Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] sit at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a brief wave Lindsey hurried along the corridor towards the consulting-room , where she sat at the desk , taking several deep breaths to compose herself before calling for her first patient . |
| 2 | For example the owner of a motor vehicle can be said to use it where he sits at the side of the driver , who is not his employee and the vehicle is being used for his purpose ( Cobb v Williams [ 1973 ] RTR 1 13 ) . |
| 3 | My Pete said , my Pete said do you mind that we sat at the table , I said yeah , that 's , that 's , that 's a |
| 4 | Since the quadrupling of the defence budget in 1950–55 , the president 's main source of power has come from the fact that he sits at the head of a great ‘ national security state ’ — to adopt the phrase of Daniel Patrick Moynihan , a Democratic senator . |
| 5 | We can infer that George was in a restaurant , and that he sat at a table and looked at a menu . |
| 6 | Gordon and I sit at a table as the old snowys sup their milk stouts and get ready to cross the road to the theatre , where several stars of television are about to perform the fabulous musical My Fair Lady . |
| 7 | About 8 p.m. that evening Taff and I sat at the side of our slit trench eating what I thought was a rather dubious lump of meat . |
| 8 | In any case it would be better if I sat at the table , the light was better there and I should not get lazy . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | If you sit at the back of a lecture hall , you 'll get less out of it than if you sit up front . |
| 11 | That 's cos you sit at the end . |
| 12 | After breakfast at the palace all the inmates are thrown out , whatever the weather , and the only place he can take his child is outside : " Usually I take my little boy at weekends to the fair at Whitley Bay , or I take him on the metro and we sit at the front — he loves trains . |
| 13 | They had cups of sweet milky tea and they sat at a table . |
| 14 | Inside the bar they descended again into the dining alcove , and they sat at a table by a small-paned window which was back on a level with the path outside . |
| 15 | A quiet woman in a large white apron brought them cold white wine in a red earthenware jug , and they sat at the edge of the patio looking out at the rows of vines , of lemon trees , tomatoes and capsicums that straggled down the hillside , shaded in places by tall cypresses and stunted white-trunked olive trees . |
| 16 | At that time of year there were few people about and he sat at a table by himself . |
| 17 | The lights went down and he sat at the back , trying to gauge the reaction of a packed audience . |
| 18 | If it sits at the bottom of your belly , glowering like a smouldering fire , threatening to explode suddenly at any time and paralyse you ? |
| 19 | At dinner the two cholerics carried on a huddled conversation while I sat at the end of the row feeling the cutlery might melt in my hands . |
| 20 | The next problem was how to deliver it , since I sat at the back in English ( our next lesson ) and Belinda sat at the front — which was how I knew that her hair touched her chair ! |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Finally they found a canvas and Modi seated Indenbaum at one end of the long narrow studio while he sat at the other . |
| 23 | A lovely lady , Molly Braithwaite , came to teach , and one day as I sat at the back I felt ‘ Surely I could do a little of that gently swinging ’ , picked up a club , and was off ‘ moving with the Medau ’ . |
| 24 | When he had left Merrill breathed a sigh of relief , but as she sat at the dressing-table removing her make-up something inside her wept . |
| 25 | Well , that makes two of us , Hilary thought with a little smile as she sat at the table . |
| 26 | The words stuck in Folly 's mind , coming back to her next morning as she sat at the Rose Bowl 's work-table , preparing roses for conditioning by crushing the tips of their stems with a heavy mallet . |
| 27 | As we sat at the loch eating a cold lunch , deciding who could first pin the blame on the other for messing up the day , we heard voices from the cliffs surrounding the lochan . |
| 28 | Between national curriculum levels and general skills and abilities as it sits at the moment ? |
| 29 | Very loudly ( ad for some time before ) , a tailor had been singing as he sat at a window in a comer of the yard . |
| 30 | The prince was visibly moved by the bravery of Bronwen Vickers , 33 , a mother of two , from Knutsford , Cheshire , as he sat at the foot of her bed at Warrington General Hospital . |