Example sentences of "and sat at the " in BNC.

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1 MacDiarmid waved him forward with a commanding sweep of his arm and he came and sat at the end of the table .
2 Then he got pen and writing pad and sat at the table .
3 John slowly rose and sat at the table where he was soon joined by the two women .
4 Modigliani , of course , spotted her at once and came and sat at the next table .
5 We followed him outside and sat at the tin table under the tree .
6 Greg went out on the course with Laura about 11 PM and sat at the bleachers on the 18th with a bottle of champagne while he went over his round again .
7 The Frenchwoman who ran the hotel came in with a crowd of people and sat at the only other table .
8 Hari made tea and sat at the table , her hands curled around the warmth of the cup .
9 She spooned four heaped spoonfuls of sugar into it and some condensed milk and sat at the kitchen table .
10 Alice made coffee , set around the mugs , and sat at the head of the table .
11 William got in first , and sat at the front .
12 She took her early morning tea to the garden , and sat at the table to drink it .
13 Benjamin covered the woman 's face with a cloth and sat at the table .
14 Athelstan went into the nave and sat at the base of a pillar , legs crossed , whilst he stared up at the high altar behind the rood screen .
15 ‘ Come and have a drink , ’ said Cormack , and they moved into the bar and sat at the fixed tables and watched the glasses slide from rim to rim .
16 ‘ I went to Co Tyrone , my mother 's county , with the cup all day and then came home and sat at the fire with my wife and talked about the hotel and what had gone on that day . ’
17 A woman walked in and sat at the middle of the counter — Maxim had chosen the furthest end .
18 Katy sighed and sat at the table beside him .
19 I sat by the fire and read the file twice , then I went back into the kitchen , made myself some more tea and a chicken sandwich and sat at the table , eating the sandwich and thinking about things .
20 Half an hour later , he went into the Lights of Lisbon and sat at the bar .
21 He went and got his overcoat and put it on over his pyjamas and sat at the table smoking a cigarette .
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