Example sentences of "[coord] sit at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Colonel Peter Young was a popular officer , well liked by everyone , always seemed to be of the same temperament , in action , or sitting at the bar in a country inn . |
| 2 | Schooldays , for Wigglesworth , were not , curiously , filled with concert-going , or sitting at the baton-end of the great . |
| 3 | ‘ Go and sit at the table . |
| 4 | come and sit at the table and wait , come on , put those away |
| 5 | Look we have got special bread now come on and sit at the table with us , |
| 6 | well not posters , the horsewatch is a prime example where I wanted to look at setting a format in a particular way , and to sit at the side of either Alf or Tracey well now alter it to that or to that I 'm sure they 'd do it , but nevertheless it 's putting them off their work . |
| 7 | Our Lord left this earthly scene to occupy his throne and to sit at the Father 's table . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He comes to the bar and sits at the table there by the tree . ’ |
| 11 | Made of stardust , and sitting at the centre of the Universe . ’ |
| 12 | I mean , what we 're trying to do in the visual arts is to spend what limited money we have to produce a better situation for the visual artist and for the public who gets pleasure and enlightenment from visual arts than exists at the moment , so rather than just prop up the status quo , which is what is would be very easy to do if one just kept the pot boiling so to speak by giving a few grants to artists here and sitting at the centre of a spider 's web in Tunbridge Wells waiting for applications to come in to us and then responding . |
| 13 | because , you know , you will see a couple of doctors wandering around and sitting at the desk |
| 14 | He looked at her derisively and left her to it , drinking the coffee he had made and sitting at the table . |
| 15 | ‘ In the end we asked them to come and sit at the back of the stage , ’ Miss Picon recalled . |
| 16 | the vicar used to come and sit at the back and , you know , they used to do a little turn , you know play in the bands |
| 17 | wanted that old , is it , the rag and bone people , you know , rubbish , and er I suppose somebody taught him and er he , he played in that and er you know did the little towns and the vic the vicar used to come and sit at the back , a seat under against , under the window and watch , perhaps he thought he 'd er get some little co |
| 18 | Oh shall we go and sit at the cafe ? |
| 19 | ‘ Can I come and sit at the table with you when the eggs and bacon are ready ? ’ |
| 20 | Can I go and sit at the table cos my tea 's there . |
| 21 | Do you mind and sit at the table |
| 22 | Others simply stood around the door resisting every invitation to come forward and sit at the front among middle-aged relations and family friends . |
| 23 | Half an hour later , he went into the Lights of Lisbon and sat at the bar . |
| 24 | She spooned four heaped spoonfuls of sugar into it and some condensed milk and sat at the kitchen table . |
| 25 | A woman walked in and sat at the middle of the counter — Maxim had chosen the furthest end . |
| 26 | Alice made coffee , set around the mugs , and sat at the head of the table . |
| 27 | Athelstan went into the nave and sat at the base of a pillar , legs crossed , whilst he stared up at the high altar behind the rood screen . |
| 28 | We followed him outside and sat at the tin table under the tree . |
| 29 | ‘ I went to Co Tyrone , my mother 's county , with the cup all day and then came home and sat at the fire with my wife and talked about the hotel and what had gone on that day . ’ |
| 30 | Then he got pen and writing pad and sat at the table . |