Example sentences of "[adv] sit [adv prt] at the " in BNC.

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1 Guests are often late and rarely sit down at the table on time .
2 She could almost imagine the door opening and Isabelle coming in to sit down at the dressing-table with its pretty antique tortoiseshell and silver toilet set , humming softly as she loved to do .
3 ‘ It 's much simpler just draping a piece of material round you to work out what shape would work best and then just sitting down at the sewing machine ! ’
4 ‘ It 's much simpler just draping a piece of material round you to work out what shape would work best and then just sitting down at the sewing machine ! ’
5 If one did not sit down at the table there would be a gap , an empty space that would spoil the symmetry of the host 's table .
6 But he said nothing , just sat down at the table , a pale-faced , freckled child , his school tie knotted to one side , and catching part of his collar .
7 ‘ It 's all cold , ’ she complains , then two minutes later she 's back eating it like she just sat down at the table .
8 He usually sits up at the window .
9 Well sit back at the table please .
10 Please sit down at the table .
11 Write about one main incident or object ( Chekhov said you could select anything you saw and write about it , but do n't sit down at the typewriter before the idea has gelled in your mind .
12 He poured the tea into a mug , added milk and sugar , then sat down at the table and began to eat and drink .
13 She hesitated and then sat down at the far end of one where a lone man was wholly immersed in a newspaper .
14 Carol gave him his tea then sat down at the table next to Plummer , who carried on eating .
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