1.   A group of students sat around the table chatting.

2.   The experts should have made stronger protests while the working group was still sitting.

3.   Here and there sat groups of army officers in baggy trousers and boots, with enamel medals on their chests.

4.   Below the screen, oblivious of the carnage, sat a group of downtowners radiating Guerlain and Old Spice and mixing with real people.

5.   Family groups sat on the grass eating picnics, a band played, couples danced.

6.   Another group of men sits around a conference table at the Boston offices of the Massachusetts Coalition Against Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence.

7.   As she spoke, two separate groups sat across from each other on the lower floor benches, following the spiels of red-sashed guides.

8.   At a middle table, another group sits tapping away on laptops, their wires curling among documents and Burger King bags like a nest of snakes.

9.   At the funeral last week, the group of regulars sat in the pews under the statue of St. Thomas.