Example sentences of "[pron] sat at a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sat at a table in the window and drank a filtre . |
| 2 | Only two men and a woman , who sat at a centre table , were not at work , though the woman had a piece of sewing in her hands . |
| 3 | What Katherine found daunting was the ambience within : the large unsmiling woman who sat at a table in the entrance hall and stiffly handed her two sheets of paper , one with a map of the school which showed her own room clearly marked , the other with a long list of instructions printed in four languages , French , German , Italian and English ; a smell which mingled disinfectant and scouring soap ; the difference in temperature between the stifling main body of the school and the chill of the outlying wing where she found her room . |
| 4 | The rest of the place was empty except for Devlin who sat at a table against the far wall reading a small book , a glass of beer at his hand . |
| 5 | She sat at a table while he went to get their lager and ploughman 's lunches . |
| 6 | They sat at a window table in the cafe looking out , watching every car that passed . |
| 7 | They sat at a table in the corner of the restaurant . |
| 8 | They had cups of sweet milky tea and they sat at a table . |
| 9 | They sat at a table covered with a checked tablecloth and tiles clicked underfoot ( Mummy brought back the tiles from Spain ) , and there was a big , brick fireplace with horse-brasses and copper pans and the boiler in the middle for the central heating , where there should have been a huge fire . |
| 10 | Inside the bar they descended again into the dining alcove , and they sat at a table by a small-paned window which was back on a level with the path outside . |
| 11 | They sat at a table in front of her , and talked quietly . |
| 12 | They sat at a table and looked down at the lights of the shipping in the Tagus . |
| 13 | They sat at a corner table , a slab of mahogany on an iron base that had once belonged to a Singer sewing machine . |
| 14 | Very loudly ( ad for some time before ) , a tailor had been singing as he sat at a window in a comer of the yard . |
| 15 | At that time of year there were few people about and he sat at a table by himself . |
| 16 | We can infer that George was in a restaurant , and that he sat at a table and looked at a menu . |