Example sentences of "sitting at the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He found Kersey , sitting at the desk in an upstair , borrowed office surrounded by house-to-house reports prepared on the premises . |
| 2 | They may spend Saturday night together , and as often as not you see the men holding up the bar with their pints and the women sitting at the tables with their shorts . |
| 3 | And now , on a clear morning , Graham Little and I are sitting at the bottom of the wall , fit and ready to go , and the wall is plastered with verglas . |
| 4 | She was sitting at the mirror in her room , having excused herself from her cousins ' chatter minutes before . |
| 5 | Peg , sitting at the head of the table holding a cup between her hands , nodded . |
| 6 | WORK , LOVE LIFESTYLE — ‘ they all connect ’ , says Neneh , sitting at the head of the dining room table . |
| 7 | Reggie and Mary opposite each other , so amiable and self-assured ; Alice sitting at the head of that table , waiting for what would come her way . |
| 8 | Colonel Peter Young was a popular officer , well liked by everyone , always seemed to be of the same temperament , in action , or sitting at the bar in a country inn . |
| 9 | A rat was sitting at the top of the companion . |
| 10 | He is sitting at the top of the stairs , sobbing . |
| 11 | For it 's no use looking to this novel for even a premonition of a cleansed Russia sitting at the feet of Jesus . |
| 12 | He was older than Roland , a child of the Sixties who had temporarily dropped out , opted for freedom and Parisian revolutions , sitting at the feet of Barthes and Foucault , before coming back to dazzle Prince Albert College . |
| 13 | people were coming from all over the country to see her , and anyone sitting at the back of the stalls or the upper circle would not catch a glimpse . |
| 14 | Although he had been fortunate to have been sitting at the back of the coach he received a fractured spine . |
| 15 | Here it is seen on a private hire : Walter Luff is sitting at the back of the saloon . |
| 16 | I was sitting at the back of the 17th green at the Scottish Open this year watching the action . |
| 17 | ‘ Has anyone seen Christine or Robert King ? ’ she asked , turning to the others who were sitting at the back of the hall . |
| 18 | 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 " . |
| 19 | First-hand experience is invaluable but only a limited amount of it can be arranged and you certainly ca n't have large numbers of trainees sitting at the back of the same class . |
| 20 | 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 ? |
| 21 | Robert found her , smiling and alone , sitting at the back of a stand . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Devlin , sitting at the back of the Dornier in a flying suit , his supply bag beside him , was approached by the wireless operator . |
| 24 | On Friday Madge Grimsilk was sitting at the back of the stalls again . |
| 25 | Erm , what happens of course , is th that the lecture is brilliantly delivered , er , but , but , what happens is he , the chauffeur finishes two minutes early and the chairman , being excellent as a Chairperson , actually says , we have time for just one question , and er , someone stands up and asks the most dreadful question from the audience , and er , the chauffeur listens to the question , thinks , and th then says , that 's questions very easy , very easy indeed , that question is so easy , I 'm going to ask my chauffeur who is sitting at the back of the room |
| 26 | Now sitting at the back of the room is Sandra , who does much of the work . |
| 27 | S sitting at the back of the boat like that and how |
| 28 | common and he lived at Grimston and er he got this plot and er what was right next door to it was a sort of real big old li like a French chateau and he wanted a big ge red brick Georgian house , a real big one , sort of sitting at the back of this plot that the owner |
| 29 | There was the board of governors sitting at the back on this cold grey Monday and I got up and I did some Shakespeare and by the time I finished , dawn was breaking . |
| 30 | 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 . |