Example sentences of "[pron] be sit at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And now , on a clear morning , Graham Little and I are sitting at the bottom of the wall , fit and ready to go , and the wall is plastered with verglas . |
| 2 | I expect Hamish will be writing again pretty soon again too , but here I am sitting at the computer anyway , putting off writing a series of begging letters to friends and connections in various educational and other institutions and organizations asking them to submit to Chambers Harrap ( as we now are ) all partable-with unpublished bumf ( memos , minutes , notices , reports , etc , etc ) to swell the ‘ ephemera ’ ( new stretched meaning ) content of the British National Corpus of English . |
| 3 | Tonight I 'm sitting at the same table |
| 4 | I 'm sitting at the back |
| 5 | I was sitting at the back of the 17th green at the Scottish Open this year watching the action . |
| 6 | Someone was sitting at the stone chess table . |
| 7 | Kitchens Of Distinction are currently seated in Katz 's famous delicatessen in New York and , before them , taped proudly to a napkin dispenser , is an understated , handwritten sign that says : FOR YOUR INFORMATION , YOU ARE SITTING AT THE WHEN HARRY MET SALLY TABLE . |
| 8 | ‘ WHEN YOU do comedy you 're not sitting at the grown-ups ’ table , you 're sitting at the children 's table . ’ |
| 9 | Having finished her spot , the soprano left the stage and rejoined her husband and the Concert Secretary who were sitting at the next table . |
| 10 | ‘ Has anyone seen Christine or Robert King ? ’ she asked , turning to the others who were sitting at the back of the hall . |
| 11 | The only occupants of the room were a couple of young men who were sitting at the table , smoking Turkish cigarettes . |
| 12 | Erm , what happens of course , is th that the lecture is brilliantly delivered , er , but , but , what happens is he , the chauffeur finishes two minutes early and the chairman , being excellent as a Chairperson , actually says , we have time for just one question , and er , someone stands up and asks the most dreadful question from the audience , and er , the chauffeur listens to the question , thinks , and th then says , that 's questions very easy , very easy indeed , that question is so easy , I 'm going to ask my chauffeur who is sitting at the back of the room |
| 13 | She was sitting at the table with her chocolate cooling in the mug between her hands . |
| 14 | She was sitting at the mirror in her room , having excused herself from her cousins ' chatter minutes before . |
| 15 | When he entered , she was sitting at the big table . |
| 16 | She was sitting at the table , her fingers clasped beneath her chin . |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | She was sitting at the table with her back to me as I approached , concentrating on something in her hand . |
| 19 | When they reached their table , Clarissa carefully failed to notice who was sitting at the next one . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 " . |
| 22 | The fourth , who was sitting at the other , is now standing . |
| 23 | And that would be , that would be , so if we 're doing it this way , right , let's let's erm , forget about where we are sitting at the moment now , and just look we 're in a helicopter looking at these ships now , so this one radios you in the helicopter and says , that ship S is on a bearing of forty five degrees |
| 24 | ( They 're sitting at the corner of a teashop table , say . ) |
| 25 | But when they were sitting at the oval table in the dining-room , eating Mrs Purry 's admirable steak and kidney pudding and drinking a full-bodied Burgundy , Penelope found herself next to Rupert , who talked very pleasantly about Italy , remembering that Penelope was shortly to visit Rome with the parish party , and told her of things she ought to see and restaurants where she might eat . |
| 26 | One evening , when the two of them were sitting at the Rotonde , Beatrice , ‘ the lady of Montmartre ’ , entered with a handsome escort . |
| 27 | He dreams he is sitting at the wheel of his car at the traffic lights , unable to drive off because he ca n't decide whether to kiss Rose when he arrives , or whether to ask her for a cheese and chutney sandwich instead , or where to go for his holidays . |
| 28 | He is sitting at the top of the stairs , sobbing . |
| 29 | He 's sitting at the gate , watching the school around the corner decant its little boys . |
| 30 | ‘ 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 . |