Example sentences of "sitting at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be sitting at the pictures if I could have the money to do it fill time . |
| 2 | ‘ We ca n't work out how he could have killed his wife while he was sitting at the opposite end of the table , ’ said Constable Bewman näively . |
| 3 | Nor are sharing cutlery , sitting at the next desk , going swimming or communal toilets . |
| 4 | Some of the people sitting at the big table did not even raise their eyes . |
| 5 | In the kitchen she found Rodney stirring the contents of two saucepans and Veronica , John and a young man she did not know sitting at the table drinking wine . |
| 6 | The others were sitting at the table . |
| 7 | In the kitchen she found Veronica cooking and Rodney sitting at the table writing a list . |
| 8 | For it 's no use looking to this novel for even a premonition of a cleansed Russia sitting at the feet of Jesus . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She was sitting at the table with her chocolate cooling in the mug between her hands . |
| 11 | She had expected to find them both still in bed , and was surprised by the noises from the kitchen , but she poked her head round the door and saw Maggie sitting at the kitchen table eating Weetabix in a reassuringly healthy way . |
| 12 | Meanwhile Maggie stayed sitting at the kitchen table . |
| 13 | people were coming from all over the country to see her , and anyone sitting at the back of the stalls or the upper circle would not catch a glimpse . |
| 14 | Although he had been fortunate to have been sitting at the back of the coach he received a fractured spine . |
| 15 | The talk would take in all the great political and aesthetic themes : Jean-Paul Sartre would join in , for he would be sitting at the next table : together , artists and intellectuals would conquer life 's essential absurdity ; and from such discussions tomorrow 's painting would be born . |
| 16 | He derived some comfort from Rajiv 's habitual elegance ; wearing a suit , shirt and tie that must have cost two months of his salary as an Assistant Under-Secretary of State , he was sitting at the other side of the large , uncompromising desk that the Department provides for its most senior officials , not a hair out of place and his black eyes alive with amusement . |
| 17 | This means that , to an author sitting at the keyboard of , say , an Apple Macintosh , the biggest of printing presses has become no harder to instruct than a laser-printer down the corridor . |
| 18 | He was banging non-stop around the house all day , bellowing ‘ TELEPHONE ’ when everyone could hear it ring , sitting at the piano without even looking at the keys , and making an excruciating racket . |
| 19 | She turned and saw him still sitting at the table . |
| 20 | When they reached their table , Clarissa carefully failed to notice who was sitting at the next one . |
| 21 | Was silly old Eli sitting at the wrong gate ? |
| 22 | He 's sitting at the gate , watching the school around the corner decant its little boys . |
| 23 | Unsurprisingly , as soon as it opened in April , the Tribeca Bar and Grill became the hottest meal ticket in town , and it 's currently packed out nightly , with a selection of celebs , wannabes , Wall Street suits and star gazers , who can get a perfect view by sitting at the restaurant 's centrepiece , a $15,000 mahogany bar . |
| 24 | He was sitting at the kitchen table , wearing one of Buddie 's shirts and sipping cocoa from a large cup , when his nanny , Buddie 's mam , arrived at the house . |
| 25 | Sitting at the table in North 's office , they communicated by passing notes to each other , even notes that merely inquired when they ought to meet up again . |
| 26 | When I 'd left the horse in the yard and gone in for breakfast I found both Mackie and Sam Yaeger sitting at the table with Tremayne , all of them discussing that day 's racing at Nottingham . |
| 27 | He nodded benevolently at Miss Harker , sitting at the front with white gloves on and a new bonnet . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'll be sitting at the back and I do n't want anybody showing up the firm , asking questions , telling tales , you get my meaning ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ WHEN YOU do comedy you 're not sitting at the grown-ups ’ table , you 're sitting at the children 's table . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ WHEN YOU do comedy you 're not sitting at the grown-ups ’ table , you 're sitting at the children 's table . ’ |