Example sentences of "sit at the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The three of them , she recalled , would often sit at the balcony of the little pavilion and watch the confident arrival of the night . |
| 2 | It would sit at the foot of the sick-bed and , if it gazed at the patient , its eyes would magically absorb the malaise so the man had a renewed chance of life . |
| 3 | Today I asked him to bind me and gag me and let me sit at the foot of the cellar steps with the door out open . |
| 4 | Their king is Aillen mac Midha , and in the past he would sit at the foot of the Palace ramparts , slender and blue-green , and with the chill faery blood of all the sidh in his veins . |
| 5 | Woosnam will not sit at the head of the table but , as the newest member , at the end of a sprig . |
| 6 | He would sit at the head of the long table , the various amounts were packed in white paper with the name of the recipient on each . |
| 7 | How can he now ever sit at the head of the Church , representing morality and the essential values of love within marriage and devotion to family life ? |
| 8 | At that point in his life , he would sit at the door of a club when he was playing and he would glare at the people who came in . |
| 9 | ( 1 ) A smaller , more rapidly tumbling bar may sit at the core of the kiloparsec-scale bar discussed above . |
| 10 | ‘ In the end we asked them to come and sit at the back of the stage , ’ Miss Picon recalled . |
| 11 | When young she admired Victoria de los Angeles and Jusi Bjoerling , but found their singing so moving that ‘ I 'd start to weep , the body can hardly stand it ’ , and so would sit at the back of the hall . |
| 12 | his beard and everything to a T. He 'd sit at the top of the table , have his stiff white serviette tucked into his waistcoat , and he 's lifted that carving knife and fork until — you sat there and you never said a word . |
| 13 | It should follow the command ‘ heel ’ without difficulty , and will also sit at the side of a road before being told to cross . |
| 14 | An audience can only sit at the front of the stage and the hall stretches back for miles . |
| 15 | At this moment the actual tests which pupils will sit at the end of the key stage are in the process of design . |
| 16 | And you know yesterday she had the nerve to ask me if she could sit at the end of our table . |