Example sentences of "[v-ing] at a table " in BNC.
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| 1 | Behind them , a row was developing at a table between a drunken American and two girls . |
| 2 | She tried to look at the thing calmly and sensibly , tried not to be aware of Deana and Sarah whispering at a table only a few yards distant , but felt too hurt and shocked to be rational . |
| 3 | On opening the door , Derek saw two of them drinking at a table . |
| 4 | She was sitting at a table in the recreation room with her relatives round her . |
| 5 | There 's a man and a woman sitting at a table by the window , and I watch them for a bit . |
| 6 | Sometimes they would come and lunch or dine in my hotel , sitting at a table next to ours . |
| 7 | It was so much more businesslike to spread out needlework or write letters sitting at a table . |
| 8 | Sitting at a table sipping champagne is club owner Lips Manlis ( Paul Sorvino ) , a hood with muscle one of those leftovers from Prohibition days who , despite his fancy clothes and expensive cigars , remains a lug . |
| 9 | There were a couple of people already in there , sitting at a table near the counter . |
| 10 | When they arrived the place was empty — — it was early evening — except for ‘ two street toughs in camel-hair coats ’ sitting at a table ; ‘ and they were fairly easy to distinguish , and I think we walked up and asked them if they were — and — , and they said yes . ’ |
| 11 | On our last night we dined on fresh local fish in the Club taverna sitting at a table close to the water 's edge . |
| 12 | RICHARD is sitting at a table , poring morosely over his cheque-book stubs . |
| 13 | He had been sitting at a table in the corner reading an Italian newspaper and Sandison had hardly paid him any attention . |
| 14 | When Sandison arrived at Franco 's bar the next morning at ten to ten , Maidstone was already there , sitting at a table , drinking coffee . |
| 15 | Just inside the door there were two Germans in the grey uniform of the Luftwaffe sitting at a table . |
| 16 | Six of us were sitting at a table . |
| 17 | Sitting at a table with Rebecca Small , Richard Barton , Laura Lewis , Natasha James and Holly Randall she was able to see the children 's work books . |
| 18 | ( The story is completed by a picture of the crocodile , wearing a party hat , sitting at a table loaded with cakes . |
| 19 | She is sitting at a table , reading a Yiddish newspaper , and doing crochet . |
| 20 | Sitting at a table in the corner so that they can see the door , catch the others ' eyes when they come in . |
| 21 | Nell was sitting at a table with a fortyish couple who she later told me owned one of the horses in the box-car , a dark bay called Redi-Hot . |
| 22 | Sheridan Lorrimore , who was sitting at a table apart from his parents , demanded I bring him a double Scotch at once . |
| 23 | ‘ That 's wonderful , ’ said the man , but then he saw four Scots sitting at a table without a drink . |
| 24 | Late on the Saturday evening , in the glow which follows a good dinner and good wines , four of us , all old acquaintances , were sitting at a table in the lounge talking — inevitably — about birds , and the conversation got round to places we would like to visit . |
| 25 | In the latter case , the knowledge may include likely events such as sitting at a table , reading the menu , ordering , waiting , being served , eating , paying the bill and so on . |
| 26 | Sitting at a table between the two men , uncomfortably close to this violent exchange , Patrick O'Dell tried to pour oil on troubled waters . |
| 27 | I remember one day in the 1940s sitting at a table on the first floor of the Crown in Fleet Street , next to a table where an attractive young woman , then unknown to me , was sitting in front of a plate of smoked salmon and opposite an empty place furnished with another plate of smoked salmon , which must have been ordered in advance . |
| 28 | In the centre of the room , sitting at a table , was the strangest lady I have ever seen , or shall ever see . |
| 29 | A few months later I was sitting at a table opposite three Foreign Office officials . |
| 30 | When Chuck crossed to the cook tent , carrying his rifle for the early start they planned for the final day , his father was already sitting at a table in the open , sipping a steaming mug of black coffee . |