Example sentences of "[v-ing] at a desk " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stepped forward and discovered , sitting at a desk which stood the right way up , a small dark man . |
| 2 | Women may have problems keeping weight down at the time of the menopause and after , and men and businesswomen have their own difficulties if their work involves a good deal of sitting at a desk or car wheel , and giving or receiving hospitality lunches . |
| 3 | It also neutralizes the ill effects of sitting at a desk all day and eating large lunches . |
| 4 | When back pain and arthritis are the problems it can help to take short rests or breaks from a long stint in one position — say sitting at a desk or standing at an ironing-table . |
| 5 | ‘ Sitting at a desk in front of your computer . |
| 6 | Zelma , bless her , who has always regarded her son-in-law as a sort of concierge who somehow manages to throw up the odd masterpiece in between sitting at a desk , gazing uselessly out of the window and making endless messes in her kitchen with his coffee dregs and fag ash , had been popping into the study at fairly regular intervals , with unspecific enquiries . |
| 7 | Observation of operator performance within many high technology systems reveals nothing more than a person sitting at a desk scanning various kinds of displays at intervals and just occasionally picking up a telephone , making a note in a log-book or manipulating a control . |
| 8 | This showed him sitting at a desk , pencil in hand : his mother 's vision of what school should be about . |
| 9 | Sitting at a desk working on a book could hardly be more different from battling through a polar blizzard , but it presents a different sort of challenge . |
| 10 | To our right , in the corner , Ali is sitting at a desk , signing pamphlets . |
| 11 | A man was sitting at a desk , typing , another stood by a filing cabinet . |
| 12 | ‘ Yet you expect me to conduct the case and arrive at decisions , even order an arrest , while sitting at a desk . ’ |
| 13 | Conway 's secretary , Marie , was sitting at a desk . |
| 14 | For example , it is very important for a wife who is also a busy mother to learn to speak the local language , but she may have no time for sitting at a desk and making her own drills or doing her own analysis . |
| 15 | ‘ All right , I know you do n't have an ounce more than I do , though you should , sitting at a desk all day . ’ |
| 16 | I 'd never heard of work till that moment , and there I was thinking of myself dressed in trousers and sitting at a desk with a ledger . |
| 17 | ‘ I just could n't stand it any more back in Bes Pelargic , ’ Twoflower went on blithely , ‘ sitting at a desk all day , just adding up columns of figures , just a pension to look forward to at the end of it … where 's the romance in that ? |
| 18 | By rights , Kate — my partner 's secretary — should have been sitting at a desk in the foyer doing the initial vetting , but you beat us to it ; you were very quick off the mark . |
| 19 | She is sitting at a desk , smiling out of wide-set eyes , leaning slightly forward and gazing straight into the camera with a kind of fervent intensity . |
| 20 | ‘ They sent me out to do a match report and while I was sitting at a desk typing it up , Captain Bob appeared in the office , attracted by the presence of television cameras . |
| 21 | Sitting at a desk . |
| 22 | Generally speaking , compared with being sedentary ( sitting watching TV , working at a desk ) , you will burn around three times more calories walking at 3 miles an hour . |
| 23 | As he made his way up , feeling like a schoolboy with skimped prep , his eye caught , with a start of surprise , the rotund shape of Mr Kronweiser , eyes darting suspiciously in all directions , working at a desk . |