Example sentences of "[modal v] sit at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the first floor one might sit at a table overlooking the Bay while enjoying a Swanage lobster salad or a delicious cream tea . |
| 2 | I 'll sit at the back probably , in the back corner there . |
| 3 | You kids can sit there and we 'll sit at the table . |
| 4 | No I 'll sit at the back . |
| 5 | his beard and everything to a T. He 'd sit at the top of the table , have his stiff white serviette tucked into his waistcoat , and he 's lifted that carving knife and fork until — you sat there and you never said a word . |
| 6 | You 'd sit at the gate for ages in , in the hope that the road would be clear as well . |
| 7 | When it mattered , Leonard was a learner ; he could sit at a man 's feet and absorb completely . |
| 8 | I wish I could sit at the table and help cut up Annie 's food like I used to , and we 'd have crackers and we 'd wear those paper hats and have them little prezzies from inside the crackers . |
| 9 | The girls said it was the room with the round window that faced down the town and that Eve could sit at the window and watch everyone and where they went and who they were with . |
| 10 | And you know yesterday she had the nerve to ask me if she could sit at the end of our table . |
| 11 | A London grandmother was particularly troublesome because of her drinking sprees , but her granddaughter was expected to clean her front doorsteps every Saturday : ‘ the old bugger used to sit at the window and watch me clean 'em . |
| 12 | There used to be a long table and the head used to sit at the end of this table and so to see that you did n't leave off working she used to get the table cloth and always be pulling this table straight . |
| 13 | He took the notebook with him ; sometimes he would sit at a desk or table and write , losing any idea of time or place , roused later by the discovery that his leg had gone numb or he had cramp in his foot . |
| 14 | While he talked to a girl , she would sit at the bar and talk to the nearest man . |
| 15 | She had come to look forward to the intervals between tenants , for at such times she would sit at the bedroom window that overlooked the street , which sloped swiftly to the main thoroughfare ; and guided by the landmarks of St Dominic 's church and , beyond that , St Ann 's , she could look over the chimney pots and catch a glimpse of the river gleaming between the busy traffic on it . |
| 16 | He would sit at the head of the long table , the various amounts were packed in white paper with the name of the recipient on each . |
| 17 | It would sit at the foot of the sick-bed and , if it gazed at the patient , its eyes would magically absorb the malaise so the man had a renewed chance of life . |
| 18 | She would sit at the piano and sing . |
| 19 | When the kitchen was clean and the children put to bed , Beth and David would go to the sitting room , where he would sit at the circular table , head bent over documents and rent books . |
| 20 | Their king is Aillen mac Midha , and in the past he would sit at the foot of the Palace ramparts , slender and blue-green , and with the chill faery blood of all the sidh in his veins . |
| 21 | When young she admired Victoria de los Angeles and Jusi Bjoerling , but found their singing so moving that ‘ I 'd start to weep , the body can hardly stand it ’ , and so would sit at the back of the hall . |
| 22 | If you were lucky enough to be invited for * Eight at Number Eight' , you would sit at the dining table under the inscrutable gaze of Duncan Grant 's tabby-cat ; this cat was painted at Charleston during the First World War , and bought by the Berkeleys many years later for £75 from the Lefevre Gallery . |
| 23 | At that point in his life , he would sit at the door of a club when he was playing and he would glare at the people who came in . |
| 24 | During the session Sir John May , the inquiry chairman , announced that he would sit at the inquiry with three lay assessors , and that the government had agreed to the granting of immunity from prosecution to witnesses . |
| 25 | At this moment the actual tests which pupils will sit at the end of the key stage are in the process of design . |
| 26 | No it would n't , ca n't , ca n't not at the ground level , it will sit at the top |
| 27 | He may sit at a table , which has to be big enough to spread the garment out on it . |
| 28 | ( 1 ) A smaller , more rapidly tumbling bar may sit at the core of the kiloparsec-scale bar discussed above . |
| 29 | At most Clubs , Pirates can sit at the Captain 's table for an early evening meal , often with free lemonade or mineral water . |
| 30 | You can sit at the table and do them . |