Example sentences of "had [be] sitting at " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been sitting at a table in the corner reading an Italian newspaper and Sandison had hardly paid him any attention . |
| 2 | ‘ If we had been sitting at the bottom I could accept my fate , but we are seventh and have lost only one of the last eight games . ’ |
| 3 | They had been sitting at home ( unheated , before Anna put in the plumbing and the armchairs ) with cousins and priests coming to black coffee now and then while the prince was out on his horse or at the club . |
| 4 | Adele Venetz , the sister that Wayne always thought of as the quiet one , had been sitting at the big rolling-out table as he 'd entered the restaurant kitchen . |
| 5 | I had been sitting at the table housed in the living room bay window , trying to write a paper for a tutorial the next day , but Gavin and Janice had chosen to punctuate their highly audible coupling sessions ( in what the more tenacious core-areas of my long-term memory still sporadically insisted had once been my bedroom ) with an almost equally noisy episode of tortilla chip eating . |
| 6 | They were all three at the table where they had been sitting at a meal , the curry soup before them , a dreadful static group , posed as for a stage set . |
| 7 | Peter had been sitting at the table on which there was a mug of tea and a brightly coloured magazine . |
| 8 | Does the right hon. Gentleman really believe that if politicians in Northern Ireland had been sitting at a table , the awful atrocities that we have witnessed in the past few days would not have taken place ? |
| 9 | He wished that he could have listened to their conversation , but he would not have made much of it if he had been sitting at the next table . |
| 10 | His father had been working on the farm and he had been sitting at the door of the hut . |