Example sentences of "[pron] sit at a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I write biographies , I sit at a large kitchen table with a wide surface on which books and papers can be laid , essential for checking quotations or references . |
| 2 | Bailey gives me instant coffee and a plate of Tesco jam doughnuts , still in their plastic packet , and we sit at a dusty picnic table outside , slapping off flies . |
| 3 | We sat at a special table and just told jokes about the Russians , the Americans , and ourselves . ’ |
| 4 | When you 're doing a melody like Rubina or Always With Me , Always With You they sit at a nice register , but the chorus , second verse of Cryin ’ is right up there , War is up there , Friends is up there . |
| 5 | They sat at a low bench hard against the wall . |
| 6 | They sat at a rickety table on the perimeter of the square , under the shade of an umbrella , sipping espresso , eating anisette biscuits , and watching the large , colourful crowd . |
| 7 | They sat at a small table by the window . |
| 8 | They sat at a circular wrought iron table shaded by a willow . |
| 9 | ‘ But I think it is a pointless exercise , ’ said Floy , somewhere towards morning , a thin , cold light filtering in through the windows to where he sat at a great desk , his black hair tumbled , hollows in his cheeks , his face white with fatigue . |
| 10 | He sat at a makeshift desk of unfinished lumber , and wrote and played with his thinning hair . |
| 11 | He sat at a large desk covered with papers , journals , medical books , a portable typewriter pushed to one end . |