Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] sit at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After making the tea she sat at the kitchen table to drink it , and was still sitting there when dawn broke . |
| 2 | The person who sat at the side of the Secretary of State was the regional officer from Leeds . |
| 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 | In a classroom it can give you the students ' view of the teacher , it can give you the teacher 's view of the students or it can be an observer which sits at the side of the class and looks from one to the other . |
| 5 | I am also the woman who sat at the crossroads . |
| 6 | Spenser throughout the book , and indeed throughout the poem , makes a number of equations which sit at the centre of his ideology . |
| 7 | He also threatened to call in the receiver to Mr Bond 's master corporation and to his private family company , Dallhold Investments — the firm which sits at the top of the whole debt-laden business structure . |
| 8 | He stood in the damp boots that leaked the snow wet to his socks , and he hated the man who sat at the desk . |
| 9 | No doubt they sit at the table , plotting and planning , making arrangements . |
| 10 | Cranston had already dismissed the poem , but when he read the indenture he sat at the foot of the bed stupefied , the parchment held loosely between his fingers . |
| 11 | For a few moments he sat at the receiver , listening to the hollow hum of vacant ether , recovering . |
| 12 | For a long time she sat at the breakfast bar , gazing into space , searching for answers and finding none . |