Example sentences of "be sitting at " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ WHEN YOU do comedy you 're not sitting at the grown-ups ’ table , you 're sitting at the children 's table . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ We wo n't find anyone while we 're sitting at desks . ’ |
| 3 | ( They 're sitting at the corner of a teashop table , say . ) |
| 4 | It would be sitting at the pictures if I could have the money to do it fill time . |
| 5 | The talk would take in all the great political and aesthetic themes : Jean-Paul Sartre would join in , for he would be sitting at the next table : together , artists and intellectuals would conquer life 's essential absurdity ; and from such discussions tomorrow 's painting would be born . |
| 6 | Perhaps he 'll be sitting at home in Brighton next month not remembering a thing about it , perhaps in a year or two Sony or Akai will be marketing a small black box the size of a cigarette packet that cuts and scratches at the touch of a button . |
| 7 | Other times I think , ‘ What am I doing this for , I could be sitting at home with my feet up . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 'll be sitting at the back and I do n't want anybody showing up the firm , asking questions , telling tales , you get my meaning ? ’ |
| 9 | Stella I 've mentioned ; Stella I was her full title , she would be sitting at the bar , and then later , Stella II would be sitting there beside her . |
| 10 | Mrs. McKenzie , whose mother was also a member of Grayshott Good Companions , will be very sorry to leave the Thursday afternoon friends she has known for so long — but she will not be sitting at home alone as she is going to Grayshott 's weekly day centre . |
| 11 | I would be sitting at home , and suddenly the telephone would go : ‘ You mother-fucking crook , you 've sent lots of pictures abroad . |
| 12 | You will not be sitting at your desk , while the children are getting on somehow . |
| 13 | He has described how everyone present would be sitting at the bar or a small table , sipping drinks and engaged in quiet conversation . |
| 14 | Donna looked at him again , wondering why she felt so guilty to be sitting at the table with this man . |
| 15 | She 'd be sitting at home waiting for this bloody man , who at best thought she was some kind of alien , and at worst , stark , staring mad . |
| 16 | He seemed to be sitting at his own centre , in the innermost room of his heart , as he heard the words . |
| 17 | Were it to do so , literally hundreds of thousands of people would tonight not be sitting at home frightened about whether they might be dragged into the courts and on to prison . |
| 18 | We 've got Gerry Addams who er wanted earlier in the week if we were to believe what seemed now like to be sitting at a table discussing peace , there he is carrying a bomber 's coffin . |
| 19 | He gets old before his time , soon soon he 'll be sitting at home with a |
| 20 | Tonight I 'm sitting at the same table |
| 21 | I 'm sitting at the back |
| 22 | the very fact that I 'm sitting at university , |
| 23 | Who would think from the urbanity of this week 's column that I am sitting at my keyboard shivering , sniffing , coughing and streaming like a tubercular poet of the 1890s ? |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | We get £28 a week whether we are sitting at a machine all day or operating heavy presses . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | He steers himself into the current of warm air rising above the chandelier , and is carried effortlessly upwards , past floors where people are sitting at little tables and eating ice-cream out of metal goblets . |
| 29 | I refer to people who , as I speak , are sitting at home , unable to put on their electric fires . |
| 30 | 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 |