Example sentences of "i sit at [art] " in BNC.

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1 When I write biographies , I sit at a large kitchen table with a wide surface on which books and papers can be laid , essential for checking quotations or references .
2 Gordon and I sit at a table as the old snowys sup their milk stouts and get ready to cross the road to the theatre , where several stars of television are about to perform the fabulous musical My Fair Lady .
3 In any case , I sit at the stall during daytime . ’
4 Before I go to the supermarket , I usually stop off for a drink ; I sit at the bar and watch the real world go by .
5 I sat at a table in the window and drank a filtre .
6 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 .
7 I sat at the front of the coach , next to the driver .
8 In any case it would be better if I sat at the table , the light was better there and I should not get lazy .
9 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 .
10 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 !
11 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 .
12 I sat at the open window and looked out on to the purple dark .
13 I SAT AT THE BAR of the Late Nite Lounge , watching the floor show .
14 Back in my room , I sat at the desk and considered .
15 I sat at the table we used to use and tried to think what I really believed .
16 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 ’ .
17 But something kept me sitting at the desk .
18 and when ever anybody talks of fish it 's just me sitting at the table from dinner time and then she
19 fish to me was my mother making me sit at a
20 Today I asked him to bind me and gag me and let me sit at the foot of the cellar steps with the door out open .
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