Example sentences of "sit [adv] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fenella and Floy and Snodgrass had sat quietly at the other side of the table , not eating very much , listening carefully to everything that was said . |
| 2 | It had been glorious just to sit there at the huge dining table , with the sounds of the sea wafting up through the open window , feeling her exhaustion slip away from her , while the energetic Mrs Birkin set before the three of them course after delicious course . |
| 3 | I really thought we was going to end with erm , , cos he was sitting right at the top branch , you know sawing merrily through . |
| 4 | A more erudite musician — or courteous companion — you wo n't meet ; and I shall treasure for aye the memory of his sitting down at the grand piano in the front room of his Edinburgh town-house to demonstrate how two operations to his 95-year-old hands had not impaired his keyboard ability : what he then produced was some of the most sheerly beautiful bach playing I have ever heard . |
| 5 | The Gnomes of Gallan sat together at the far end of the table . |
| 6 | The writer of the Book of Hebrews links the joy and suffering of Christ by saying : ‘ Let us fix our eyes on Jesus , the author and perfecter of our faith , who for the joy set before him endured the cross , scorning its shame , and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God . ’ |
| 7 | The masked figure stepped ponderously off the dais , sat down at the baize-covered table and indicated with a gloved hand that I should join him . |
| 8 | He returned to his room , sat down at the small table and wrote a letter : |
| 9 | Mitch sat down at the small round table in the corner . |
| 10 | She hesitated and then sat down at the far end of one where a lone man was wholly immersed in a newspaper . |
| 11 | He sat down at the far end of the table . |
| 12 | He sat down at the old table by the window and put a new sheet of paper into the typewriter . |
| 13 | Alexandra sat down at the huge scrubbed table at which she had watched twenty years of bread and pastry being made . |
| 14 | They sat down at the big kitchen table and Mrs Wood put the food on three hot plates . |
| 15 | He walked on to the stage and sat down at the big piano . |
| 16 | She was too to enjoy the hot weather and little beads of perspiration shone on her forehead as she sat down at the big desk opposite the row of girls . |
| 17 | Donna hurried through into the kitchen and sat down at the wooden table , pulling the envelopes from her handbag . |
| 18 | I sat down at the little table , as well I might . |
| 19 | He poured out , sat back at the other end of the sofa , looked at her . |
| 20 | I made myself a pot of mint tea and sat silently at the living-room table . |