Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] sit at [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It is the only tram in service where you have to climb up to your seat and sit at an angle of 20 degrees behind two spacemen in the front compartment !
2 Hari made tea and sat at the table , her hands curled around the warmth of the cup .
3 I sat by the fire and read the file twice , then I went back into the kitchen , made myself some more tea and a chicken sandwich and sat at the table , eating the sandwich and thinking about things .
4 Greg went out on the course with Laura about 11 PM and sat at the bleachers on the 18th with a bottle of champagne while he went over his round again .
5 He comes to the bar and sits at the table there by the tree . ’
6 It is a relief to me to take up this pen and sit at a table and endeavour to sort out what I feel pressing in upon me and to know that if sense can be made of it you will make it .
7 It may look good when you are standing , but if you reveal acres of thigh when sitting at a business meeting , you 'll never be taken seriously .
8 It may look good when you are standing , but if you reveal acres of thigh when sitting at a business meeting , you 'll never be taken seriously .
9 Our Lord left this earthly scene to occupy his throne and to sit at the Father 's table .
10 She spooned four heaped spoonfuls of sugar into it and some condensed milk and sat at the kitchen table .
11 The chance has come in a review conducted by Andrew Large , chairman of the Securities and Investments Board ( SIB ) , the body that sits at the apex of Britain 's regulatory structure .
12 ‘ Not only the members of the small governing class but every squire , tradesman and farmer who could afford to modernize or rebuild his house , even the parson , deputy of Christ , lived behind a façade which was conceived in the terms of a Classical Order , entered his home through a doorway deriving from the portico of a pagan shrine and sat at a hearth which resembled a miniature triumphal arch or an altar to the Lares . ’
13 People started coming into the dining room and sitting at the tables regardless of the fact that we were still in the station .
14 Then he got pen and writing pad and sat at the table .
15 Athelstan went into the nave and sat at the base of a pillar , legs crossed , whilst he stared up at the high altar behind the rood screen .
16 ‘ That 's because he enters by the old tower door and sits at the back , where he ca n't be seen , ’ she replied eagerly .
17 A lady with a drained face wrapped in a nylon scarf and sitting at a table near by glanced up with a scowl .
18 Benjamin covered the woman 's face with a cloth and sat at the table .
19 She filled her plate and sat at a table by a window .
20 With only a little imagination we can see the gene as sitting at the centre of a radiating web of extended phenotypic power .
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