Example sentences of "sit at [adj] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Is Mrs Cliburn sitting at that end of the room ? ’ |
| 2 | There was nothing obviously wrong — Albert sitting at one end of the table in front of his books and Hepzibah making an apple pie at the other , pressing the pastry top with a fork to make a frill round the edge — but it was as if a light had gone out . |
| 3 | George was sitting at one end of a vast empty dining table , with a little oasis of bottles , coffee pot and cheeseboard at his elbow . |
| 4 | Fraulein Winkelmann was sitting at one end of a small kitchen table , separated from a big colour set at the other end by a cup of coffee and a plate of cream cakes . |
| 5 | You know they mean it , too : a huge second cooling fan sits at one end of the processor card . |
| 6 | [ A total change of mood — BELVILLE and PAMELA sit at either end of the table . ] |
| 7 | She and Corrie were allowed to play while the other children attended lessons in alphabets and multiplication tables , but they sat at one end of the long playroom like wilting flowers , still too unhappy at their uprooting to do anything . |
| 8 | The T'ang and his father sat at one end of the long , darkwood table , facing each other , while Ben sat alone at the other end . |
| 9 | I sat at one end of the table and Wallis sat at the other end . |
| 10 | Benjamin and I sat at one end of the trestle board , they sat at the other , grouped together like stupid boys immersed in their own private jokes . |