Example sentences of "he sat at a " in BNC.

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1 Very loudly ( ad for some time before ) , a tailor had been singing as he sat at a window in a comer of the yard .
2 At that time of year there were few people about and he sat at a table by himself .
3 ‘ But I think it is a pointless exercise , ’ said Floy , somewhere towards morning , a thin , cold light filtering in through the windows to where he sat at a great desk , his black hair tumbled , hollows in his cheeks , his face white with fatigue .
4 He sat at a makeshift desk of unfinished lumber , and wrote and played with his thinning hair .
5 We can infer that George was in a restaurant , and that he sat at a table and looked at a menu .
6 He sat at a large desk covered with papers , journals , medical books , a portable typewriter pushed to one end .
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