Example sentences of "sat at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she 'd finished he sat at the kitchen table , watching her getting his tea ready , brooding . |
| 2 | Now he sat at the kitchen table with the worm-cake before him and the taste of nausea already on his tongue . |
| 3 | They sat at the kitchen table sipping tea , waiting . |
| 4 | I sat at the kitchen table , staring at the blind white blankness in front of me , and slowly , like a clear spring welling up from the common earth , the poem rose and spread and filled me , unstoppable as flood water , technique unknotting even as it ran , like snags rolled away on the flood . |
| 5 | He sat at the kitchen table . |
| 6 | She spooned four heaped spoonfuls of sugar into it and some condensed milk and sat at the kitchen table . |
| 7 | Bleakly , he sat at the kitchen table eating spaghetti bolognaise out of a tin . |
| 8 | They sat at the kitchen table with the manuscript between them . |
| 9 | After making the tea she sat at the kitchen table to drink it , and was still sitting there when dawn broke . |
| 10 | She clambered over some boulders , sat at the water 's edge , and dribbled her aching , blistered feet through the water . |
| 11 | Finally they found a canvas and Modi seated Indenbaum at one end of the long narrow studio while he sat at the other . |
| 12 | She sat at the breakfast table , trying to calm her nerves , and eventually she drew the envelope from her housecoat pocket and opened it , reading the words that were written inside , and feeling the blood drain from her face . |
| 13 | She sat at the breakfast bar and lit herself a cigarette . |
| 14 | Evelyn and Dan sat at the breakfast bar . |
| 15 | Now she walked into the kitchen as Lizzy sat at the breakfast bar and threw the diary in front of her . |
| 16 | The mail arrived early and he opened his letters as he sat at the breakfast table . |
| 17 | For a long time she sat at the breakfast bar , gazing into space , searching for answers and finding none . |
| 18 | A woman walked in and sat at the middle of the counter — Maxim had chosen the furthest end . |
| 19 | Riven sat at the bow with his eyes in the dazzle of the water . |
| 20 | He sat at the head of the table and was served by kneeling courtiers such as might have attended a real prince . |
| 21 | Peg sat at the head of the table . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ We sat at the head table … . |
| 24 | At dinner in the evenings , she and Stephen sat at the head and foot of the long dining table , with his mother between them , ignoring Tamar and monopolising her son 's attention . |
| 25 | Dr John Foley sat at the head of the table , and looked at his five sons . |
| 26 | Lamprey , not noticeably ageing , sat at the head , his report spread out before him . |
| 27 | The president sat at the head of the long mahogany table . |
| 28 | Alice made coffee , set around the mugs , and sat at the head of the table . |
| 29 | Gerard the butler sat at the head of the table , facing Mrs James , the cook , while the two maids , Jane and Sarah , sat beside her . |
| 30 | 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 . |