Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] the table " in BNC.
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| 1 | His red beard has grown very long , right through the stone table ; when it has encircled the table three times it will be the time of awakening . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Elke has laid the table for the evening meal and fried the eggs . |
| 4 | Dorothy stopped laying the table for supper and stared at her sister , her blue eyes wide with disbelief . |
| 5 | The chairs were designed to complement the table and represent one set of variations on a chair design that I have been experimenting with for years . |
| 6 | ( Figure 5.10 ) Front and rear wheels are expected to occupy the table simultaneously for a brief period . |
| 7 | It 's a little you would you be careful and stop moving the table . |
| 8 | Mm , Charlotte stop rocking the table darling |
| 9 | She 'd covered the table with a snow-white cloth , and she lit a seven branched olive candelabra . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'll be wanting to lay the table in a minute . ’ |
| 11 | I 'll be wanting to lay the table for |
| 12 | When her granddaughters came they were expected to scrub too : ‘ I 've seen my eldest sister , the minute she went in she was made to scrub the table — and it was white — scrub the floorboards — which were white . ’ |
| 13 | Going to give the table a push that was as hard as I pushed the pen and |
| 14 | Who forgot to clear the table |
| 15 | Ben turned to face the table . |
| 16 | ‘ You were going to lay the table . ’ |
| 17 | I 've got to lay the table for lunch . |
| 18 | She had helped to prepare the table . |
| 19 | He began to hit the table with his hand . |
| 20 | He began thumping the table and insisting the paper install experienced management . |
| 21 | Try to keep still and avoid knocking the table or microphone or shuffling your chair or papers . |
| 22 | They began to set the table , growing relaxed and easy , enjoying the formality of the room , when Moran came in again from the fields . |
| 23 | Silently , Tessa switched the television off and began to clear the table . |
| 24 | Johnson , it seems , began to regale the table concerning some extraordinary creature recently discovered in New South Wales , and began to imitate the animal , the kangaroo . |
| 25 | She placed it within reach of his hand , then got up and began clearing the table . |
| 26 | She got up and began clearing the table . |
| 27 | Jacqueline , starved of toast soldiers , had slid from her chair and , having circled the table , was starting to de-gut the loaf of bread . |
| 28 | Then , like a shoal of fish moving within a net , Rose and the girls started to clear the table , to brush away crumbs , to wash , to dry , to return each thing to its own place , all done with a muted energy ; whispers , jokes , little scolding asides — ‘ No , that goes in the other place ’ or reminisce how they had made the same mistake before in order to soften any harshness in the scold , bending low in apologetic laughter . |
| 29 | He turned from the mirror and started to clear the table . |
| 30 | ‘ She does n't always have to upset the table , though , when she is there , does she ? ’ remarked Henry Tyler in a tone that at least one ambassador had been known to call ‘ eminently reasonable ’ . |