Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [been] sitting at " in BNC.

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1 I had been sitting at the table housed in the living room bay window , trying to write a paper for a tutorial the next day , but Gavin and Janice had chosen to punctuate their highly audible coupling sessions ( in what the more tenacious core-areas of my long-term memory still sporadically insisted had once been my bedroom ) with an almost equally noisy episode of tortilla chip eating .
2 ‘ If we had been sitting at the bottom I could accept my fate , but we are seventh and have lost only one of the last eight games . ’
3 They had been sitting at home ( unheated , before Anna put in the plumbing and the armchairs ) with cousins and priests coming to black coffee now and then while the prince was out on his horse or at the club .
4 They were all three at the table where they had been sitting at a meal , the curry soup before them , a dreadful static group , posed as for a stage set .
5 He had been sitting at a table in the corner reading an Italian newspaper and Sandison had hardly paid him any attention .
6 He wished that he could have listened to their conversation , but he would not have made much of it if he had been sitting at the next table .
7 His father had been working on the farm and he had been sitting at the door of the hut .
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