Example sentences of "they sat at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She and Corrie were allowed to play while the other children attended lessons in alphabets and multiplication tables , but they sat at one end of the long playroom like wilting flowers , still too unhappy at their uprooting to do anything . |
| 2 | They sat at separate tables and waited until the band started its last set with a synthesised pastiche of Hello Dolly . |
| 3 | Tight-lipped , she drove in silence , keeping her eyes firmly on the road , but as they sat at red traffic-lights waiting for them to change she could n't keep silent any longer . |
| 4 | Whenever they came to meetings at the department they sat at opposite ends of the table . |
| 5 | She remembered how the table around which they sat at High Tea , was covered with a sheet of speckled grey lino which had a strange stickiness . |
| 6 | They sat at different places in the room , most of them also with drinks cradled in their hands . |