Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] round the table " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was all ending so beautifully : the picnic , and Mr Evans being so nice , and the ring and the knife , and now this last , lovely tea , with faces she loved round the table . |
| 2 | and of course we 've always had a different view about what morals are anyway all of us I mean once again if we went round the table and say you know expand on your moral position , I 'm sure we would get four probably ten actually different viewpoints . |
| 3 | Then we squeezed round the table — Mum , Dad , the bearers , and several neighbours who had been ‘ helpful in her hour of need ’ as they called it . |
| 4 | We crowded round the table , straining our ears for the magic sounds , while Robert adjusted the cat 's whisker . |
| 5 | After supper on the first night we sat round the table in anticipation of the promised induction talk . |
| 6 | They danced round the table , dodging this way and that : ‘ Calm down , Joicey , I was only joking . ’ |
| 7 | He came round the table to help her up . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's easy to be frightened , ’ Frick said as he walked round the table , behind them , their eyes following him . |
| 9 | He scuttled round the table hoping there would be no further genealogical scrutiny . |
| 10 | He went round the table , stepped off the dais and stood looking at all of us . |
| 11 | He looked round the table as if daring anyone to smile . |
| 12 | He looked round the table at Clerkenwell , where they were having a directors ' meeting . |