Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] sit at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ! |
| 2 | Hari made tea and sat at the table , her hands curled around the warmth of the cup . |
| 3 | I sat by the fire and read the file twice , then I went back into the kitchen , made myself some more tea and a chicken sandwich and sat at the table , eating the sandwich and thinking about things . |
| 4 | Greg went out on the course with Laura about 11 PM and sat at the bleachers on the 18th with a bottle of champagne while he went over his round again . |
| 5 | He comes to the bar and sits at the table there by the tree . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Come and have a drink , ’ said Cormack , and they moved into the bar and sat at the fixed tables and watched the glasses slide from rim to rim . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It may look good when you are standing , but if you reveal acres of thigh when sitting at a business meeting , you 'll never be taken seriously . |
| 9 | It may look good when you are standing , but if you reveal acres of thigh when sitting at a business meeting , you 'll never be taken seriously . |
| 10 | Our Lord left this earthly scene to occupy his throne and to sit at the Father 's table . |
| 11 | She spooned four heaped spoonfuls of sugar into it and some condensed milk and sat at the kitchen table . |
| 12 | The bartender , squat and ugly with one white eye , wore an apron and soiled shirt and sat at a high stool reading a newspaper . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ Not only the members of the small governing class but every squire , tradesman and farmer who could afford to modernize or rebuild his house , even the parson , deputy of Christ , lived behind a façade which was conceived in the terms of a Classical Order , entered his home through a doorway deriving from the portico of a pagan shrine and sat at a hearth which resembled a miniature triumphal arch or an altar to the Lares . ’ |
| 15 | People started coming into the dining room and sitting at the tables regardless of the fact that we were still in the station . |
| 16 | Then he got pen and writing pad and sat at the table . |
| 17 | Athelstan went into the nave and sat at the base of a pillar , legs crossed , whilst he stared up at the high altar behind the rood screen . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | A lady with a drained face wrapped in a nylon scarf and sitting at a table near by glanced up with a scowl . |
| 20 | Benjamin covered the woman 's face with a cloth and sat at the table . |
| 21 | She filled her plate and sat at a table by a window . |
| 22 | With only a little imagination we can see the gene as sitting at the centre of a radiating web of extended phenotypic power . |