And significantly, her boss and colleague sit in on the trial, revealing their emotional investment in what's at stake.

One evening Atkins and his colleague were sitting at the factory exit.

Eryd Bench and his colleague sat in a small waiting chamber at the foot of Stoneheart's war tower.

"He's ready to act on a situation and make a difference, while his colleagues sit around and think about it."

She was on the front row behind the defense lawyers; a colleague sat a few feet down scanning a newspaper as the jury settled in.

"When new jobs come up, your colleagues are sitting there in front of the top brass's faces, and you're off in never-never land."

A colleague of the judge's, it turned out, was sitting right behind him.

This colleague had been commissioned to write a book about modern dance, but was claustrophobic and therefore could not sit through shows.

All across the House chamber, my colleagues sat in bipartisan groups.

While she'd been trapped in that hospital, her colleagues from the homicide unit hadn't been sitting idle.