Example sentences of "[conj] sitting at " in BNC.
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| 1 | George Kidner came to me in a great state of mind because he has been asked to appear before a committee consisting of C. Bathurst , Peto & C. Mills & sitting at Central Office . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Her favourite was listening to jazz , either live at one of her regular haunts , Ali 's Alley or the Village Vanguard , or sitting at home with the headphones on , listening to the likes of David Sanborn or the Yellowjackets . |
| 4 | A few years ago , the paedophile , strolling through the shopping mall , or sitting at a quiet table in Salad Binge or Just Desserts , might have coordinated his assignations — his intergenerational trysts — by mobile telephone . |
| 5 | Schooldays , for Wigglesworth , were not , curiously , filled with concert-going , or sitting at the baton-end of the great . |
| 6 | But Jan said it was better working than sitting at home watching the dust settle , even if it was working with a bunch of loonies . |
| 7 | People started coming into the dining room and sitting at the tables regardless of the fact that we were still in the station . |
| 8 | Made of stardust , and sitting at the centre of the Universe . ’ |
| 9 | A lady with a drained face wrapped in a nylon scarf and sitting at a table near by glanced up with a scowl . |
| 10 | I 'd never heard of work till that moment , and there I was thinking of myself dressed in trousers and sitting at a desk with a ledger . |
| 11 | He looked at her derisively and left her to it , drinking the coffee he had made and sitting at the table . |
| 12 | because , you know , you will see a couple of doctors wandering around and sitting at the desk |
| 13 | I mean , what we 're trying to do in the visual arts is to spend what limited money we have to produce a better situation for the visual artist and for the public who gets pleasure and enlightenment from visual arts than exists at the moment , so rather than just prop up the status quo , which is what is would be very easy to do if one just kept the pot boiling so to speak by giving a few grants to artists here and sitting at the centre of a spider 's web in Tunbridge Wells waiting for applications to come in to us and then responding . |
| 14 | Two of the couples were obviously married , and in their early fifties , but sitting at opposite ends of the length of the table were a silver-haired woman still showing some of the beauty that had helped make her a famous actress in the forties ; and a broad-shouldered young man . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | All you have to do while sitting at home or at work , or on a train or bus , is to tense up the arm and leg muscles , then let them go , saying to yourself ‘ I am relaxed ’ . |
| 17 | Later , while sitting at the kitchen table making a special list of people to help with Easter flowers , and a subsidiary list of those who might be approached to donate Easter lilies , Anna and her conscience had a little tussle . |
| 18 | Left : From Monica 's favourite spot — her writing room — she can look out at the garden while sitting at her desk |
| 19 | ‘ Yet you expect me to conduct the case and arrive at decisions , even order an arrest , while sitting at a desk . ’ |
| 20 | With only a little imagination we can see the gene as sitting at the centre of a radiating web of extended phenotypic power . |
| 21 | When sitting at the breakfast table you may not actually measure the distance between your hand and the coffee cup , but you seldom miss . |
| 22 | He seemed to hang suspended above the worshippers , his two tiny arms held out in front of him , and he was as still and quiet and calm as he had been when sitting at the Wilsons ' table or resting , alone , at the back of Class 1 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |