Example sentences of "sit at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The box also has a sloping front making it easier to use when sat at a desk . |
| 2 | Swear when he was sat at the top of the stairs shivering he looked so thin . |
| 3 | He turned up at a party one night having just managed to get back from Italy where he 'd been supposed to be studying and it came out that he 'd been to Rome , too , and had actually met her father and knew their story — better than she did — and had sat at the feet of the Marchesa Giulia . |
| 4 | ‘ Often as he sat in Davin 's rooms in Grantham Street , wondering at his friend 's well made boots that flanked the wall pair by pair , and repeating for his friend 's simple ear the verses and cadences of others which with the veils of his own longing dejection , the rude pheoboric mind of his listener had drawn his mind towards it and flung it back again , drawing it by a quiet inbred courtesy of attention , or by a quaint turn of Old English speech , or by the force of its delight in rude bodily skills , for Davin had sat at the feet of Michael Cussack the game , repelling it swiftly and suddenly by a grossness of intelligence , or by a bluntness of feeling , or by a dull stare of terror in the eyes , the terror of sole of starving Irish village in which the curfew was still a nightly fear . |
| 5 | was she sat at the bottom you know |
| 6 | A tall woman of about forty , who had sat at the back , slipped away without speaking to anyone . |
| 7 | Well I mean the motion actually has been moved , I do take the point , I mean it 's a fair point , but erm not sure where John 's sat sat at the back , yes |
| 8 | I pulled out the stool which Billy must have sat at the desk on , and began to rifle through things in no particular order . |
| 9 | He remembered all the nights when his sisters had sat at the end of his bed and sobbed their hearts out over some man . |
| 10 | Subsequently the student 's study is devoted to Chemistry , on which written examinations are sat at the end of the third year . |
| 11 | This was the first time Minton had sat at the wheel throughout the entire journey and his ineptitude was such that , after repeated jolts and much stalling , Norman saw they would get nowhere unless he took over . |
| 12 | Many are the times me wife and I have sat at the table with a large sheet of graph paper and worked it all out , only to find that either my ruler 's idea of an inch does n't tally with the real thing , or the width of a pencil line on the plan actually equates to a foot in real life . |
| 13 | One day , as he was pushing his tinker 's cart round Bedford , he came across three or four poor women , sitting at a door in the sun , and was struck by the confident way in which they spoke of their salvation . |
| 14 | ‘ I just keep coming in and see someone sitting at a computer not moving , and I wonder , should the computer be there in lieu of the person ? ’ says one broker |
| 15 | One leading broker admits , ‘ I just keep coming in and see someone sitting at a computer not moving , and I wonder should the computer be there in lieu of the person ? ’ |
| 16 | She stepped forward and discovered , sitting at a desk which stood the right way up , a small dark man . |
| 17 | Women may have problems keeping weight down at the time of the menopause and after , and men and businesswomen have their own difficulties if their work involves a good deal of sitting at a desk or car wheel , and giving or receiving hospitality lunches . |
| 18 | It also neutralizes the ill effects of sitting at a desk all day and eating large lunches . |
| 19 | When back pain and arthritis are the problems it can help to take short rests or breaks from a long stint in one position — say sitting at a desk or standing at an ironing-table . |
| 20 | ‘ Sitting at a desk in front of your computer . |
| 21 | Zelma , bless her , who has always regarded her son-in-law as a sort of concierge who somehow manages to throw up the odd masterpiece in between sitting at a desk , gazing uselessly out of the window and making endless messes in her kitchen with his coffee dregs and fag ash , had been popping into the study at fairly regular intervals , with unspecific enquiries . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | This showed him sitting at a desk , pencil in hand : his mother 's vision of what school should be about . |
| 24 | Sitting at a desk working on a book could hardly be more different from battling through a polar blizzard , but it presents a different sort of challenge . |
| 25 | To our right , in the corner , Ali is sitting at a desk , signing pamphlets . |
| 26 | A man was sitting at a desk , typing , another stood by a filing cabinet . |
| 27 | ‘ Yet you expect me to conduct the case and arrive at decisions , even order an arrest , while sitting at a desk . ’ |
| 28 | Conway 's secretary , Marie , was sitting at a desk . |
| 29 | For example , it is very important for a wife who is also a busy mother to learn to speak the local language , but she may have no time for sitting at a desk and making her own drills or doing her own analysis . |
| 30 | ‘ All right , I know you do n't have an ounce more than I do , though you should , sitting at a desk all day . ’ |