Example sentences of "[pron] sat at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I sat at the front of the coach , next to the driver . |
| 3 | In any case it would be better if I sat at the table , the light was better there and I should not get lazy . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ! |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I sat at the open window and looked out on to the purple dark . |
| 8 | I SAT AT THE BAR of the Late Nite Lounge , watching the floor show . |
| 9 | Back in my room , I sat at the desk and considered . |
| 10 | I sat at the table we used to use and tried to think what I really believed . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | Foxe describes how ‘ Master Tyndale , a man of no great stature ’ , was courteously persuaded to walk ahead , whilst the tall and comely Philips behind him pointed over his head ‘ so that the officers who sat at the door might see that it was he whom they should take ; as the officers that took Master Tyndale afterwards told Poyntz , they pitied to see his simplicity when they took him . ’ |
| 13 | They possessed a faint whiff of humour , those men who sat at the ankles of Iosif . |
| 14 | He stood in the damp boots that leaked the snow wet to his socks , and he hated the man who sat at the desk . |
| 15 | I am also the woman who sat at the crossroads . |
| 16 | The only sounds in the room were the scratching of his pen-nib as he made each entry , and the chink of coins as he counted them out of the cash box — and the heavy breathing of Marcus Judge , who sat at the other side of the desk , his eyes fixed upon his son . |
| 17 | They passed from her to Louis , who sat at the other end of the sofa reading Le Figaro . |
| 18 | The person who sat at the side of the Secretary of State was the regional officer from Leeds . |
| 19 | Then she sat at the big table with only a pot of tea for herself while Frankie and his father cleared their plates in silence . |
| 20 | She sat at the edge of the cockpit , curled her legs into the warm shelter of the jacket , then hunched down into the thick collar so that all I could see of her face was her enormous , moon-silvered and lemur-like eyes beneath the pale gleam of her short bright hair . |
| 21 | She sat at the breakfast table , trying to calm her nerves , and eventually she drew the envelope from her housecoat pocket and opened it , reading the words that were written inside , and feeling the blood drain from her face . |
| 22 | She sat at the table with a shrug , the green eyes troubled . |
| 23 | She sat at the feet of Wyatt . |
| 24 | She sat at the table and painstakingly wrote down the sums of money that should have come in for the work already done . |
| 25 | She sat at the window , looking out on the gardens , not wanting to be reminded of her ordeal as her two companions searched for any clues that might have been left . |
| 26 | She sat at the table , picked up one of the pens , and began work . |
| 27 | She sat at the table and counted what she had left . |
| 28 | She did n't know how long she sat at the table , letting her coffee go cold . |
| 29 | She sat at the breakfast bar and lit herself a cigarette . |
| 30 | Afraid that at any moment someone would shout ‘ Grab her ! ’ and drag her off to some unspecified yet ineluctable torment , she forced herself at least to look calm while she sat at the console on the dais . |