Example sentences of "he sit at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This showed him sitting at a desk , pencil in hand : his mother 's vision of what school should be about . |
| 2 | He watched his dejected figure walk past him into the cottage and , after allowing a few minutes to elapse , followed him in and discovered him sitting at the table in the living room , his bag of apples and sandwich lying untouched . |
| 3 | Cowley could see him sitting at the garden table , staring blankly into the distance . |
| 4 | When Buck goes to a diner , he sits at a table opposite a creepy woman with a nervous tic who keeps running a grey rubber mouse over her face . |
| 5 | There he sits at a table , a confident and debonaire man-about-town , a bachelor with even a touch of the dandy about him . |
| 6 | Since the quadrupling of the defence budget in 1950–55 , the president 's main source of power has come from the fact that he sits at the head of a great ‘ national security state ’ — to adopt the phrase of Daniel Patrick Moynihan , a Democratic senator . |
| 7 | For example the owner of a motor vehicle can be said to use it where he sits at the side of the driver , who is not his employee and the vehicle is being used for his purpose ( Cobb v Williams [ 1973 ] RTR 1 13 ) . |
| 8 | [ He sits at the table . ] |
| 9 | Very loudly ( ad for some time before ) , a tailor had been singing as he sat at a window in a comer of the yard . |
| 10 | At that time of year there were few people about and he sat at a table by himself . |
| 11 | We can infer that George was in a restaurant , and that he sat at a table and looked at a menu . |
| 12 | When she 'd finished he sat at the kitchen table , watching her getting his tea ready , brooding . |
| 13 | Now he sat at the kitchen table with the worm-cake before him and the taste of nausea already on his tongue . |
| 14 | He sat at the kitchen table . |
| 15 | Bleakly , he sat at the kitchen table eating spaghetti bolognaise out of a tin . |
| 16 | As the first years passed , and the courses of lectures did not have to be prepared out of nothing , he sat at the bay window in the sub-warden 's study , looking out towards the cathedral , and started to write his first book . |
| 17 | He sat at the top of the stairs as the news sank in . |
| 18 | He sat at the head of the table and was served by kneeling courtiers such as might have attended a real prince . |
| 19 | He sat at the head of the table carefully scrutinising the document in front of him as if it were a religious text which he had to examine for scriptural errors . |
| 20 | He sat at the head of the table in his white shirt , beautifully washed by Giovanna , with a silk scarf knotted at the neck , looking handsome and quizzical as he drank Chianti and told the girls about his less lurid divorce cases and more eccentric clients . |
| 21 | He sat at the desk , made some marks on the paper before him , then looked up . |
| 22 | He sat at the desk , a French antique , and took a sheet of notepaper . |
| 23 | He sat at the desk , his head hanging forward on his chest , taking quick drags on his cigarette . |
| 24 | The mail arrived early and he opened his letters as he sat at the breakfast table . |
| 25 | Cranston had already dismissed the poem , but when he read the indenture he sat at the foot of the bed stupefied , the parchment held loosely between his fingers . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The lights went down and he sat at the back , trying to gauge the reaction of a packed audience . |
| 29 | Finally they found a canvas and Modi seated Indenbaum at one end of the long narrow studio while he sat at the other . |
| 30 | Lee had risen and moved to where he sat at the table and was showing him the completed unicorn 's head . |