Example sentences of "[pron] sit at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like a host in some cheerful tavern , he told them to tether their horses and ushered them in , asking them to sit at the table and wait while he finished his business in his own secret chamber . |
| 2 | Before I go to the supermarket , I usually stop off for a drink ; I sit at the bar and watch the real world go by . |
| 3 | In any case , I sit at the stall during daytime . ’ |
| 4 | The next problem was how to deliver it , since I sat at the back in English ( our next lesson ) and Belinda sat at the front — which was how I knew that her hair touched her chair ! |
| 5 | A lovely lady , Molly Braithwaite , came to teach , and one day as I sat at the back I felt ‘ Surely I could do a little of that gently swinging ’ , picked up a club , and was off ‘ moving with the Medau ’ . |
| 6 | I sat at the kitchen table , staring at the blind white blankness in front of me , and slowly , like a clear spring welling up from the common earth , the poem rose and spread and filled me , unstoppable as flood water , technique unknotting even as it ran , like snags rolled away on the flood . |
| 7 | I SAT AT THE BAR of the Late Nite Lounge , watching the floor show . |
| 8 | Back in my room , I sat at the desk and considered . |
| 9 | About 8 p.m. that evening Taff and I sat at the side of our slit trench eating what I thought was a rather dubious lump of meat . |
| 10 | I sat at the front of the coach , next to the driver . |
| 11 | At dinner the two cholerics carried on a huddled conversation while I sat at the end of the row feeling the cutlery might melt in my hands . |
| 12 | In any case it would be better if I sat at the table , the light was better there and I should not get lazy . |
| 13 | I sat at the table we used to use and tried to think what I really believed . |
| 14 | Bogle himself sits at the desk by the door and takes the money . |
| 15 | Spenser throughout the book , and indeed throughout the poem , makes a number of equations which sit at the centre of his ideology . |
| 16 | One example of an organism possessed of such a rather basic nervous system is the tiny , pond-living hydra ( Fig 7.3 ) , which sits at the bottom of ponds and streams attached to rocks or water plants and waving its tentacles above its mouth . |
| 17 | He also threatened to call in the receiver to Mr Bond 's master corporation and to his private family company , Dallhold Investments — the firm which sits at the top of the whole debt-laden business structure . |
| 18 | In a classroom it can give you the students ' view of the teacher , it can give you the teacher 's view of the students or it can be an observer which sits at the side of the class and looks from one to the other . |
| 19 | If you sit at the back of a lecture hall , you 'll get less out of it than if you sit up front . |
| 20 | That 's cos you sit at the end . |
| 21 | She sits at the marriage banquet , apparently in a cafe , and the harlequin has just presented her with a bouquet . |
| 22 | She sits at the table and smiles , asking firmly for a solo-brandy and coke in separate glasses . |
| 23 | was she sat at the bottom you know |
| 24 | ‘ Well , you come , ’ said Sophia , ‘ and last Sunday I noticed the man who lives opposite you sitting at the back . ’ |
| 25 | He stood in the damp boots that leaked the snow wet to his socks , and he hated the man who sat at the desk . |
| 26 | Foxe describes how ‘ Master Tyndale , a man of no great stature ’ , was courteously persuaded to walk ahead , whilst the tall and comely Philips behind him pointed over his head ‘ so that the officers who sat at the door might see that it was he whom they should take ; as the officers that took Master Tyndale afterwards told Poyntz , they pitied to see his simplicity when they took him . ’ |
| 27 | The person who sat at the side of the Secretary of State was the regional officer from Leeds . |
| 28 | I am also the woman who sat at the crossroads . |
| 29 | Brushing her hair back , she sat at the desk , trying to force her thoughts back into some semblance of order . |
| 30 | With a brief wave Lindsey hurried along the corridor towards the consulting-room , where she sat at the desk , taking several deep breaths to compose herself before calling for her first patient . |