Example sentences of "she sit at " in BNC.
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| 1 | She sits at the marriage banquet , apparently in a cafe , and the harlequin has just presented her with a bouquet . |
| 2 | She sits at the table and smiles , asking firmly for a solo-brandy and coke in separate glasses . |
| 3 | She sits at her dressing-table and vigorously brushes her hair , a mop of copper-coloured curls , natural curls , as tight and springy as coiled steel . |
| 4 | I go out and tend to the suffering populace and she sits at home and patronizes me . |
| 5 | She sits at a tea table with MR . |
| 6 | was she sat at the bottom you know |
| 7 | There she was , ably supported by active and intelligent people while she sat at home feeling cold and tired and guilty . |
| 8 | Then she sat at the big table with only a pot of tea for herself while Frankie and his father cleared their plates in silence . |
| 9 | She sat at her ease on the sofa , with her long , booted and pantalooned legs crossed at the ankles , but the expression on her face was bored and haughty . |
| 10 | She sat at her desk as usual , her face illuminated by the cheap reading light beside her . |
| 11 | Philippa had taken her black kerchief off and twisted it around her fingers as she sat at Lee 's feet . |
| 12 | Every lunchtime she watched her three male partners in Exeter-based accountancy firm Honey Perriam disappear out of the door and up the road to the local snooker club , while she sat at her desk , nibbling her sandwich . |
| 13 | She sat at the edge of the cockpit , curled her legs into the warm shelter of the jacket , then hunched down into the thick collar so that all I could see of her face was her enormous , moon-silvered and lemur-like eyes beneath the pale gleam of her short bright hair . |
| 14 | She sat at the breakfast table , trying to calm her nerves , and eventually she drew the envelope from her housecoat pocket and opened it , reading the words that were written inside , and feeling the blood drain from her face . |
| 15 | She sat at the table with a shrug , the green eyes troubled . |
| 16 | She sat at the feet of Wyatt . |
| 17 | She sat at the table and painstakingly wrote down the sums of money that should have come in for the work already done . |
| 18 | She sat at the window , looking out on the gardens , not wanting to be reminded of her ordeal as her two companions searched for any clues that might have been left . |
| 19 | She sat at her desk , crossed her shapely legs , rested her hands in her lap and listened . |
| 20 | She sat at the table , picked up one of the pens , and began work . |
| 21 | She sat at the table and counted what she had left . |
| 22 | She did n't know how long she sat at the table , letting her coffee go cold . |
| 23 | She sat at the breakfast bar and lit herself a cigarette . |
| 24 | So thought Liz Headleand , as she sat at her dressing-table , in her yellow-walled , her yellow marble-veined dressing-room , eating nuts . |
| 25 | Afraid that at any moment someone would shout ‘ Grab her ! ’ and drag her off to some unspecified yet ineluctable torment , she forced herself at least to look calm while she sat at the console on the dais . |
| 26 | That first night when she was ready for bed , the maid dismissed , she sat at the dressing=table , moments , adjusting the lace jabot of her wrap . |
| 27 | Then she sat at the roll-top desk with the magazine in front of her , took a deep breath and lifted the receiver off its hook . |
| 28 | She sat at the foot of the bed , and appraised his muscular young body . |
| 29 | She sat at the front during seminars and posed questions to our tutor that were more like statements . |
| 30 | The farm workers took their seats , and she sat at the top of the table , so that she was with them , but a little apart . |