Example sentences of "be sitting at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( They 're sitting at the corner of a teashop table , say . ) |
| 2 | We 've got Gerry Addams who er wanted earlier in the week if we were to believe what seemed now like to be sitting at a table discussing peace , there he is carrying a bomber 's coffin . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'll be sitting at the back and I do n't want anybody showing up the firm , asking questions , telling tales , you get my meaning ? ’ |
| 4 | Stella I 've mentioned ; Stella I was her full title , she would be sitting at the bar , and then later , Stella II would be sitting there beside her . |
| 5 | He has described how everyone present would be sitting at the bar or a small table , sipping drinks and engaged in quiet conversation . |
| 6 | Donna looked at him again , wondering why she felt so guilty to be sitting at the table with this man . |
| 7 | I 'm sitting at the back |
| 8 | I expect Hamish will be writing again pretty soon again too , but here I am sitting at the computer anyway , putting off writing a series of begging letters to friends and connections in various educational and other institutions and organizations asking them to submit to Chambers Harrap ( as we now are ) all partable-with unpublished bumf ( memos , minutes , notices , reports , etc , etc ) to swell the ‘ ephemera ’ ( new stretched meaning ) content of the British National Corpus of English . |
| 9 | We get £28 a week whether we are sitting at a machine all day or operating heavy presses . |
| 10 | And now , on a clear morning , Graham Little and I are sitting at the bottom of the wall , fit and ready to go , and the wall is plastered with verglas . |
| 11 | And that would be , that would be , so if we 're doing it this way , right , let's let's erm , forget about where we are sitting at the moment now , and just look we 're in a helicopter looking at these ships now , so this one radios you in the helicopter and says , that ship S is on a bearing of forty five degrees |
| 12 | By rights , Kate — my partner 's secretary — should have been sitting at a desk in the foyer doing the initial vetting , but you beat us to it ; you were very quick off the mark . |
| 13 | They were all three at the table where they had been sitting at a meal , the curry soup before them , a dreadful static group , posed as for a stage set . |
| 14 | He had been sitting at a table in the corner reading an Italian newspaper and Sandison had hardly paid him any attention . |
| 15 | Does the right hon. Gentleman really believe that if politicians in Northern Ireland had been sitting at a table , the awful atrocities that we have witnessed in the past few days would not have taken place ? |
| 16 | Although he had been fortunate to have been sitting at the back of the coach he received a fractured spine . |
| 17 | His father had been working on the farm and he had been sitting at the door of the hut . |
| 18 | ‘ If we had been sitting at the bottom I could accept my fate , but we are seventh and have lost only one of the last eight games . ’ |
| 19 | I had been sitting at the table housed in the living room bay window , trying to write a paper for a tutorial the next day , but Gavin and Janice had chosen to punctuate their highly audible coupling sessions ( in what the more tenacious core-areas of my long-term memory still sporadically insisted had once been my bedroom ) with an almost equally noisy episode of tortilla chip eating . |
| 20 | Peter had been sitting at the table on which there was a mug of tea and a brightly coloured magazine . |
| 21 | Then she looked swiftly , secretly with her large eyes back to where Conchis must have been sitting at the harpsichord , and then again at me . |
| 22 | Six of us were sitting at a table . |
| 23 | Late on the Saturday evening , in the glow which follows a good dinner and good wines , four of us , all old acquaintances , were sitting at a table in the lounge talking — inevitably — about birds , and the conversation got round to places we would like to visit . |
| 24 | The two of them were sitting at a table in the open air . |
| 25 | Paul Lexington and Bobby Anscombe were sitting at a table in the middle of the room , engaged in a fiercely whispered conversation . |
| 26 | One evening Atkins and his colleague were sitting at the factory exit . |
| 27 | ‘ Has anyone seen Christine or Robert King ? ’ she asked , turning to the others who were sitting at the back of the hall . |
| 28 | Rachel 's opportunity to speak to her parents came on Saturday morning after the community nurse had arrived and was tending to Jennifer in her room and she and her parents were sitting at the kitchen table . |
| 29 | The four police officers were sitting at the conference table in the Director 's office . |
| 30 | Geoffrey and Anthony were sitting at the end of Penzance Gardens , where it met Princedale Road . |