Example sentences of "sit opposite [adj] other " in BNC.
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| 1 | She and Alice had sat opposite each other , across the kitchen table , the teapot between them . |
| 2 | They had sat opposite each other in a compartment crowded with Able Seamen , he watching the darkening fields flying outside the window and Bunny staring down at a single sheet of notepaper , pale blue in colour , which he held on his jigging knee and from whose fold poked a sprig of crab apple in bloom . |
| 3 | But it was to burn again in the candlelit drawing-room where the two sisters sat opposite each other after supper in a warm red glow of port , firelight and reflections from the red velvet curtains drawn against night air . |
| 4 | Barry and Helen sat opposite each other . |
| 5 | Christina and Elaine sat opposite each other across the circular marble-topped table . |
| 6 | They sat opposite each other in the little Covent Garden restaurant they used to patronize two years ago . |
| 7 | I remember that we sat opposite each other — the arrangement I most preferred — so that I could observe evéry modification of his countenance ; and I have to say that never in all our acquaintance had I witnessed such patience and sheer kindness . |
| 8 | I followed with the tray , placed it on a small coffee table by the fire and we sat opposite each other in wingback chairs . |
| 9 | But then , as they sat opposite each other in a crowded Darlington bar , Sue suddenly realised that she was about to lose the man she loved . |