Example sentences of "sit at [art] table " in BNC.

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1 Many are the times me wife and I have sat at the table with a large sheet of graph paper and worked it all out , only to find that either my ruler 's idea of an inch does n't tally with the real thing , or the width of a pencil line on the plan actually equates to a foot in real life .
2 She was sitting at a table in the recreation room with her relatives round her .
3 There 's a man and a woman sitting at a table by the window , and I watch them for a bit .
4 Sometimes they would come and lunch or dine in my hotel , sitting at a table next to ours .
5 It was so much more businesslike to spread out needlework or write letters sitting at a table .
6 Sitting at a table sipping champagne is club owner Lips Manlis ( Paul Sorvino ) , a hood with muscle one of those leftovers from Prohibition days who , despite his fancy clothes and expensive cigars , remains a lug .
7 There were a couple of people already in there , sitting at a table near the counter .
8 When they arrived the place was empty — — it was early evening — except for ‘ two street toughs in camel-hair coats ’ sitting at a table ; ‘ and they were fairly easy to distinguish , and I think we walked up and asked them if they were — and — , and they said yes . ’
9 On our last night we dined on fresh local fish in the Club taverna sitting at a table close to the water 's edge .
10 RICHARD is sitting at a table , poring morosely over his cheque-book stubs .
11 He had been sitting at a table in the corner reading an Italian newspaper and Sandison had hardly paid him any attention .
12 When Sandison arrived at Franco 's bar the next morning at ten to ten , Maidstone was already there , sitting at a table , drinking coffee .
13 Just inside the door there were two Germans in the grey uniform of the Luftwaffe sitting at a table .
14 Six of us were sitting at a table .
15 Sitting at a table with Rebecca Small , Richard Barton , Laura Lewis , Natasha James and Holly Randall she was able to see the children 's work books .
16 ( The story is completed by a picture of the crocodile , wearing a party hat , sitting at a table loaded with cakes .
17 She is sitting at a table , reading a Yiddish newspaper , and doing crochet .
18 Sitting at a table in the corner so that they can see the door , catch the others ' eyes when they come in .
19 Nell was sitting at a table with a fortyish couple who she later told me owned one of the horses in the box-car , a dark bay called Redi-Hot .
20 Sheridan Lorrimore , who was sitting at a table apart from his parents , demanded I bring him a double Scotch at once .
21 ‘ That 's wonderful , ’ said the man , but then he saw four Scots sitting at a table without a drink .
22 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 .
23 In the latter case , the knowledge may include likely events such as sitting at a table , reading the menu , ordering , waiting , being served , eating , paying the bill and so on .
24 Sitting at a table between the two men , uncomfortably close to this violent exchange , Patrick O'Dell tried to pour oil on troubled waters .
25 I remember one day in the 1940s sitting at a table on the first floor of the Crown in Fleet Street , next to a table where an attractive young woman , then unknown to me , was sitting in front of a plate of smoked salmon and opposite an empty place furnished with another plate of smoked salmon , which must have been ordered in advance .
26 In the centre of the room , sitting at a table , was the strangest lady I have ever seen , or shall ever see .
27 A few months later I was sitting at a table opposite three Foreign Office officials .
28 When Chuck crossed to the cook tent , carrying his rifle for the early start they planned for the final day , his father was already sitting at a table in the open , sipping a steaming mug of black coffee .
29 A lady with a drained face wrapped in a nylon scarf and sitting at a table near by glanced up with a scowl .
30 " Table meal " is defined by s.139(1) as meaning a meal eaten by a person sitting at a table or other structure which serves the purpose of a table and is not used for the service of refreshments for consumption by persons not seated at a table or structure serving the purpose of a table , which definition repeats the definition given by the 1962 Act .
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