Example sentences of "[was/were] sit at [art] [noun] in " in BNC.

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1 Late on the Saturday evening , in the glow which follows a good dinner and good wines , four of us , all old acquaintances , were sitting at a table in the lounge talking — inevitably — about birds , and the conversation got round to places we would like to visit .
2 The two of them were sitting at a table in the open air .
3 Paul Lexington and Bobby Anscombe were sitting at a table in the middle of the room , engaged in a fiercely whispered conversation .
4 She was sitting at a table in the recreation room with her relatives round her .
5 She was sitting at the mirror in her room , having excused herself from her cousins ' chatter minutes before .
6 By eight o'clock that evening Paige was sitting at the dressing-table in her luxurious hotel room busily putting the finishing touches to her make-up .
7 He was sitting at the bench in the window , writing notes .
8 Farrell was sitting at the table in the room , thumbing 9mm bullets into two magazines for the UZI .
9 That same evening , after dark , Seb was sitting at the table in Fern Cottage , working by the light of a lamp .
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