Example sentences of "sit [adv prt] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jamie and I sit down at a side table to wait . |
| 2 | Guests are often late and rarely sit down at the table on time . |
| 3 | Please sit down at the table . |
| 4 | There 's plenty here , so if you clean yourself up and sit down at the table I 'll put something out for you too . |
| 5 | And there 's another sort of things now that we do n't hear is when you sit down at the table to eat erm they 're probably the most the hostess would say now would be , Help yourself . |
| 6 | The temptation and the suspense novel , a book in which a high degree of identification both from intellectual curiosity and emotional involvement is necessary for the writer as much as the reader , is to catch hold of some intriguing initial situation , sit down at the typewriter and go racing ahead from there . |
| 7 | She could almost imagine the door opening and Isabelle coming in to sit down at the dressing-table with its pretty antique tortoiseshell and silver toilet set , humming softly as she loved to do . |
| 8 | Mrs Fry went straight to the kitchen , told us to sit down at the table , opened the oven ( split-level cooker , of course ) and got out a huge pot . |
| 9 | Then he would have been able to sit down at the table , loosen his shirt collar , his shoelaces , and read the evening paper until Patsy was ready . |
| 10 | They say they are looking forward to seeing him soon , and that he will be safely with them to sit down at the table and enjoy the feast of the next Thanksgiving dinner . |
| 11 | ‘ I see nothing to celebrate , ’ said Charlotte Feaver , the first to sit down at the table despite what lay upon it . |
| 12 | You get a nice space to sit down at the table |
| 13 | If we were gon na say , right , this only is gon na apply to mega- projects , tt and therefore it would be appropriate for the project coordinator to be the person to sit down at the start of the job , when he 's agreeing the remit with the client , when he 's developing the erm tt er who 's doing what within the functions . |
| 14 | " Andrew is a very complex character as a man , but when he 's composing , he 's just like anybody else — he sits down at the piano looking for the tune , " explains Black . |
| 15 | if you like the germ of the idea of the poem is alive in his mind because he sits down at the page thinking I 'm going to write a poem . |
| 16 | You got a very good committee , dedicated committee erm who , you see the young trainees were sent to the technical colleges and you see , erm some of them did go on if they graduated to Stanford Hall , but I mean those that went to technical college , we used to have to get the committee to sit in at the examinations . |
| 17 | Members of his court such as Diane de Beauveau Craon , her stepmother Laure and certain editors are invited to sit in at the studio for a preview . |
| 18 | But to this day he had not once sat down at a table prepared by Beth , and both she and David knew only too well that it was a deliberate snub . |
| 19 | They all stared at me wide-eyed and continued to stand and stare even after I had sat down at the table . |
| 20 | Times I 've , I 've sat up at the window trying to wa watch her coming round two o'clock in the morning hoping that he 's fallen asleep down in the armchair . |
| 21 | Now come along , sit up at the table and have your tea . ’ |
| 22 | There , sit up at the table . |
| 23 | Go and sit up at the table erm Christopher . |
| 24 | He usually sits up at the window . |
| 25 | Well sit back at the table please . |
| 26 | Sit back at the table properly ! |
| 27 | They danced two dances together — or , rather , one and a half , for in the middle of the second , a waltz , he complained of feeling hot and giddy and she took him to sit out at the side . |
| 28 | no one sits out at the tables |
| 29 | ‘ There is research to be done , ’ Dury said , sitting down at a table strewn with photocopies from obscure-looking reference books . |
| 30 | By the time he felt able to add sound effects , Jenny was sitting down at a table with two girls and three youths . |