Example sentences of "[verb] the table [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sophie lowered the table and the two of them hoisted the surprised dog on to it and raised the table to a convenient height . |
| 2 | Ginny laid the table while Barbara broke four eggs in a bowl and whisked them vigorously . |
| 3 | Then she cooked pasta and shredded chicken and chopped fruit and nuts and sliced black bread and made beetroot soup and prepared sour cream and a cheese board and polished wine glasses and put butter in lemon-coloured dishes and made salad dressings and laid the table and set a serviette decorated with a Groucho Marx face by the side of each place . |
| 4 | He began thumping the table and insisting the paper install experienced management . |
| 5 | Wham ! goes the table and thirty feet of hors d'oeuvres are on the floor . |
| 6 | Try to keep still and avoid knocking the table or microphone or shuffling your chair or papers . |
| 7 | Decorate the table and dishes with little flags , coloured umbrellas and a few jelly cases filled with pretty coloured sweets . |
| 8 | The objective was not outright dominance , it was posturing for who would head the table and set the agenda at the peace conference . |
| 9 | I had just come out of one of my planning meetings and I metaphorically banged the table and said ‘ I know exactly what you should do . ’ |
| 10 | After we had settled down , brother Jack stood up and banged the table and called for order for Dad to say grace . |
| 11 | You know so I 'll I 'll do the table before I |
| 12 | Well you , you can clear the table and put a few more photos in the album . |
| 13 | er we can clear the table if you wish to point anything out to us , erm , or if you prefer to er er to wait and hear what |
| 14 | Lori dominated the table and Travis urged her on with a few well-chosen words . |
| 15 | There are , of course , other power tool tables which will perform both tasks together at the outset , but the 750 gives you the option of not adding the table if you do n't need it , and meanwhile , having the versatility of an extremely useful work and saw bench for clamping , gripping and marking . |
| 16 | Do n't riffle through papers , kick the table or drum fingers — all are sounds which are picked up by the microphone and have to be edited out . |
| 17 | The management er clearly desired to implement the scheme er with the minimum amount of frustration er to anyone , although you 've got to understand that as an engineer working a , a big milling machine for example , if someone comes along and said er , you know you could stand that job on its side different to what you 've got it at the moment , and you could do two faces instead of one you know , by turning the table and you know , by use of various tools er decrease the time factor , there was the , it was a fear that our members may work themselves out of a job . |
| 18 | The depressing knowledge caused a sudden desire in her to leave the table and to get away from the sight of Doreen gazing soulfully at Silas . |
| 19 | But the winegrower , the sheep farmer , the cowherd , the undertaker , the teacher , or the cobbler would grip the table and dig in . |
| 20 | Copy the table and put these numbers in their places . |
| 21 | I set the table but I forgot about the water . |
| 22 | CHOOSE plates , cutlery and crystal and set the table if practical , leaving all the glasses upside down . |
| 23 | Afterwards she helped to clear the table and to carry the pots through into a lean-to kitchen , the room in which they had eaten being the best parlour . |
| 24 | At the end of the last line only , tap Enter to finish the table as one paragraph ( see Task 20 ) |
| 25 | She circled the table while her progress was marked from the darkness under the sideboard by four white crescents of dog eye . |
| 26 | He would become so uncomfortable that he would eventually leave the table and make some more coffee ! |
| 27 | ‘ I remember my diamond ring scratching the table as he pressed against me , ’ the woman said . |
| 28 | Some do , er the rise and fall type of fitting over a dining table where when you 're er , er having dinner you 'd have erm it down to about what not more than twelve inches above the table er so that it lit the table but did n't shine in your eyes , erm some people leave it like that all the time , other people having had a meal lift er it up , erm I think the main thing about the , er adjustable fly and fall is that erm , it 's there for , as you want it , if you 're trying to find a meal you 've lost on the floor well then you pull it down to floor level really . |
| 29 | ‘ She wo n't confess it , ’ Lord Grubb said , hectoring the table but still powerfully giving the impression of talking sotto voce to himself . |
| 30 | After the meal , the waiter cleared the table and brought them coffee . |