Example sentences of "[verb] at the kitchen table " in BNC.
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| 1 | Laura was ironing at the kitchen table , John sitting at the other end of the table with a bottle and glass in front of him . |
| 2 | Seated at the kitchen table , he began the long , tedious task of hacksawing all but eight inches off the barrels of the President 's twelve-gauge . |
| 3 | So she hurried downstairs to fix herself some breakfast — and almost stopped in her tracks at the sight of the figure who was seated at the kitchen table . |
| 4 | Slumping at the kitchen table , she stared blankly ahead of her . |
| 5 | She had expected to find them both still in bed , and was surprised by the noises from the kitchen , but she poked her head round the door and saw Maggie sitting at the kitchen table eating Weetabix in a reassuringly healthy way . |
| 6 | Meanwhile Maggie stayed sitting at the kitchen table . |
| 7 | He was sitting at the kitchen table , wearing one of Buddie 's shirts and sipping cocoa from a large cup , when his nanny , Buddie 's mam , arrived at the house . |
| 8 | So he was sitting at the kitchen table eating his plate of beans when Donald walked in . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Peter had heard all this , sitting at the kitchen table with a cup of tea , and a sandwich made for him by Anna to sustain him to the far side of compline . |
| 11 | Janine was now sitting at the kitchen table smoking a cigarette . |
| 12 | They were still sitting at the kitchen table . |
| 13 | Leo was sitting at the kitchen table , his large frame almost dwarfing the little wooden chair , arms folded across his massive chest so that it pulled the material of his shirt impossibly tight . |
| 14 | The house was quiet , no sign of Matey 's bustling presence , and when she walked into the kitchen , taking off her shabby black hat , pulling the hat pins out of her abundant hair , she found Dr Neil , sitting at the kitchen table , his tea before him , quite alone . |
| 15 | Martin Bean was sitting at the kitchen table . |
| 16 | Rachel 's opportunity to speak to her parents came on Saturday morning after the community nurse had arrived and was tending to Jennifer in her room and she and her parents were sitting at the kitchen table . |
| 17 | Teleworkers can operate at the kitchen table with a couple of filing cabinets tucked under it but most prefer to use a separate room they can shut the door on at the end of the day . |
| 18 | John feels better , so he comes down to sit at the kitchen table and chat . |
| 19 | Ryan was lounging at the kitchen table , and she halted in shock . |
| 20 | Not yesterday , Peter thought grimly , as he stood at the kitchen table laying the tea tray with his mother 's china ; but certainly last week or the week before . |
| 21 | When she 'd finished he sat at the kitchen table , watching her getting his tea ready , brooding . |
| 22 | Now he sat at the kitchen table with the worm-cake before him and the taste of nausea already on his tongue . |
| 23 | They sat at the kitchen table sipping tea , waiting . |
| 24 | I sat at the kitchen table , staring at the blind white blankness in front of me , and slowly , like a clear spring welling up from the common earth , the poem rose and spread and filled me , unstoppable as flood water , technique unknotting even as it ran , like snags rolled away on the flood . |
| 25 | He sat at the kitchen table . |
| 26 | She spooned four heaped spoonfuls of sugar into it and some condensed milk and sat at the kitchen table . |
| 27 | Bleakly , he sat at the kitchen table eating spaghetti bolognaise out of a tin . |
| 28 | They sat at the kitchen table with the manuscript between them . |
| 29 | After making the tea she sat at the kitchen table to drink it , and was still sitting there when dawn broke . |
| 30 | Catriona Stewart sells her patch boxes to some of the most exclusive shops in the country , yet she still works at the kitchen table ‘ with meals , toys and people all around ’ . |