiting for them to change she could n't keep silent any longer . |
| 11 | Whenever they came to meetings at the department they sat at opposite ends of the table . |
| 12 | She remembered how the table around which they sat at High Tea , was covered with a sheet of speckled grey lino which had a strange stickiness . |
| 13 | They sat at different places in the room , most of them also with drinks cradled in their hands . |
| 14 | Now he sat at one of the tables , cradling a glass of white wine in one hand . |
| 15 | He knew that Aileen was not interested in him , so he sat at one of Tildy 's tables , said nothing , and ate his fish . |
| 16 | He sat at this very table and , when he was gone , your two creatures came and asked me what he said . |