Example sentences of "who sat at " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was the black coffin with its silvered ornaments and the mourner who sat at its head this time was a widowed husband ! |
| 2 | Only two men and a woman , who sat at a centre table , were not at work , though the woman had a piece of sewing in her hands . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | They possessed a faint whiff of humour , those men who sat at the ankles of Iosif . |
| 5 | He stood in the damp boots that leaked the snow wet to his socks , and he hated the man who sat at the desk . |
| 6 | " In that case I 'll accompany you , " he said abruptly , and offered her his arm like the gentleman he wanted to be , so that the women and old men who sat at their doorways in West Street stared in amazement at the unprecedented sight of Harry Pascoe on an errand of mercy with his wife . |
| 7 | I am also the woman who sat at the crossroads . |
| 8 | What Katherine found daunting was the ambience within : the large unsmiling woman who sat at a table in the entrance hall and stiffly handed her two sheets of paper , one with a map of the school which showed her own room clearly marked , the other with a long list of instructions printed in four languages , French , German , Italian and English ; a smell which mingled disinfectant and scouring soap ; the difference in temperature between the stifling main body of the school and the chill of the outlying wing where she found her room . |
| 9 | The only sounds in the room were the scratching of his pen-nib as he made each entry , and the chink of coins as he counted them out of the cash box — and the heavy breathing of Marcus Judge , who sat at the other side of the desk , his eyes fixed upon his son . |
| 10 | They passed from her to Louis , who sat at the other end of the sofa reading Le Figaro . |
| 11 | The bar had just opened and the only customer was Ernie Passmore , who sat at one of the tables , a huge , freckled hand clasping a pint glass . |
| 12 | The person who sat at the side of the Secretary of State was the regional officer from Leeds . |
| 13 | The rest of the place was empty except for Devlin who sat at a table against the far wall reading a small book , a glass of beer at his hand . |