Example sentences of "sat at his " in BNC.
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| 1 | He sat at his work ad I could see him . |
| 2 | The film ended as poor Eddie met his Maker in a way unmemorable except in visual terms : he sat at his piano becoming lighter and lighter in tone . |
| 3 | Mr Kaufman , Labour 's chief foreign affairs spokesman , sat at his bench shaking his head . |
| 4 | It was because I sat at his feet with my blouse undone . ’ |
| 5 | Occasionally he 'd become calm and , during those times , sat at his console and worked furiously , his face tense in the flickering fireflies of scrolling information . |
| 6 | He sat at his desk , huddled in his great cloak , oblivious to the cold draughts which came under the door or through the cracks in the wooden shutters on the window . |
| 7 | In his office high up in the twenty-five storey building that is 550 Fashion Avenue , mecca of the New York fashion industry , Hugo Varna sat at his desk and fiddled with the executive toy Sally had bought for him last Christmas . |
| 8 | For Jack , time seemed to stand still as he sat at his stepfather 's bedside , gazing down into the inanimate features and waiting for a miracle . |
| 9 | So through that dismal day Hugh Templar sat at his kitchen table and pursued the adventures of a team of space-travellers who had discovered a world directly behind the sun , which was a mirror-image of our own Earth , with the same physical composition , but with a rather different kind of population , a race having strange and , I hoped , thought-provoking ideas about how to run their planet … |
| 10 | General Vashinov , now fully uniformed , sat at his desk . |
| 11 | ‘ I want your money ’ , he roared , while his wife brought him piles of paper and the children sat at his feet counting money into a piggy bank . |
| 12 | Because he sat at his desk from early morning until night he was not getting around to see what was happening among the ordinary people : and many of his henchmen were using their positions of power for personal or family advantage . |
| 13 | sat at his feet by the coal fire as he drank |
| 14 | He sat at his desk writing , and I almost groaned aloud as I thought : Oh God , no , not another one ! |
| 15 | Adam sat at his usual lunchtime table in the Savoy Grill the one discreetly opposite the main entrance , so that without seeming to do so , he saw everyone who entered the restaurant . |
| 16 | She sat at his bedside and was silent for a time , letting him watch her . |
| 17 | Evening after evening Father McGiff sat at his desk , ashamed of his indulgence , upbraiding himself for his inability to drag his eyes away from the window which , like some perverse crystal ball , conjured up only ghosts of the past instead of promises of the future . |
| 18 | Father McGiff turned from the window and wearily sat at his desk . |
| 19 | Carl Mathers sat at his desk , a telephone on his lap , a small screwdriver in one hand . |
| 20 | Jean Vilbrun Guillaume Sam sat at his desk , head in hands , apparently oblivious to the events outside . |
| 21 | Scott returned to his office and sat at his desk , glancing at the phone , wondering if he should try calling Carol 's flat again . |
| 22 | Tolonen sat at his daughter 's bedside , his eyes brimming with tears . |
| 23 | DeVore sat at his desk in the tiny room at the heart of the mountain . |
| 24 | The only source of colour was a multi-hued venetian blind , in front of which Golding sat at his desk , with a female officer beside him . |
| 25 | Oh God , have I forgotten how poor old Eddy sat at his desk in Hand and Ball Court on the last day of his life , talking about those past times which were most important to him , and how nobody took any notice ? |
| 26 | His daughter Amanda sat at his bedside in stiff , pout-lipped profile , reading some piece of religious mumbo-jumbo . |
| 27 | Her uncle sat at his workbench looking vague , as though he 'd forgotten why he was there . |
| 28 | She thought fleetingly of the weapon he might have picked up to strike her over the head as she sat at his mercy . |
| 29 | Usually he just sat at his desk and waited quietly for four o'clock to come , when he could go home . |
| 30 | He sat at his desk , reading reports but not taking in what he read . |