Example sentences of "he sit at a [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 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 .
3 There he sits at a table , a confident and debonaire man-about-town , a bachelor with even a touch of the dandy about him .
4 Very loudly ( ad for some time before ) , a tailor had been singing as he sat at a window in a comer of the yard .
5 At that time of year there were few people about and he sat at a table by himself .
6 We can infer that George was in a restaurant , and that he sat at a table and looked at a menu .
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