Example sentences of "[pron] was sit at the " in BNC.

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1 I was sitting at the back of the 17th green at the Scottish Open this year watching the action .
2 Someone was sitting at the stone chess table .
3 She was sitting at the table with her chocolate cooling in the mug between her hands .
4 She was sitting at the mirror in her room , having excused herself from her cousins ' chatter minutes before .
5 When he entered , she was sitting at the big table .
6 She was sitting at the table , her fingers clasped beneath her chin .
7 And er very straight-faced in fact , and she was sitting at the back of the room , and I , I 'd just said to everybody , I said nobody here 's got a life purchased annuity , have they ?
8 She was sitting at the table with her back to me as I approached , concentrating on something in her hand .
9 When they reached their table , Clarissa carefully failed to notice who was sitting at the next one .
10 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 .
11 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 " .
12 The fourth , who was sitting at the other , is now standing .
13 ‘ 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 He was sitting at the bench in the window , writing notes .
17 So he was sitting at the kitchen table eating his plate of beans when Donald walked in .
18 He was sitting at the table and staring ahead of him with a dark , brooding expression .
19 She threw her arms around Piers where he was sitting at the breakfast table , and nipped his neck with her teeth .
20 Swear when he was sat at the top of the stairs shivering he looked so thin .
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