Example sentences of "sit at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The box also has a sloping front making it easier to use when sat at a desk . |
| 2 | Snizort , on his own account , offered the Twelve Knights who had sat at a round table so that no one of them should be at its head and no one at its foot . |
| 3 | A tall woman of about forty , who had sat at the back , slipped away without speaking to anyone . |
| 4 | He turned up at a party one night having just managed to get back from Italy where he 'd been supposed to be studying and it came out that he 'd been to Rome , too , and had actually met her father and knew their story — better than she did — and had sat at the feet of the Marchesa Giulia . |
| 5 | This was the first time Minton had sat at the wheel throughout the entire journey and his ineptitude was such that , after repeated jolts and much stalling , Norman saw they would get nowhere unless he took over . |
| 6 | Her mother had sat at the crowded dinner table , drinking steadily and smoking and speculating aloud on why her daughter had married costive Brian . |
| 7 | He remembered all the nights when his sisters had sat at the end of his bed and sobbed their hearts out over some man . |
| 8 | Many are the times me wife and I have sat at the table with a large sheet of graph paper and worked it all out , only to find that either my ruler 's idea of an inch does n't tally with the real thing , or the width of a pencil line on the plan actually equates to a foot in real life . |
| 9 | Well I mean the motion actually has been moved , I do take the point , I mean it 's a fair point , but erm not sure where John 's sat sat at the back , yes |
| 10 | I pulled out the stool which Billy must have sat at the desk on , and began to rifle through things in no particular order . |
| 11 | They 're both sat at the , the back of the hall , would you extend a very warn welcome colleagues . |
| 12 | Subsequently the student 's study is devoted to Chemistry , on which written examinations are sat at the end of the third year . |
| 13 | Swear when he was sat at the top of the stairs shivering he looked so thin . |
| 14 | was she sat at the bottom you know |
| 15 | ‘ Often as he sat in Davin 's rooms in Grantham Street , wondering at his friend 's well made boots that flanked the wall pair by pair , and repeating for his friend 's simple ear the verses and cadences of others which with the veils of his own longing dejection , the rude pheoboric mind of his listener had drawn his mind towards it and flung it back again , drawing it by a quiet inbred courtesy of attention , or by a quaint turn of Old English speech , or by the force of its delight in rude bodily skills , for Davin had sat at the feet of Michael Cussack the game , repelling it swiftly and suddenly by a grossness of intelligence , or by a bluntness of feeling , or by a dull stare of terror in the eyes , the terror of sole of starving Irish village in which the curfew was still a nightly fear . |
| 16 | This was essentially a room for transacting business , though if Fournier 's picture is reliable , the Emperor seems to have sat at an inconvenient height at his desk in a small chair , covered in green plush , so low that once seated in it , writing must have been difficult . |
| 17 | The youth is sitting at a little distance , his shepherd 's pipe in his mouth ; there is a charming simplicity in his dress and appearance ; he has a fine head . |
| 18 | She stepped forward and discovered , sitting at a desk which stood the right way up , a small dark man . |
| 19 | We get £28 a week whether we are sitting at a machine all day or operating heavy presses . |
| 20 | She was sitting at a table in the recreation room with her relatives round her . |
| 21 | There 's a man and a woman sitting at a table by the window , and I watch them for a bit . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He was sitting at a carefully chosen table with the magnificence of Princes Street stretching out through the window behind him . |
| 24 | Sometimes they would come and lunch or dine in my hotel , sitting at a table next to ours . |
| 25 | It was so much more businesslike to spread out needlework or write letters sitting at a table . |
| 26 | Sitting at a table sipping champagne is club owner Lips Manlis ( Paul Sorvino ) , a hood with muscle one of those leftovers from Prohibition days who , despite his fancy clothes and expensive cigars , remains a lug . |
| 27 | There were a couple of people already in there , sitting at a table near the counter . |
| 28 | She was sitting at a littered table with two noisy West Indians in colourful pullovers and a jaded , almost middle-aged fat lady with a fur coat . |
| 29 | When they arrived the place was empty — — it was early evening — except for ‘ two street toughs in camel-hair coats ’ sitting at a table ; ‘ and they were fairly easy to distinguish , and I think we walked up and asked them if they were — and — , and they said yes . ’ |
| 30 | He was not sitting at a piano . |