Example sentences of "[prep] sit at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women may have problems keeping weight down at the time of the menopause and after , and men and businesswomen have their own difficulties if their work involves a good deal of sitting at a desk or car wheel , and giving or receiving hospitality lunches . |
| 2 | It also neutralizes the ill effects of sitting at a desk all day and eating large lunches . |
| 3 | common and he lived at Grimston and er he got this plot and er what was right next door to it was a sort of real big old li like a French chateau and he wanted a big ge red brick Georgian house , a real big one , sort of sitting at the back of this plot that the owner |
| 4 | I mean , like sitting at a breakfast table with a FAMILY . |
| 5 | Souness has just heard that the SFA have banned him from sitting at the touchline for the remainder of the season , and yet again the tabloid press has pushed his tolerance beyond the limit . |
| 6 | I was starving ; it was hours since either of us had eaten but Mrs Lewis made me wash my hands before sitting at the table . |
| 7 | On sitting at the table to enjoy marvellous victuals and music , he saw that a servant was actually the GHOST of his recently dead neighbour . |
| 8 | When one person has in their mind the whole range of the project from initial conception through data analysis and system design to sitting at the computer and typing the program lines into the computer , it 's not only more efficient : the person is creating in freedom like an artist and is involved in the act of creation at a deeper level and as a result enjoys the whole thing . |
| 9 | Zelma , bless her , who has always regarded her son-in-law as a sort of concierge who somehow manages to throw up the odd masterpiece in between sitting at a desk , gazing uselessly out of the window and making endless messes in her kitchen with his coffee dregs and fag ash , had been popping into the study at fairly regular intervals , with unspecific enquiries . |
| 10 | For example , it is very important for a wife who is also a busy mother to learn to speak the local language , but she may have no time for sitting at a desk and making her own drills or doing her own analysis . |
| 11 | I wonder if they charge the same prices for their take away as for sitting at the table . |
| 12 | defiance of house rules ( e.g. breaking rules about playing with matches , about not switching on the TV before the children 's programmes begin , about sitting at the table until the meal is finished , or about not taking food out of the fridge without permission ) ; |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I could learn tailoring by sitting at a bench . |
| 15 | Unsurprisingly , as soon as it opened in April , the Tribeca Bar and Grill became the hottest meal ticket in town , and it 's currently packed out nightly , with a selection of celebs , wannabes , Wall Street suits and star gazers , who can get a perfect view by sitting at the restaurant 's centrepiece , a $15,000 mahogany bar . |