Example sentences of "[v-ing] at the table " in BNC.
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| 1 | And M was stabbing at the table top with her secateurs and I could see she was white with rage . |
| 2 | Shivering at the table and peering down at the paper under the stumpy candle I allowed myself to wander off the straight path through the dark trees . |
| 3 | Looking at the table we can see how low the calcium level is in cereals . |
| 4 | Francie , still smoking at the table , laughed like a coffee grinder whirring , and Aunt Margaret , up to her elbows in suds , turned warningly to him with a finger on her lips . |
| 5 | Tug sat down where the Woman pointed , but Doyle began to walk round the room , peering at the table from all angles . |
| 6 | He 's staring at the table . |
| 7 | Artai was staring at the table as he spoke . |
| 8 | Suddenly everyone had gone except for one man , the show 's principal backer , who sat crying at the table . |
| 9 | Glancing at the table , she saw that the girl had done everything just as she had shown her … the big brown teapot had pride of place in the centre of the table , with the pretty rose-patterned milk jug and sugar bowl beside it . |
| 10 | Mrs Beavis looked plumply overflowing at the table . |
| 11 | Millie was standing at the table with her hands resting on the back of a chair , looking down at the tablecloth . |
| 12 | People started coming into the dining room and sitting at the tables regardless of the fact that we were still in the station . |
| 13 | It felt cold in here , though other travellers , sitting at the tables , wore only thin clothes . |
| 14 | They may spend Saturday night together , and as often as not you see the men holding up the bar with their pints and the women sitting at the tables with their shorts . |
| 15 | In the kitchen she found Rodney stirring the contents of two saucepans and Veronica , John and a young man she did not know sitting at the table drinking wine . |
| 16 | The others were sitting at the table . |
| 17 | In the kitchen she found Veronica cooking and Rodney sitting at the table writing a list . |
| 18 | She was sitting at the table with her chocolate cooling in the mug between her hands . |
| 19 | She turned and saw him still sitting at the table . |
| 20 | Sitting at the table in North 's office , they communicated by passing notes to each other , even notes that merely inquired when they ought to meet up again . |
| 21 | When I 'd left the horse in the yard and gone in for breakfast I found both Mackie and Sam Yaeger sitting at the table with Tremayne , all of them discussing that day 's racing at Nottingham . |
| 22 | He slept , sitting at the table , the towel his pillow . |
| 23 | Her father , a hale old man over seventy , with a fresh colour and benignant expression , was sitting at the table finishing his meal . |
| 24 | As I remember it was one morning a little while after my father and Miss Kenton had joined the staff , I had been in my pantry , sitting at the table going through my paperwork , when I heard a knock on my door . |
| 25 | defiance of house rules ( e.g. breaking rules about playing with matches , about not switching on the TV before the children 's programmes begin , about sitting at the table until the meal is finished , or about not taking food out of the fridge without permission ) ; |
| 26 | Sergeant Hanafin was sitting at the table with Peg O'Malley . |
| 27 | Sonny was sitting at the table with his mother . |
| 28 | Yvonne was sitting at the table with a cheroot and a tall glass of wine . |
| 29 | He watched his dejected figure walk past him into the cottage and , after allowing a few minutes to elapse , followed him in and discovered him sitting at the table in the living room , his bag of apples and sandwich lying untouched . |
| 30 | Tom was sitting at the table , glueing coloured paper chains together . |