Example sentences of "was sit at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Swear when he was sat at the top of the stairs shivering he looked so thin . |
| 2 | ‘ We ca n't work out how he could have killed his wife while he was sitting at the opposite end of the table , ’ said Constable Bewman näively . |
| 3 | She was sitting at the table with her chocolate cooling in the mug between her hands . |
| 4 | He derived some comfort from Rajiv 's habitual elegance ; wearing a suit , shirt and tie that must have cost two months of his salary as an Assistant Under-Secretary of State , he was sitting at the other side of the large , uncompromising desk that the Department provides for its most senior officials , not a hair out of place and his black eyes alive with amusement . |
| 5 | When they reached their table , Clarissa carefully failed to notice who was sitting at the next one . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A large bus was sitting at the curb , door open , engine throbbing . |
| 8 | One night Modi was sitting at the Rotonde with Rivera , Boris Savinkov , a revolutionary writer , and Max Voloshin , a poet . |
| 9 | He was sitting at the bench in the window , writing notes . |
| 10 | Her father , a hale old man over seventy , with a fresh colour and benignant expression , was sitting at the table finishing his meal . |
| 11 | At the very last minute Nessie handed the pig bucket to Tim , who was sitting at the back with Kevin and the children ready to jump off at the road end . |
| 12 | Sergeant Hanafin was sitting at the table with Peg O'Malley . |
| 13 | Sonny was sitting at the table with his mother . |
| 14 | The teacher was sitting at the pastry table with several children . |
| 15 | The Conductor , in his grey suit with gold bars of long service on his left sleeve , was sitting at the first table past the kitchen , finishing his lunch . |
| 16 | Someone was sitting at the stone chess table . |
| 17 | So he was sitting at the kitchen table eating his plate of beans when Donald walked in . |
| 18 | Yvonne was sitting at the table with a cheroot and a tall glass of wine . |
| 19 | I was sitting at the back of the 17th green at the Scottish Open this year watching the action . |
| 20 | Tom was sitting at the table , glueing coloured paper chains together . |
| 21 | Nellie was sitting at the bedside . |
| 22 | At the end of the reading there was some consternation but Eliot , who was sitting at the back of the room , was heard to mutter , " It 's a good poem , it 's a very good poem " . |
| 23 | She was sitting at the mirror in her room , having excused herself from her cousins ' chatter minutes before . |
| 24 | Uncle Albert was sitting at the table , with a cup of tea , head buried in the newspaper . |
| 25 | When he entered , she was sitting at the big table . |
| 26 | Will was sitting at the table , and looked pleased to see me . |
| 27 | Erm my mother , we were a little bit better off than they were and er I remember going to a child with my mother , to see what would be my aunt you see and uncle , and the only time I ever remember seeing my aunt with eleven children was sitting at the corner of a table with a sort of a coarse apron on and just sitting there and I never saw her doing anything . |
| 28 | Farrell was sitting at the table in the room , thumbing 9mm bullets into two magazines for the UZI . |
| 29 | When she came downstairs Betty was sitting at the table . |
| 30 | She walked into the kitchen and Phil was sitting at the table . |