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 ’ .
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