Example sentences of "[pron] seat at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Full of beans , I took my seat at the stalled dinner . |
| 2 | Mrs Chalker , who lost her seat at the general election , faced giving up her job as Minister of the Overseas Development Administration and Britain 's leading representative at the European Bank , leaving a gap in the British team but will continue in her post from the House of Lords . |
| 3 | After a while , when the sickness had passed , she went to the wash-hand basin to wash and freshen-up , then returned to her seat at the dinner table . |
| 4 | When she was appointed Commissioner , second in rank to the General , in July , 1979 , someone left a gardenia , her favourite flower , on her seat at the thanksgiving service . |
| 5 | The SADR first took its seat at the Organization of African Unity summit of 1984 , not 1989 as inadvertently given on pp. 37014 , 37220 . |
| 6 | This series , set in a Boston bar , had become the most popular television comedy of recent years ; and no character was more loved than the mop-headed Norm , whose seat at the corner of the bar seemed the only home he knew . |
| 7 | Buddie suddenly reached behind him with one hand , grabbed Frankie by the sleeve and yanked him from his seat at the table . |
| 8 | THE former chairman of the GLC 's Police Committee and member of Ken Livingstone 's municipal revolutionary guard , Boateng , 40 , has risen rapidly since gaining his seat at the last election . |
| 9 | He took his seat at the fireside , mug in hand , and glanced across at her . |
| 10 | Given that , in 1837 , Buxton initially opposed an immediate move against apprenticeship it is doubtful how much deference would have been shown his leadership by the convention , but he had anyway lost his seat at the recent election . |
| 11 | He went back to his seat at the head of the table . |
| 12 | Although Billing retained his seat at the 1918 general election , ill health forced his retirement in 1921 . |
| 13 | He was thus a particular target for the Tories , and according to his own account lost his seat at the 1702 election after a specific campaign against him inspired by the Tory leaders . |
| 14 | He sat in the 1835–7 Parliament as member for Harwich and assistant whip , losing his seat at the next general election . |
| 15 | Scales got up from his seat at the table in Wycliffe 's little office but Wycliffe waved him back . |
| 16 | He often raises that subject , and we understand his desperation about what will happen to his seat at the next election . |
| 17 | Moynihan , once a junior minister , who had lost his seat at the election , had had the good fortune to buy her a drink the evening before and had suggested ‘ an exquisite light lunch ’ at Macau , the town 's only Portuguese restaurant . |
| 18 | As Gabriel took his seat at the top of the pageant , hidden by a wooden cloud , Garvey robed himself down below in the Mason 's wedding robe , and Izzie emerged from nowhere to mend the tear in the shoulder-seam . |
| 19 | Anxiety is growing over the Government 's commitment to energy sources such as wind , wave and solar power since Colin Moynihan , the Energy Minister who championed the cause , lost his seat at the general election . |
| 20 | During his visit Mr Kinnock attacked the Government for its policies on housing , and predicted that the local Conservative MP would lose his seat at the next general election . |