Example sentences of "sit at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Swear when he was sat at the top of the stairs shivering he looked so thin . |
| 2 | was she sat at the bottom you know |
| 3 | A tall woman of about forty , who had sat at the back , slipped away without speaking to anyone . |
| 4 | Well I mean the motion actually has been moved , I do take the point , I mean it 's a fair point , but erm not sure where John 's sat sat at the back , yes |
| 5 | I pulled out the stool which Billy must have sat at the desk on , and began to rifle through things in no particular order . |
| 6 | He remembered all the nights when his sisters had sat at the end of his bed and sobbed their hearts out over some man . |
| 7 | Subsequently the student 's study is devoted to Chemistry , on which written examinations are sat at the end of the third year . |
| 8 | This was the first time Minton had sat at the wheel throughout the entire journey and his ineptitude was such that , after repeated jolts and much stalling , Norman saw they would get nowhere unless he took over . |
| 9 | Many are the times me wife and I have sat at the table with a large sheet of graph paper and worked it all out , only to find that either my ruler 's idea of an inch does n't tally with the real thing , or the width of a pencil line on the plan actually equates to a foot in real life . |
| 10 | He had presided , sitting at the desk , but had n't used the blotter . |
| 11 | But something kept me sitting at the desk . |
| 12 | He told me to wait , but soon I was ushered into an office with an enormous map of Parma province on the wall , and a senior officer in uniform sitting at the desk . |
| 13 | He found Kersey , sitting at the desk in an upstair , borrowed office surrounded by house-to-house reports prepared on the premises . |
| 14 | When Schellenberg , vent into the small medical room , Eggar was sitting at the desk while the Legation 's doctor taped his right hand . |
| 15 | He found her sitting at the desk which was quite clear . |
| 16 | Lucy Lane was sitting at the desk , turning the pages of a loose-leaf manuscript file . |
| 17 | Sitting at the desk , she drew a deep breath . |
| 18 | because , you know , you will see a couple of doctors wandering around and sitting at the desk |
| 19 | The teacher was sitting at the pastry table with several children . |
| 20 | While he talked with Atkins , writes Walker , ‘ Norma and Dulcie were symbolically , sitting at the stern , neither of the men thinking to tell them of the course they were plotting . ’ |
| 21 | I could n't face sitting at the station waiting for him to turn up : I was damn well going to make him wait for me . |
| 22 | When sitting at the breakfast table you may not actually measure the distance between your hand and the coffee cup , but you seldom miss . |
| 23 | She threw her arms around Piers where he was sitting at the breakfast table , and nipped his neck with her teeth . |
| 24 | She had expected to find them both still in bed , and was surprised by the noises from the kitchen , but she poked her head round the door and saw Maggie sitting at the kitchen table eating Weetabix in a reassuringly healthy way . |
| 25 | Meanwhile Maggie stayed sitting at the kitchen table . |
| 26 | He was sitting at the kitchen table , wearing one of Buddie 's shirts and sipping cocoa from a large cup , when his nanny , Buddie 's mam , arrived at the house . |
| 27 | So he was sitting at the kitchen table eating his plate of beans when Donald walked in . |
| 28 | Later , while sitting at the kitchen table making a special list of people to help with Easter flowers , and a subsidiary list of those who might be approached to donate Easter lilies , Anna and her conscience had a little tussle . |
| 29 | Peter had heard all this , sitting at the kitchen table with a cup of tea , and a sandwich made for him by Anna to sustain him to the far side of compline . |
| 30 | Janine was now sitting at the kitchen table smoking a cigarette . |