Example sentences of "[noun prp] sit [adv prt] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neil sat down at the table and placed his newspaper on its gaudy oilcloth cover . |
| 2 | Scott sat down at his desk and turned his attention to the ledger he had before him . |
| 3 | Guillaume had already bought some drawings of Modigliani 's , but one afternoon at the Rotonde Max Jacob and Modi were sitting together on the terrace with Modi sketching as usual on the Rotonde 's thin paper napkins when Paul Guillaume sat down at their table and asked Modigliani whether he ever painted . |
| 4 | Munro sat down at his desk . |
| 5 | In 1838 having returned from his circumnavigating voyage , Charles Darwin sat down at his desk in his lodgings in Great Marlborough Street , London , to write some brief notes on his views concerning marriage . |
| 6 | Renata Adler sat down at her typewriter at the New York Times and scolded Nicholson for a ‘ dreadfully written script ’ . |
| 7 | Helen sat down at the table and watched him . |
| 8 | The canteen at TV London was largely deserted at half past ten the next morning when Dexter and Blanche sat down at a table in the corner of the self-service section . |
| 9 | Philip sat down at the table . |
| 10 | When he had gone , Sara sat down at her desk . |
| 11 | Kate sits up at home , Dermot being already dead . |
| 12 | Jannie sat down at one corner of the great kitchen table and began to write a shopping list . |
| 13 | Lorton sat down at the table . |
| 14 | Alex sat down at her desk and took several very deep breaths . |
| 15 | Three or four dirty children arrived for tea ; she and Rose were the only clean persons in the kitchen — for so Sally-Anne supposed the room — and while Ma , Rose and Sally-Anne sat down at table the children all stood , and wolfed the food down mannerlessly , fighting among themselves while they did so . |
| 16 | Since McFarlane was an honourable man , North was not unduly worried when he asked him to alter official documents ; and when McFarlane sat down at North 's computer on November 18th to type in ‘ additional input that was radically different from the truth ’ , North still considered he must have had ‘ a darn good reason for not putting the straight story out ’ . |
| 17 | Penelope sat down at the dressing table and tried to do something to her hair . |
| 18 | When Thomas was contentedly playing with his cars , Ashley sat down at the kitchen table . |
| 19 | Sophie sat down at Pascoe 's table and said , ‘ I thought I 'd find you here . ’ |
| 20 | Mitch sat down at the small round table in the corner . |
| 21 | Alexandra sat down at the huge scrubbed table at which she had watched twenty years of bread and pastry being made . |
| 22 | Peggy sat down at the kitchen table and looked at the mail . |
| 23 | Alice sat on at the end of the table , in the quiet kitchen . |