Example sentences of "sits at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carl sits at a table , engrossed in his work . |
| 2 | When Buck goes to a diner , he sits at a table opposite a creepy woman with a nervous tic who keeps running a grey rubber mouse over her face . |
| 3 | There he sits at a table , a confident and debonaire man-about-town , a bachelor with even a touch of the dandy about him . |
| 4 | Tony Parsons sits at a table in his tastefully grey-decorated house in the moderately fashionable Canonbury area of London . |
| 5 | His study Sally ( the lady sits at a table and looks straight ahead at the viewer ) possesses painterly values of real distinction . |
| 6 | She sits at a tea table with MR . |
| 7 | The new Fiat Croma Turbo sits at the peak of the Italian manufacturer 's range at £19 , 249 . |
| 8 | It is this tension between the grandiose themes of cosmology and its mundane workings that sits at the heart of Dennis Overbye 's superb book . |
| 9 | THE NUCLEUS sits at the heart of the atom , its constituent protons and neutrons bound together by the strong nuclear force . |
| 10 | Howard sits at the breakfast table with the card in his hand , giggling over it . |
| 11 | One example of an organism possessed of such a rather basic nervous system is the tiny , pond-living hydra ( Fig 7.3 ) , which sits at the bottom of ponds and streams attached to rocks or water plants and waving its tentacles above its mouth . |
| 12 | If it sits at the bottom of your belly , glowering like a smouldering fire , threatening to explode suddenly at any time and paralyse you ? |
| 13 | Now the child sits at the computer screen . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | And so er , they changed hats , when they get there , and the chauffeur 's introduced a as the professor , goes on the platform , and of course the professor sits at the back of the room with the chauffeur 's hat . |
| 16 | Another , indeterminate — but male — figure sits at the foot of a street lamp , among bollards near Le Sueur 's equestrian statue of Charles I. To the left of the sculptured pedestal of the statue is the afterimage of a third figure — silhouetted against the awning of a shop : the transparent hat , head and shoulders of another cab-driver . |
| 17 | Bogle himself sits at the desk by the door and takes the money . |
| 18 | We told them how our oldest member , 91-year-old Mr. Hunt , takes unfailing care of our security , and sits at the hub of the affair providing a whole intelligence service for us as well . |
| 19 | She sits at the marriage banquet , apparently in a cafe , and the harlequin has just presented her with a bouquet . |
| 20 | Vic sits at the head of the table , in his shirtsleeves , half a cup of cold coffee at his right hand . |
| 21 | Since the quadrupling of the defence budget in 1950–55 , the president 's main source of power has come from the fact that he sits at the head of a great ‘ national security state ’ — to adopt the phrase of Daniel Patrick Moynihan , a Democratic senator . |
| 22 | A line of girls sits at the bar , ready at the jerk of a head or the flick of a finger to minister to the solitary Somerset Maughams at every table with drinks , smiles and conversation in carefully-broken Americanisms . |
| 23 | He also threatened to call in the receiver to Mr Bond 's master corporation and to his private family company , Dallhold Investments — the firm which sits at the top of the whole debt-laden business structure . |
| 24 | An image of your PC keyboard sits at the top of the screen and around the edges are a variety of indicators for accuracy and speed . |
| 25 | Amid these cliches , sly slanders and unavoidable realities , Ann Jones sits at the net and ponders . |
| 26 | Amid these cliches , sly slanders and unavoidable realities , Ann Jones sits at the net and ponders . |
| 27 | Crilly takes my arm and leads me from the clinic , onto the green and into the car where Anita sits at the wheel . |
| 28 | She sits at the table and smiles , asking firmly for a solo-brandy and coke in separate glasses . |
| 29 | [ He sits at the table . ] |
| 30 | He comes to the bar and sits at the table there by the tree . ’ |