Example sentences of "[noun sg] sit at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | LIFESPAN always gives an immediate response to a user interaction , but not all the options are handled while the user sits at the terminal . |
| 2 | Monie , whose side sit at the top of Division One , revealed : ‘ We 've never been at the top so early . |
| 3 | It was developed specifically for the larger urban workshops and consists of an adjustable loom with a device which , by altering the tension on the warp strands , shifts the completed work to the rear of the loom , allowing the weaver to sit at the same level throughout the entire rug-making process . |
| 4 | Another , indeterminate — but male — figure sits at the foot of a street lamp , among bollards near Le Sueur 's equestrian statue of Charles I. To the left of the sculptured pedestal of the statue is the afterimage of a third figure — silhouetted against the awning of a shop : the transparent hat , head and shoulders of another cab-driver . |
| 5 | And so er , they changed hats , when they get there , and the chauffeur 's introduced a as the professor , goes on the platform , and of course the professor sits at the back of the room with the chauffeur 's hat . |
| 6 | Ace inched along the lip of metal beside the stanchion and found the Dalek Killer sitting at the end of the girder , his legs dangling over the drop . |
| 7 | The President sat at a plain wooden desk to the right of the door through to the front room . |
| 8 | The President sat at the table . |
| 9 | The president sat at the head of the long mahogany table . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Now the little girl sits at a small table in the cellar , the playing cards , Ludo and Monopoly set aside , as snipers ' bullets smack into the building and an grenades drop into the street . |
| 12 | His study Sally ( the lady sits at a table and looks straight ahead at the viewer ) possesses painterly values of real distinction . |
| 13 | Now the child sits at the computer screen . |
| 14 | ‘ The answer to both your questions is yes , ’ she told the girl sitting at a long table on the far side of the room . |
| 15 | ‘ All right , Rachel , ’ said the girl sitting at the dressing-table , powdering her creamy white shoulders and throat . |
| 16 | At this there was a loud outburst of laughter , and everyone looked at a girl sitting at the back , who , scarlet in the face , ran out of the room , sobbing . |
| 17 | Leaving the boy sitting at the table , he went back to his desk and phoned up to Kate . |
| 18 | Inside the two guards of the Prince 's retinue sat at a table , much the worse for drink . |
| 19 | After a lifetime of university teaching I have ceased to believe that the desire to sit at the feet of many masters is a powerful motive with the majority of wandering scholars . |
| 20 | Can Grandma sit at the back with me ? |
| 21 | The new Fiat Croma Turbo sits at the peak of the Italian manufacturer 's range at £19 , 249 . |
| 22 | These jettison the shared medium of Ethernet in favour of a star-shaped configuration in which each networked device sits at the end of its own private Ethernet segment , where it gets the benefit of the whole 10Mbps . |
| 23 | This means that , to an author sitting at the keyboard of , say , an Apple Macintosh , the biggest of printing presses has become no harder to instruct than a laser-printer down the corridor . |
| 24 | On our last night we dined on fresh local fish in the Club taverna sitting at a table close to the water 's edge . |
| 25 | An image of your PC keyboard sits at the top of the screen and around the edges are a variety of indicators for accuracy and speed . |
| 26 | Was silly old Eli sitting at the wrong gate ? |
| 27 | Observation of operator performance within many high technology systems reveals nothing more than a person sitting at a desk scanning various kinds of displays at intervals and just occasionally picking up a telephone , making a note in a log-book or manipulating a control . |
| 28 | " Table meal " is defined by s.139(1) as meaning a meal eaten by a person sitting at a table or other structure which serves the purpose of a table and is not used for the service of refreshments for consumption by persons not seated at a table or structure serving the purpose of a table , which definition repeats the definition given by the 1962 Act . |
| 29 | A system where the user presses a series of buttons without thought and gets exactly what he needs ( rather than what he at that stage thinks he wants ) is efficient but not entirely educational , any more than one so difficult that the user could only throw himself at the mercy of the person sitting at the reader 's adviser desk . |
| 30 | Whitlock looked at his wife sitting at an angle to the doorway , her face in profile . |