Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] sat at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In any case it would be better if I sat at the table , the light was better there and I should not get lazy . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ! |
| 5 | Afraid that at any moment someone would shout ‘ Grab her ! ’ and drag her off to some unspecified yet ineluctable torment , she forced herself at least to look calm while she sat at the console on the dais . |
| 6 | Finally they found a canvas and Modi seated Indenbaum at one end of the long narrow studio while he sat at the other . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | That was it , Julia said to herself , as she sat at the big scrubbed table in the Florentine kitchen , all those years and a thousand miles away . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Well , that makes two of us , Hilary thought with a little smile as she sat at the table . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | As we sat at the loch eating a cold lunch , deciding who could first pin the blame on the other for messing up the day , we heard voices from the cliffs surrounding the lochan . |
| 13 | The raw , rough feeling in his voice was so obvious that Julia forgot all her determined restraint of the previous evening and put her arms around him as he sat at the table , laying her head on his . |
| 14 | The mail arrived early and he opened his letters as he sat at the breakfast table . |
| 15 | ‘ What 's it all mean ? ’ asked Lewis , as he sat at the table , with a pint of Brakspear for Morse and a half of the same for himself . |
| 16 | The prince was visibly moved by the bravery of Bronwen Vickers , 33 , a mother of two , from Knutsford , Cheshire , as he sat at the foot of her bed at Warrington General Hospital . |
| 17 | He was visibly moved by the bravery of Bronwen Vickers , 33 , a mother of two from Knutsford , Cheshire , as he sat at the foot of her bed at Warrington General Hospital . |