Example sentences of "sat at the [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | When she 'd finished he sat at the kitchen table , watching her getting his tea ready , brooding . |
2 | Now he sat at the kitchen table with the worm-cake before him and the taste of nausea already on his tongue . |
3 | They sat at the kitchen table sipping tea , waiting . |
4 | I sat at the kitchen table , staring at the blind white blankness in front of me , and slowly , like a clear spring welling up from the common earth , the poem rose and spread and filled me , unstoppable as flood water , technique unknotting even as it ran , like snags rolled away on the flood . |
5 | He sat at the kitchen table . |
6 | She spooned four heaped spoonfuls of sugar into it and some condensed milk and sat at the kitchen table . |
7 | Bleakly , he sat at the kitchen table eating spaghetti bolognaise out of a tin . |
8 | They sat at the kitchen table with the manuscript between them . |
9 | After making the tea she sat at the kitchen table to drink it , and was still sitting there when dawn broke . |
10 | She sat at the breakfast bar and lit herself a cigarette . |
11 | Evelyn and Dan sat at the breakfast bar . |
12 | Now she walked into the kitchen as Lizzy sat at the breakfast bar and threw the diary in front of her . |
13 | For a long time she sat at the breakfast bar , gazing into space , searching for answers and finding none . |
14 | She sat at the breakfast table , trying to calm her nerves , and eventually she drew the envelope from her housecoat pocket and opened it , reading the words that were written inside , and feeling the blood drain from her face . |
15 | The mail arrived early and he opened his letters as he sat at the breakfast table . |
16 | ‘ We sat at the head table … . |
17 | Miguelito sat at the saloon table . |
18 | As the first years passed , and the courses of lectures did not have to be prepared out of nothing , he sat at the bay window in the sub-warden 's study , looking out towards the cathedral , and started to write his first book . |
19 | Anthea Darnell sat at the mahogany desk in the living room of her cottage , writing a rough draft of her forthcoming lecture on bubonic plague . |
20 | Donna sat at the sitting-room window , the Beretta on the sill in front of her . |
21 | The words stuck in Folly 's mind , coming back to her next morning as she sat at the Rose Bowl 's work-table , preparing roses for conditioning by crushing the tips of their stems with a heavy mallet . |
22 | An old man with a very straight back sat at the Star Table . |
23 | The six competitors sat at the tea tables , together but strangely separate — each gazing at her hands or off into the distance , and never at one another . |
24 | We sat at the upstairs bar with two tall glasses of iced white Eger wine , for which I paid . |
25 | Asa Vaughan sat at the dining table in the living room at Ilse Huber 's apartment , Devlin opposite him . |
26 | Ruth sat at the table eating bread and jam . |
27 | We followed him outside and sat at the tin table under the tree . |
28 | Lucy looked across the room to where the older man sat at the corner table . |