Example sentences of "was sit at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Swear when he was sat at the top of the stairs shivering he looked so thin . |
| 2 | She was sitting at a table in the recreation room with her relatives round her . |
| 3 | He was sitting at a carefully chosen table with the magnificence of Princes Street stretching out through the window behind him . |
| 4 | She was sitting at a littered table with two noisy West Indians in colourful pullovers and a jaded , almost middle-aged fat lady with a fur coat . |
| 5 | Nell was sitting at a table with a fortyish couple who she later told me owned one of the horses in the box-car , a dark bay called Redi-Hot . |
| 6 | Sheridan Lorrimore , who was sitting at a table apart from his parents , demanded I bring him a double Scotch at once . |
| 7 | A few months later I was sitting at a table opposite three Foreign Office officials . |
| 8 | Mike Dawson was sitting at a dead computer , strumming the keyboard and offering a toothy smile to an invisible audience . |
| 9 | A man was sitting at a desk , typing , another stood by a filing cabinet . |
| 10 | Conway 's secretary , Marie , was sitting at a desk . |
| 11 | An old man with white hair was sitting at a table . |
| 12 | Five minutes later she was sitting at a small table at the back of the dining-room , hidden from but within full hearing of the noisy bar . |
| 13 | He was sitting at a corner table with an English girl called Rose Franklin . |
| 14 | Doctor Stevie was sitting at a table having an early lunch . |
| 15 | The photo had been taken indoors and in poor light : the boy was sitting at a table , his head resting on one hand , a candle flickering nearby . |
| 16 | The man he was looking for , a Greek , was sitting at a table outside a cafe , deep in conversation with three Arabs . |
| 17 | Mandy was sitting at a table with other staff , all of them laughing and having a wonderful time . |
| 18 | ‘ They sent me out to do a match report and while I was sitting at a desk typing it up , Captain Bob appeared in the office , attracted by the presence of television cameras . |
| 19 | Geoffrey himself was sitting at a small desk . |
| 20 | Unbeknown to him , Mr Bill Muirhead of Saatchi and Saatchi , one of Mr Major 's key strategists , was sitting at an adjacent table and heard every word . |
| 21 | He was sitting at an angle which allowed him to watch the door . |
| 22 | A man was sitting at an open window where he could watch the road . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . |
| 24 | She was sitting at the table with her chocolate cooling in the mug between her hands . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | When they reached their table , Clarissa carefully failed to notice who was sitting at the next one . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | A large bus was sitting at the curb , door open , engine throbbing . |
| 29 | One night Modi was sitting at the Rotonde with Rivera , Boris Savinkov , a revolutionary writer , and Max Voloshin , a poet . |
| 30 | He was sitting at the bench in the window , writing notes . |