Example sentences of "have [been] sitting at the " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | Although he had been fortunate to have been sitting at the back of the coach he received a fractured spine . |
3 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
4 | Adele Venetz , the sister that Wayne always thought of as the quiet one , had been sitting at the big rolling-out table as he 'd entered the restaurant kitchen . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | Peter had been sitting at the table on which there was a mug of tea and a brightly coloured magazine . |
7 | He wished that he could have listened to their conversation , but he would not have made much of it if he had been sitting at the next table . |
8 | His father had been working on the farm and he had been sitting at the door of the hut . |