Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] at [art] table " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leaving the boy sitting at the table , he went back to his desk and phoned up to Kate . |
| 2 | On our last night we dined on fresh local fish in the Club taverna sitting at a table close to the water 's edge . |
| 3 | " 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 . |
| 4 | There 's a man and a woman sitting at a table by the window , and I watch them for a bit . |
| 5 | The woman sitting at the table made no attempt to help him . |
| 6 | It could have been any Yorkshire farmhouse kitchen , except that there was no sign of cooking , and no farmer sitting at the table . |
| 7 | They spend long hours in the weeks before the Sale crouching at a table at a dangerous angle of 45°s ; in an airless subterranean cupboard off The Undercroft , arranging the unwanted gifts . |
| 8 | The collection was formed by the late shopping-centre magnate Sir Harold ( later Lord ) Samuel who , on the advice of dealer Edward Speelman , amassed mainly small , highly finished cabinet pictures on copper or panel that were very much to the taste of eighteenth-century collectors but are not often seen in American collections : notably , five town-views by Jan van der Heyden ; a ‘ Winter Landscape with Skaters ’ by Adriaen van de Velde , and a seven-by-nine inch masterpiece by Jan Steen of a couple sleeping at a table beneath an arbour . |
| 9 | She saw her mother sitting at the table , with a pen and some writing paper in front of her . |