Example sentences of "he sit [prep] the head " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the quadrupling of the defence budget in 1950–55 , the president 's main source of power has come from the fact that he sits at the head of a great ‘ national security state ’ — to adopt the phrase of Daniel Patrick Moynihan , a Democratic senator . |
| 2 | He sat at the head of the table and was served by kneeling courtiers such as might have attended a real prince . |
| 3 | He sat at the head of the table carefully scrutinising the document in front of him as if it were a religious text which he had to examine for scriptural errors . |
| 4 | He sat at the head of the table in his white shirt , beautifully washed by Giovanna , with a silk scarf knotted at the neck , looking handsome and quizzical as he drank Chianti and told the girls about his less lurid divorce cases and more eccentric clients . |
| 5 | It flashed on me that it was also the smile that Conchis sometimes wore ; as if he sat before the head and practised it . |