Example sentences of "[pers pn] sat at the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ! |
| 2 | I SAT AT THE BAR of the Late Nite Lounge , watching the floor show . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I sat at the front of the coach , next to the driver . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She sat at the edge of the cockpit , curled her legs into the warm shelter of the jacket , then hunched down into the thick collar so that all I could see of her face was her enormous , moon-silvered and lemur-like eyes beneath the pale gleam of her short bright hair . |
| 8 | She sat at the foot of the bed , and appraised his muscular young body . |
| 9 | She sat at the front during seminars and posed questions to our tutor that were more like statements . |
| 10 | They suggested she sat at the front of the class , and her bright hand shot up to answer every question . |
| 11 | She sat at the table with a shrug , the green eyes troubled . |
| 12 | He grabbed her , reaching over to where she sat at the end of the sofa , turning her roughly by the arm so that she had to face him , had to look deep into his angry , ice-blue eyes . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She sat at the side of the room , white with fear . |
| 15 | They sat at the back of the plane . ’ |
| 16 | They sat at the edge of the patio where vines trailed a dusky scent . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | They sat at the table in the dining area to eat an absurdly early high tea . |
| 19 | He sat at the top of the stairs as the news sank in . |
| 20 | He sat at the head of the table and was served by kneeling courtiers such as might have attended a real prince . |
| 21 | He sat at the head of the table carefully scrutinising the document in front of him as if it were a religious text which he had to examine for scriptural errors . |
| 22 | He sat at the head of the table in his white shirt , beautifully washed by Giovanna , with a silk scarf knotted at the neck , looking handsome and quizzical as he drank Chianti and told the girls about his less lurid divorce cases and more eccentric clients . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He 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 . |
| 26 | He sat at the table at the upstairs window , as Montaine used to sit in her room in the smallholding , overlooking a view much like the one she loved over heathland towards the forest . |
| 27 | He sat at the end of Jitka 's bed , while she tried to lead her sisters in their song about St Wenceslas . |
| 28 | He sat at the side of the road and surveyed the sun-parched land before him . |