Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] sit at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll sit at the back probably , in the back corner there . |
| 2 | No I 'll sit at the back . |
| 3 | I wish I could sit at the table and help cut up Annie 's food like I used to , and we 'd have crackers and we 'd wear those paper hats and have them little prezzies from inside the crackers . |
| 4 | Do you want to go and get your aeroplane , cos I can sit at the table and colour with one hand , and make aeroplanes with the other . |
| 5 | And you know yesterday she had the nerve to ask me if she could sit at the end of our table . |
| 6 | You 'd sit at the gate for ages in , in the hope that the road would be clear as well . |
| 7 | While he talked to a girl , she would sit at the bar and talk to the nearest man . |
| 8 | She had come to look forward to the intervals between tenants , for at such times she would sit at the bedroom window that overlooked the street , which sloped swiftly to the main thoroughfare ; and guided by the landmarks of St Dominic 's church and , beyond that , St Ann 's , she could look over the chimney pots and catch a glimpse of the river gleaming between the busy traffic on it . |
| 9 | She would sit at the piano and sing . |
| 10 | If you were lucky enough to be invited for * Eight at Number Eight' , you would sit at the dining table under the inscrutable gaze of Duncan Grant 's tabby-cat ; this cat was painted at Charleston during the First World War , and bought by the Berkeleys many years later for £75 from the Lefevre Gallery . |
| 11 | You can sit at the table and do them . |
| 12 | You kids can sit there and we 'll sit at the table . |
| 13 | his beard and everything to a T. He 'd sit at the top of the table , have his stiff white serviette tucked into his waistcoat , and he 's lifted that carving knife and fork until — you sat there and you never said a word . |
| 14 | Their king is Aillen mac Midha , and in the past he would sit at the foot of the Palace ramparts , slender and blue-green , and with the chill faery blood of all the sidh in his veins . |
| 15 | He would sit at the head of the long table , the various amounts were packed in white paper with the name of the recipient on each . |
| 16 | At that point in his life , he would sit at the door of a club when he was playing and he would glare at the people who came in . |
| 17 | During the session Sir John May , the inquiry chairman , announced that he would sit at the inquiry with three lay assessors , and that the government had agreed to the granting of immunity from prosecution to witnesses . |
| 18 | It would sit at the foot of the sick-bed and , if it gazed at the patient , its eyes would magically absorb the malaise so the man had a renewed chance of life . |
| 19 | No it would n't , ca n't , ca n't not at the ground level , it will sit at the top |