Example sentences of "[pers pn] sat at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sat at a table in the window and drank a filtre . |
| 2 | The next problem was how to deliver it , since I sat at the back in English ( our next lesson ) and Belinda sat at the front — which was how I knew that her hair touched her chair ! |
| 3 | A lovely lady , Molly Braithwaite , came to teach , and one day as I sat at the back I felt ‘ Surely I could do a little of that gently swinging ’ , picked up a club , and was off ‘ moving with the Medau ’ . |
| 4 | I sat at the kitchen table , staring at the blind white blankness in front of me , and slowly , like a clear spring welling up from the common earth , the poem rose and spread and filled me , unstoppable as flood water , technique unknotting even as it ran , like snags rolled away on the flood . |
| 5 | I SAT AT THE BAR of the Late Nite Lounge , watching the floor show . |
| 6 | Back in my room , I sat at the desk and considered . |
| 7 | About 8 p.m. that evening Taff and I sat at the side of our slit trench eating what I thought was a rather dubious lump of meat . |
| 8 | I sat at the front of the coach , next to the driver . |
| 9 | At dinner the two cholerics carried on a huddled conversation while I sat at the end of the row feeling the cutlery might melt in my hands . |
| 10 | In any case it would be better if I sat at the table , the light was better there and I should not get lazy . |
| 11 | I sat at the table we used to use and tried to think what I really believed . |
| 12 | She sat at a table while he went to get their lager and ploughman 's lunches . |
| 13 | Brushing her hair back , she sat at the desk , trying to force her thoughts back into some semblance of order . |
| 14 | With a brief wave Lindsey hurried along the corridor towards the consulting-room , where she sat at the desk , taking several deep breaths to compose herself before calling for her first patient . |
| 15 | The farm workers took their seats , and she sat at the top of the table , so that she was with them , but a little apart . |
| 16 | She sat at the edge of the cockpit , curled her legs into the warm shelter of the jacket , then hunched down into the thick collar so that all I could see of her face was her enormous , moon-silvered and lemur-like eyes beneath the pale gleam of her short bright hair . |
| 17 | She sat at the foot of the bed , and appraised his muscular young body . |
| 18 | She sat at the breakfast table , trying to calm her nerves , and eventually she drew the envelope from her housecoat pocket and opened it , reading the words that were written inside , and feeling the blood drain from her face . |
| 19 | She sat at the breakfast bar and lit herself a cigarette . |
| 20 | For a long time she sat at the breakfast bar , gazing into space , searching for answers and finding none . |
| 21 | She sat at the feet of Wyatt . |
| 22 | After making the tea she sat at the kitchen table to drink it , and was still sitting there when dawn broke . |
| 23 | She sat at the window , looking out on the gardens , not wanting to be reminded of her ordeal as her two companions searched for any clues that might have been left . |
| 24 | The words stuck in Folly 's mind , coming back to her next morning as she sat at the Rose Bowl 's work-table , preparing roses for conditioning by crushing the tips of their stems with a heavy mallet . |
| 25 | When he had left Merrill breathed a sigh of relief , but as she sat at the dressing-table removing her make-up something inside her wept . |
| 26 | She sat at the front during seminars and posed questions to our tutor that were more like statements . |
| 27 | They suggested she sat at the front of the class , and her bright hand shot up to answer every question . |
| 28 | She sat at the table with a shrug , the green eyes troubled . |
| 29 | She sat at the table and painstakingly wrote down the sums of money that should have come in for the work already done . |
| 30 | She sat at the table , picked up one of the pens , and began work . |