be at one's desk

He would be back at a desk for the next five years.

Looked to me like you'd been sitting at a desk.

The older man sat down at a desk and began to read from a book, a very old one.

He sat at a desk in a room set up as an office.

With the rest of the building dark around him, a man worked alone at a desk.

She sat at a desk but seemed to have little work to do.

The man in the house was at a desk, writing.

He was an action kind of guy who'd been working at a desk too long.

No, his job had always been at a desk, looking over important information.

More often than not, he would probably be at his desk, reading instead.