Example sentences of "sits at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She sits at the marriage banquet , apparently in a cafe , and the harlequin has just presented her with a bouquet . |
| 2 | She sits at the table and smiles , asking firmly for a solo-brandy and coke in separate glasses . |
| 3 | Amid these cliches , sly slanders and unavoidable realities , Ann Jones sits at the net and ponders . |
| 4 | He also threatened to call in the receiver to Mr Bond 's master corporation and to his private family company , Dallhold Investments — the firm which sits at the top of the whole debt-laden business structure . |
| 5 | Amid these cliches , sly slanders and unavoidable realities , Ann Jones sits at the net and ponders . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | At his farm in Berrien Springs , Michigan , Ali sits at the end of a table in the living-room . |
| 8 | Vic sits at the head of the table , in his shirtsleeves , half a cup of cold coffee at his right hand . |
| 9 | In most shallow wells the pumping mechanism sits at the well head ( which allows easy maintenance ) , and water is ‘ sucked up ’ through a rising main . |
| 10 | Now the child sits at the computer screen . |
| 11 | THE NUCLEUS sits at the heart of the atom , its constituent protons and neutrons bound together by the strong nuclear force . |
| 12 | A line of girls sits at the bar , ready at the jerk of a head or the flick of a finger to minister to the solitary Somerset Maughams at every table with drinks , smiles and conversation in carefully-broken Americanisms . |
| 13 | It is useful to sit at the corner of a small table ( a card table is excellent ) whilst your discussion partner sits at the opposite comer — ensuring a one-to-one contact and leaving space between you . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | For example the owner of a motor vehicle can be said to use it where he sits at the side of the driver , who is not his employee and the vehicle is being used for his purpose ( Cobb v Williams [ 1973 ] RTR 1 13 ) . |
| 16 | These jettison the shared medium of Ethernet in favour of a star-shaped configuration in which each networked device sits at the end of its own private Ethernet segment , where it gets the benefit of the whole 10Mbps . |
| 17 | Since the quadrupling of the defence budget in 1950–55 , the president 's main source of power has come from the fact that he sits at the head of a great ‘ national security state ’ — to adopt the phrase of Daniel Patrick Moynihan , a Democratic senator . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The new Fiat Croma Turbo sits at the peak of the Italian manufacturer 's range at £19 , 249 . |
| 20 | Another , indeterminate — but male — figure sits at the foot of a street lamp , among bollards near Le Sueur 's equestrian statue of Charles I. To the left of the sculptured pedestal of the statue is the afterimage of a third figure — silhouetted against the awning of a shop : the transparent hat , head and shoulders of another cab-driver . |
| 21 | Between national curriculum levels and general skills and abilities as it sits at the moment ? |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | An image of your PC keyboard sits at the top of the screen and around the edges are a variety of indicators for accuracy and speed . |
| 24 | [ He sits at the table . ] |
| 25 | In a classroom it can give you the students ' view of the teacher , it can give you the teacher 's view of the students or it can be an observer which sits at the side of the class and looks from one to the other . |
| 26 | Howard sits at the breakfast table with the card in his hand , giggling over it . |
| 27 | One example of an organism possessed of such a rather basic nervous system is the tiny , pond-living hydra ( Fig 7.3 ) , which sits at the bottom of ponds and streams attached to rocks or water plants and waving its tentacles above its mouth . |
| 28 | If it sits at the bottom of your belly , glowering like a smouldering fire , threatening to explode suddenly at any time and paralyse you ? |
| 29 | Bogle himself sits at the desk by the door and takes the money . |
| 30 | He takes his time strolling over , and when he gets here he sits at the far end of the bench like he does n't know me . |