Example sentences of "sat at [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her Royal Highness sat at a round table with the Duke and Duchess of Westminster , Viscount and Viscountess Astor , Mr and Mrs Ian Bruce he is the Director General of the RNIB ; $insert names$ and his sister Lady Aird who has been one of Princess Margaret 's ladies-in-waiting for thirty years , and was in attendance this evening . |
| 2 | Queen Elizabeth sat at a round table with the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress , near the Lord Mayor 's canopy . |
| 3 | They sat at a low bench hard against the wall . |
| 4 | Torpedo-shaped glass lifts offered noiseless access to the different levels , on one of which a pianist sat at a grand piano playing classical music while an enormous golden pendulum suspended from the roof swung slowly from one side of the atrium to the other . |
| 5 | Robert sat at a vacant space and put his head in his hands . |
| 6 | A Sergeant with a crudely reconstructed pink blob of a nose — obviously bitten off at some stage in his professional or previous career — sat at a damascened bronze data-desk stained green with cupreous patina . |
| 7 | I followed the Sergeant out to the office ; we both sat at a small table , and after a very enjoyable supper of cheese rolls we played the chanters until 1 a.m. , pausing from time to time to drink a mug of tea . |
| 8 | They sat at a small table by the window . |
| 9 | An MP sat at a small table beside it . |
| 10 | ‘ But I think it is a pointless exercise , ’ said Floy , somewhere towards morning , a thin , cold light filtering in through the windows to where he sat at a great desk , his black hair tumbled , hollows in his cheeks , his face white with fatigue . |
| 11 | The curtains were drawn and Sean Riley sat at a crowded desk doing his accounts . |
| 12 | He sat at a makeshift desk of unfinished lumber , and wrote and played with his thinning hair . |
| 13 | Her butterfly cap sat at a saucy angle on her black hair . |
| 14 | They sat at a rickety table on the perimeter of the square , under the shade of an umbrella , sipping espresso , eating anisette biscuits , and watching the large , colourful crowd . |
| 15 | He sat at a large desk covered with papers , journals , medical books , a portable typewriter pushed to one end . |
| 16 | Two younger men , serfs by their garb , and most likely travelling with the merchant for his protection , sat at a nearby table nursing ale-cups . |
| 17 | The bartender , squat and ugly with one white eye , wore an apron and soiled shirt and sat at a high stool reading a newspaper . |
| 18 | Miss Hazelwood sat at a high centre desk , seemingly reading a book . |
| 19 | We sat at a special table and just told jokes about the Russians , the Americans , and ourselves . ’ |
| 20 | The banker sat at an enormous desk surrounded by acres of carpet , in a room hung with what looked like Dutch Old Masters , though I suppose they may have been reproductions . |
| 21 | ‘ Come and have a drink , ’ said Cormack , and they moved into the bar and sat at the fixed tables and watched the glasses slide from rim to rim . |
| 22 | She went into the kitchen and tidied up , and then sat at the front window , watching people pass , hunched in her own disillusionment . |
| 23 | When I fink of all that time 'e jus ' sat at the front door wiv 'is 'ead in 'is 'ands , I shudder . |
| 24 | The only sounds in the room were the scratching of his pen-nib as he made each entry , and the chink of coins as he counted them out of the cash box — and the heavy breathing of Marcus Judge , who sat at the other side of the desk , his eyes fixed upon his son . |
| 25 | And it sat at the other side of the gate |
| 26 | Mrs Rae sat at the other side of the fireplace and Madge watched her small eyes dart about in silent appraisal . |
| 27 | The Doctor sat at the other side of the cell , sulking . |
| 28 | Cicely Hepwood sat at the other side of the table next to her husband , with Travis seated next to his mother . |
| 29 | They passed from her to Louis , who sat at the other end of the sofa reading Le Figaro . |
| 30 | I sat at one end of the table and Wallis sat at the other end . |