Example sentences of "[verb] on the table " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was cheering , clapping , stamping on the floor and banging on the tables , as everyone in the restaurant crowded round them . |
| 2 | People were buying her drinks ; she was lifting her glass in time with the others , banging on the tables like they did . |
| 3 | Yeah je , when I was having breakfast he used to jump on the table ! |
| 4 | When she had finished , she went to the mirror , took off her glasses , and fixed on two strips of the false eyelashes that Gloria had left scattered on the table . |
| 5 | The empty alejacks scattered on the table before him made the coroner look like an angry Bacchus surrounded by votive offerings . |
| 6 | A vase of white lilies stands on the table ; the decanter is a silvered jug of water only . |
| 7 | Father Reynard placed both bands on the table and bowed his head . |
| 8 | Permit me to rap on the table and murmur ‘ Pass ! ’ |
| 9 | Perched on the table beneath a bright green apple and a bottle of pills . |
| 10 | And , I mean , we , we was on about it one day , and she was only sat on the table next to us , ooh she was giving us daggers ! |
| 11 | Comparison of those four sequences are summarized on the Table 1 . |
| 12 | Leon Kennedy was next to her now , one fist gripping the back of her chair , about to pull it from under her , his other hand clenched on the table near her own which she snatched to her lap . |
| 13 | A European Economic Interest Grouping has already been approved , but the long awaited European Company Statute still lies on the table . |
| 14 | You must then perform a small conjuring trick — holding all the layers of the picture firmly together , turn the frame and picture upside down and place on the table , then fix on the hardboard back . |
| 15 | Put one of the little fellows in a box and tap on the table with a pencil and he behaves in exactly the same way . |
| 16 | She was aware of the mugs of cocoa , cooling on the table beside her , but she only wanted to prolong this wonderful moment , sitting here with David , her hand in his . |
| 17 | I mean I w when I was dropping dead with exhaustion one evening I said to him look Tony , the there 's I 've cooked a chicken , there 's a big chicken cooling on the table and there there were red sauce , potatoes , gravy , I said , stick the lot on a plate a micro and , you know , film it over , microwave it oh well I sha n't bother to eat anything now of course he was paying me for his food |
| 18 | Trying to drive yours up , spread on the table , not on the carpet , cos you he has to move everything on the carpet it 's not so slippy . |
| 19 | And he banged on the table . |
| 20 | After half an hour or so , when some of the journalists ' drinking arms were a blur , Jefferson banged on the table . |
| 21 | The cards have got ta be firmly put on the table . |
| 22 | We kids either had to serve behind the ice-cream counter or wait on the tables . |
| 23 | Mrs Wood knows that he will wake up about 7am and then get up and go downstairs where he will pull out drawers , knock over ornaments , scatter the contents of her food cupboards and climb on the table . |
| 24 | Auditory targets were produced by the experimenter tapping on the table by the targets using a pen . |
| 25 | A bottle of disinfectant , dental powders , scalpel and other simple tools can be seen on the table . |
| 26 | At all Clubs showing the symbol , one child sharing a twin room with one adult will benefit from reductions shown on the table above . |
| 27 | They sang , they danced on the tables , they called for their heroes and their heroes went to them . |
| 28 | I wished that I was less inhibited by my upbringing and could have done some extraordinary thing to confirm her diagnosis — danced on the table or stated that I would n't ally myself with a man with a face like a toothpaste advertisement . |
| 29 | But I saw him with his cap full of golden sovereigns and turned on the table and lent them all he 'd got . |
| 30 | The EC could absorb the 16.5 million East Germans , if it came to that , more easily than it could the two countries whose applications already lie on the table in Brussels — Austria with her backward deck-cargo of neutrality , and Turkey , with her GDP well below that of Portugal . |