Example sentences of "[pers pn] sat at " in BNC.
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| 1 | About 8 p.m. that evening Taff and I sat at the side of our slit trench eating what I thought was a rather dubious lump of meat . |
| 2 | I sat at the front of the coach , next to the driver . |
| 3 | It was because I sat at his feet with my blouse undone . ’ |
| 4 | In any case it would be better if I sat at the table , the light was better there and I should not get lazy . |
| 5 | A passing nurse had noticed the blood as I sat at Aunt Louise 's side . |
| 6 | Afterwards , as the sparse crowd emerged blinking , Pavic and I sat at our tables piled with books . |
| 7 | At dinner the two cholerics carried on a huddled conversation while I sat at the end of the row feeling the cutlery might melt in my hands . |
| 8 | The next problem was how to deliver it , since I sat at the back in English ( our next lesson ) and Belinda sat at the front — which was how I knew that her hair touched her chair ! |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I sat at the open window and looked out on to the purple dark . |
| 11 | I sat at a table in the window and drank a filtre . |
| 12 | So I sat at home here in Haworth , with Aunt Branwell , my son , and the little girl , Anne . |
| 13 | I sat at one end of the table and Wallis sat at the other end . |
| 14 | I SAT AT THE BAR of the Late Nite Lounge , watching the floor show . |
| 15 | Back in my room , I sat at the desk and considered . |
| 16 | I sat at home that night and cried and cried . |
| 17 | Tony Brough ( the Principal ) and I sat at High Table , but it was very democratic because the students also took it in turns to sit at High Table — and to be invited to the Principal 's office for pre-dinner drinks ! |
| 18 | I sat at the table we used to use and tried to think what I really believed . |
| 19 | Benjamin and I sat at one end of the trestle board , they sat at the other , grouped together like stupid boys immersed in their own private jokes . |
| 20 | A lovely lady , Molly Braithwaite , came to teach , and one day as I sat at the back I felt ‘ Surely I could do a little of that gently swinging ’ , picked up a club , and was off ‘ moving with the Medau ’ . |
| 21 | There she was , ably supported by active and intelligent people while she sat at home feeling cold and tired and guilty . |
| 22 | Then she sat at the big table with only a pot of tea for herself while Frankie and his father cleared their plates in silence . |
| 23 | She sat at her ease on the sofa , with her long , booted and pantalooned legs crossed at the ankles , but the expression on her face was bored and haughty . |
| 24 | She sat at her desk as usual , her face illuminated by the cheap reading light beside her . |
| 25 | Philippa had taken her black kerchief off and twisted it around her fingers as she sat at Lee 's feet . |
| 26 | Every lunchtime she watched her three male partners in Exeter-based accountancy firm Honey Perriam disappear out of the door and up the road to the local snooker club , while she sat at her desk , nibbling her sandwich . |
| 27 | She sat at the edge of the cockpit , curled her legs into the warm shelter of the jacket , then hunched down into the thick collar so that all I could see of her face was her enormous , moon-silvered and lemur-like eyes beneath the pale gleam of her short bright hair . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | She sat at the table with a shrug , the green eyes troubled . |
| 30 | She sat at the feet of Wyatt . |