Example sentences of "was sit at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Swear when he was sat at the top of the stairs shivering he looked so thin . |
| 2 | A man was sitting at a desk , typing , another stood by a filing cabinet . |
| 3 | Conway 's secretary , Marie , was sitting at a desk . |
| 4 | ‘ They sent me out to do a match report and while I was sitting at a desk typing it up , Captain Bob appeared in the office , attracted by the presence of television cameras . |
| 5 | She was sitting at a table in the recreation room with her relatives round her . |
| 6 | Nell was sitting at a table with a fortyish couple who she later told me owned one of the horses in the box-car , a dark bay called Redi-Hot . |
| 7 | Sheridan Lorrimore , who was sitting at a table apart from his parents , demanded I bring him a double Scotch at once . |
| 8 | A few months later I was sitting at a table opposite three Foreign Office officials . |
| 9 | An old man with white hair was sitting at a table . |
| 10 | Doctor Stevie was sitting at a table having an early lunch . |
| 11 | The photo had been taken indoors and in poor light : the boy was sitting at a table , his head resting on one hand , a candle flickering nearby . |
| 12 | The man he was looking for , a Greek , was sitting at a table outside a cafe , deep in conversation with three Arabs . |
| 13 | Mandy was sitting at a table with other staff , all of them laughing and having a wonderful time . |
| 14 | He was sitting at a corner table with an English girl called Rose Franklin . |
| 15 | He was sitting at an angle which allowed him to watch the door . |
| 16 | Someone was sitting at the stone chess table . |
| 17 | He was sitting at the kitchen table , wearing one of Buddie 's shirts and sipping cocoa from a large cup , when his nanny , Buddie 's mam , arrived at the house . |
| 18 | So he was sitting at the kitchen table eating his plate of beans when Donald walked in . |
| 19 | Leo was sitting at the kitchen table , his large frame almost dwarfing the little wooden chair , arms folded across his massive chest so that it pulled the material of his shirt impossibly tight . |
| 20 | Martin Bean was sitting at the kitchen table . |
| 21 | She was sitting at the mirror in her room , having excused herself from her cousins ' chatter minutes before . |
| 22 | A rat was sitting at the top of the companion . |
| 23 | The fourth , who was sitting at the other , is now standing . |
| 24 | At the very last minute Nessie handed the pig bucket to Tim , who was sitting at the back with Kevin and the children ready to jump off at the road end . |
| 25 | I was sitting at the back of the 17th green at the Scottish Open this year watching the action . |
| 26 | At the end of the reading there was some consternation but Eliot , who was sitting at the back of the room , was heard to mutter , " It 's a good poem , it 's a very good poem " . |
| 27 | And er very straight-faced in fact , and she was sitting at the back of the room , and I , I 'd just said to everybody , I said nobody here 's got a life purchased annuity , have they ? |
| 28 | Charles was sitting at the back of the hall with Malcolm Harris , and kept feeling the author tense as another of his speeches was chopped up and destroyed . |
| 29 | On Friday Madge Grimsilk was sitting at the back of the stalls again . |
| 30 | Bush was sitting at the boss 's table and I sat down opposite . |