Example sentences of "[conj] sit at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few years ago , the paedophile , strolling through the shopping mall , or sitting at a quiet table in Salad Binge or Just Desserts , might have coordinated his assignations — his intergenerational trysts — by mobile telephone . |
| 2 | ‘ I think I 'd rather climb ladders than sit at a checkout . ’ |
| 3 | It is a relief to me to take up this pen and sit at a table and endeavour to sort out what I feel pressing in upon me and to know that if sense can be made of it you will make it . |
| 4 | A lady with a drained face wrapped in a nylon scarf and sitting at a table near by glanced up with a scowl . |
| 5 | I 'd never heard of work till that moment , and there I was thinking of myself dressed in trousers and sitting at a desk with a ledger . |
| 6 | I invite her to come and sit at a table with Kurowski and me , but she prefers to remain on duty at the bar . |
| 7 | ‘ Not only the members of the small governing class but every squire , tradesman and farmer who could afford to modernize or rebuild his house , even the parson , deputy of Christ , lived behind a façade which was conceived in the terms of a Classical Order , entered his home through a doorway deriving from the portico of a pagan shrine and sat at a hearth which resembled a miniature triumphal arch or an altar to the Lares . ’ |
| 8 | And so I decided to patronise the famous Café de la Paix ; but having little money and no head for alcohol , limited myself to ordering Perrier before lunch , and sat at a table on the pavement , watching the world go by . |
| 9 | The two women walked into the busy beach bar , ordered drinks , and sat at a table overlooking the sea . |
| 10 | She filled her plate and sat at a table by a window . |
| 11 | ‘ Colder than this , ’ Schellenberg told him as they moved out through French windows and sat at a table on the pleasant terrace . |
| 12 | The bartender , squat and ugly with one white eye , wore an apron and soiled shirt and sat at a high stool reading a newspaper . |
| 13 | Some , like the Stand-off Land Attack Missile , SLAM , or the Israeli-produced Have Nap , can be ‘ flown ’ by pilots looking through the missile 's television eye , while sitting at a safe remove in aircraft . |
| 14 | ‘ Yet you expect me to conduct the case and arrive at decisions , even order an arrest , while sitting at a desk . ’ |
| 15 | The box also has a sloping front making it easier to use when sat at a desk . |
| 16 | It may look good when you are standing , but if you reveal acres of thigh when sitting at a business meeting , you 'll never be taken seriously . |
| 17 | It may look good when you are standing , but if you reveal acres of thigh when sitting at a business meeting , you 'll never be taken seriously . |