Example sentences of "[conj] sit at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Colonel Peter Young was a popular officer , well liked by everyone , always seemed to be of the same temperament , in action , or sitting at the bar in a country inn . |
| 2 | Schooldays , for Wigglesworth , were not , curiously , filled with concert-going , or sitting at the baton-end of the great . |
| 3 | It is this tension between the grandiose themes of cosmology and its mundane workings that sits at the heart of Dennis Overbye 's superb book . |
| 4 | The chance has come in a review conducted by Andrew Large , chairman of the Securities and Investments Board ( SIB ) , the body that sits at the apex of Britain 's regulatory structure . |
| 5 | Their first single ‘ Mystery Train ’ is restructured with bleeps and beats to sound altogether moodier , while ‘ Senses ’ is one of those emotional anthems that sits at the end of the set . |
| 6 | ‘ I think I 'd rather climb ladders than sit at a checkout . ’ |
| 7 | So rather than sit at the counter and do it they they have rooms which you can go to and erm get interviewed |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ Go and sit at the table . |
| 10 | come and sit at the table and wait , come on , put those away |
| 11 | Look we have got special bread now come on and sit at the table with us , |
| 12 | It is the only tram in service where you have to climb up to your seat and sit at an angle of 20 degrees behind two spacemen in the front compartment ! |
| 13 | rack for fucking plates , so I put them away and the best way to do it is if sit at the table , you wash and I 'll dry or I 'll dr you er dry and I 'll wash , well what |
| 14 | well not posters , the horsewatch is a prime example where I wanted to look at setting a format in a particular way , and to sit at the side of either Alf or Tracey well now alter it to that or to that I 'm sure they 'd do it , but nevertheless it 's putting them off their work . |
| 15 | Our Lord left this earthly scene to occupy his throne and to sit at the Father 's table . |
| 16 | ‘ That 's because he enters by the old tower door and sits at the back , where he ca n't be seen , ’ she replied eagerly . |
| 17 | We told them how our oldest member , 91-year-old Mr. Hunt , takes unfailing care of our security , and sits at the hub of the affair providing a whole intelligence service for us as well . |
| 18 | He comes to the bar and sits at the table there by the tree . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | A lady with a drained face wrapped in a nylon scarf and sitting at a table near by glanced up with a scowl . |
| 21 | Made of stardust , and sitting at the centre of the Universe . ’ |
| 22 | I mean , what we 're trying to do in the visual arts is to spend what limited money we have to produce a better situation for the visual artist and for the public who gets pleasure and enlightenment from visual arts than exists at the moment , so rather than just prop up the status quo , which is what is would be very easy to do if one just kept the pot boiling so to speak by giving a few grants to artists here and sitting at the centre of a spider 's web in Tunbridge Wells waiting for applications to come in to us and then responding . |
| 23 | because , you know , you will see a couple of doctors wandering around and sitting at the desk |
| 24 | He looked at her derisively and left her to it , drinking the coffee he had made and sitting at the table . |
| 25 | I invite her to come and sit at a table with Kurowski and me , but she prefers to remain on duty at the bar . |
| 26 | ‘ In the end we asked them to come and sit at the back of the stage , ’ Miss Picon recalled . |
| 27 | the vicar used to come and sit at the back and , you know , they used to do a little turn , you know play in the bands |
| 28 | wanted that old , is it , the rag and bone people , you know , rubbish , and er I suppose somebody taught him and er he , he played in that and er you know did the little towns and the vic the vicar used to come and sit at the back , a seat under against , under the window and watch , perhaps he thought he 'd er get some little co |
| 29 | Oh shall we go and sit at the cafe ? |
| 30 | ‘ Can I come and sit at the table with you when the eggs and bacon are ready ? ’ |