Example sentences of "sit at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wish I could sit at the table and help cut up Annie 's food like I used to , and we 'd have crackers and we 'd wear those paper hats and have them little prezzies from inside the crackers . |
| 2 | While he talked to a girl , she would sit at the bar and talk to the nearest man . |
| 3 | An audience can only sit at the front of the stage and the hall stretches back for miles . |
| 4 | Woosnam will not sit at the head of the table but , as the newest member , at the end of a sprig . |
| 5 | ‘ In the end we asked them to come and sit at the back of the stage , ’ Miss Picon recalled . |
| 6 | At most Clubs , Pirates can sit at the Captain 's table for an early evening meal , often with free lemonade or mineral water . |
| 7 | his beard and everything to a T. He 'd sit at the top of the table , have his stiff white serviette tucked into his waistcoat , and he 's lifted that carving knife and fork until — you sat there and you never said a word . |
| 8 | She had come to look forward to the intervals between tenants , for at such times she would sit at the bedroom window that overlooked the street , which sloped swiftly to the main thoroughfare ; and guided by the landmarks of St Dominic 's church and , beyond that , St Ann 's , she could look over the chimney pots and catch a glimpse of the river gleaming between the busy traffic on it . |
| 9 | But no one has said that you can not sit at the table and talk to your family , even if you choose not to eat . |
| 10 | He would sit at the head of the long table , the various amounts were packed in white paper with the name of the recipient on each . |
| 11 | That night in the pub I did n't sit at the same table as the others but moved into the other bar with my pint and newspaper . |
| 12 | It would sit at the foot of the sick-bed and , if it gazed at the patient , its eyes would magically absorb the malaise so the man had a renewed chance of life . |
| 13 | Others simply stood around the door resisting every invitation to come forward and sit at the front among middle-aged relations and family friends . |
| 14 | How can he now ever sit at the head of the Church , representing morality and the essential values of love within marriage and devotion to family life ? |
| 15 | The girls said it was the room with the round window that faced down the town and that Eve could sit at the window and watch everyone and where they went and who they were with . |
| 16 | It should follow the command ‘ heel ’ without difficulty , and will also sit at the side of a road before being told to cross . |
| 17 | You can sit at the table and do them . |
| 18 | ‘ Can I come and sit at the table with you when the eggs and bacon are ready ? ’ |
| 19 | ( 1 ) A smaller , more rapidly tumbling bar may sit at the core of the kiloparsec-scale bar discussed above . |
| 20 | She would sit at the piano and sing . |
| 21 | When the kitchen was clean and the children put to bed , Beth and David would go to the sitting room , where he would sit at the circular table , head bent over documents and rent books . |
| 22 | Today I asked him to bind me and gag me and let me sit at the foot of the cellar steps with the door out open . |
| 23 | Their king is Aillen mac Midha , and in the past he would sit at the foot of the Palace ramparts , slender and blue-green , and with the chill faery blood of all the sidh in his veins . |
| 24 | The three of them , she recalled , would often sit at the balcony of the little pavilion and watch the confident arrival of the night . |
| 25 | When young she admired Victoria de los Angeles and Jusi Bjoerling , but found their singing so moving that ‘ I 'd start to weep , the body can hardly stand it ’ , and so would sit at the back of the hall . |
| 26 | If you were lucky enough to be invited for * Eight at Number Eight' , you would sit at the dining table under the inscrutable gaze of Duncan Grant 's tabby-cat ; this cat was painted at Charleston during the First World War , and bought by the Berkeleys many years later for £75 from the Lefevre Gallery . |
| 27 | At that point in his life , he would sit at the door of a club when he was playing and he would glare at the people who came in . |
| 28 | ‘ Ca n't we sit at the front ? |
| 29 | During the session Sir John May , the inquiry chairman , announced that he would sit at the inquiry with three lay assessors , and that the government had agreed to the granting of immunity from prosecution to witnesses . |
| 30 | At this moment the actual tests which pupils will sit at the end of the key stage are in the process of design . |