Example sentences of "he sit at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He watched his dejected figure walk past him into the cottage and , after allowing a few minutes to elapse , followed him in and discovered him sitting at the table in the living room , his bag of apples and sandwich lying untouched . |
| 2 | Cowley could see him sitting at the garden table , staring blankly into the distance . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | [ He sits at the table . ] |
| 6 | When she 'd finished he sat at the kitchen table , watching her getting his tea ready , brooding . |
| 7 | Now he sat at the kitchen table with the worm-cake before him and the taste of nausea already on his tongue . |
| 8 | He sat at the kitchen table . |
| 9 | Bleakly , he sat at the kitchen table eating spaghetti bolognaise out of a tin . |
| 10 | As the first years passed , and the courses of lectures did not have to be prepared out of nothing , he sat at the bay window in the sub-warden 's study , looking out towards the cathedral , and started to write his first book . |
| 11 | He sat at the top of the stairs as the news sank in . |
| 12 | Yet soon afterwards he sat at the feet of Jesus |
| 13 | He sat at the head of the table and was served by kneeling courtiers such as might have attended a real prince . |
| 14 | He sat at the head of the table carefully scrutinising the document in front of him as if it were a religious text which he had to examine for scriptural errors . |
| 15 | He sat at the head of the table in his white shirt , beautifully washed by Giovanna , with a silk scarf knotted at the neck , looking handsome and quizzical as he drank Chianti and told the girls about his less lurid divorce cases and more eccentric clients . |
| 16 | He sat at the desk , made some marks on the paper before him , then looked up . |
| 17 | He sat at the desk , a French antique , and took a sheet of notepaper . |
| 18 | He sat at the desk , his head hanging forward on his chest , taking quick drags on his cigarette . |
| 19 | The mail arrived early and he opened his letters as he sat at the breakfast table . |
| 20 | Cranston had already dismissed the poem , but when he read the indenture he sat at the foot of the bed stupefied , the parchment held loosely between his fingers . |
| 21 | The prince was visibly moved by the bravery of Bronwen Vickers , 33 , a mother of two , from Knutsford , Cheshire , as he sat at the foot of her bed at Warrington General Hospital . |
| 22 | He was visibly moved by the bravery of Bronwen Vickers , 33 , a mother of two from Knutsford , Cheshire , as he sat at the foot of her bed at Warrington General Hospital . |
| 23 | The lights went down and he sat at the back , trying to gauge the reaction of a packed audience . |
| 24 | Finally they found a canvas and Modi seated Indenbaum at one end of the long narrow studio while he sat at the other . |
| 25 | Lee had risen and moved to where he sat at the table and was showing him the completed unicorn 's head . |
| 26 | He sat at the table at the upstairs window , as Montaine used to sit in her room in the smallholding , overlooking a view much like the one she loved over heathland towards the forest . |
| 27 | The raw , rough feeling in his voice was so obvious that Julia forgot all her determined restraint of the previous evening and put her arms around him as he sat at the table , laying her head on his . |
| 28 | ‘ What 's it all mean ? ’ asked Lewis , as he sat at the table , with a pint of Brakspear for Morse and a half of the same for himself . |
| 29 | He sat at the end of Jitka 's bed , while she tried to lead her sisters in their song about St Wenceslas . |
| 30 | He sat at the side of the road and surveyed the sun-parched land before him . |