Example sentences of "sat [adv] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 They sat down to a celebration champagne lunch with Dai Davies , the farm manager , and set about opening the heaps of telegrams and congratulatory letters ‘ so that we really felt on top of the world ’ .
2 Finally , after the audience 's taste buds had been thoroughly excited , we sat down to a gourmet meal with invited guests , Professor Andrew Keller of the Physics Department and Professor Richard Gregory from the Brain and Perception Unit .
3 Knowing that not many Southwark families sat down to a breakfast like that , the Beavises blessed their luck and addressed the world with beaming gratitude .
4 I was a little tired and went to my room to rest before dressing for dinner and he sat down to a game of Patience .
5 Ninety guests , including André Gide , Picasso , Max Jacob , Matisse , Vlaminck and Cocteau , sat down to a meal of fantasy .
6 Her parents were a benign though distant presence and it was n't until Charles was seven that he actually sat down to a meal with his father in the downstairs dining-room .
7 I 've forgotten the last time we really enjoyed ourselves together and sat down to a meal uninterrupted by telephone calls . ’
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