Example sentences of "he [prep] the table " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ Sorry , son , ’ he murmured , and then the crew lifted him off the table , pillows and all , and strapped him into the ambulance . |
| 2 | Ari sang , kicking him under the table . |
| 3 | So I 'm kicking him under the table ! |
| 4 | The Prince rose and waved him round the table to the chair next to his before serving them both with the best wine the clerk had tasted in months . |
| 5 | ‘ Yes , ’ she agreed , and followed him to the table . |
| 6 | There 's a statue of him on the table too . ’ |
| 7 | The rampant sexism of the climbing and walking fraternity over the last 50 years has left a whole generation of older women with the legacy of being expected to have the white-bearded , old sod 's tea ready for him on the table when he comes home from a fabulous day out on the hills . |
| 8 | She found him in his kitchen , immersed in the newspaper spread out before him on the table . |
| 9 | ‘ Let me explain to all of you why this case is so different , ’ Tanner continued , hunching his huge shoulders , his big hands spread before him on the table . |
| 10 | He saw ahead of him the bowed back of Byrkin , hunched head in hands with an empty bowl in front of him on the table . |
| 11 | ‘ I ca n't really answer that until we see what we find when we get him on the table . |
| 12 | Josh had the newspaper spread out in front of him on the table , but Ruth felt sure that he had not been reading it ; she doubted if he even knew it was there . |
| 13 | But Blain-Thomson will be able to tell you more then he gets him on the table . |
| 14 | " Put him on the table please , " I said , and as he lifted the little animal I decided that I could n't let this opportunity pass . |
| 15 | No-one liked to speak first , and Willis , a marine artist some sixty-five years old , the owner of Dreadnought , sat with his hands before him on the table and his head slightly sunken , so that only the top , with its spiky crown of black and gray hair , could be seen . |
| 16 | down into his arteries and we ca n't get anything down there so they 're blocked , but he said how the hell he survived that op I do n't know he said they could 've done more with his legs but it meant another hour and a quarter minutes in surgery , and he said he 'd had enough we could n't have kept him on the table a minute longer so he said all we can do is wait , so now mum said well he 's alright in intensive care , he 's responding well , getting over the operation well , but what we was worried about was him breathing on his own , had he , had he been you see , anyway he said this on er Thursday |
| 17 | She smiled at him over the table napkin , which was removing a minute trace of profiterole . |
| 18 | Anne watches him over the table in that brooding speculative way of hers , as if he were a long-pondered clue in a half-completed crossword . |
| 19 | Several months before , he had been almost sleek , thanks to fourteen-mile walks and his wife 's efforts to police him at the table . |
| 20 | And the old man arose and embraced his son and placed him above him at the table , saying , that he who had brought home that head should be the head of the house of Layn Calvo . |
| 21 | But Hendry had quickly noticed that security was being beefed up , with police mingling with crowds at the Rothmans Grand Prix in Reading and the UK Championship in Preston after threats to shoot him at the table . |
| 22 | She walked over and joined him at the table . |
| 23 | But Rosa motioned to him to sit , and sat herself down , opposite him at the table , expectant . |
| 24 | Wycliffe joined him at the table . |
| 25 | I replaced him at the table opposite Werewolf who was staring into his tomato juice . |
| 26 | The Woman stood up and faced him across the table . |
| 27 | The Prime Minister can not stand Enoch Powell 's steely and accusing eye looking at him across the table any more , and I 've had to move him down the side . ’ |
| 28 | I looked at him across the table like you look at a pet dog that 's enjoying the Nourishing Marrowbone Jelly you 've just given it . |
| 29 | But there was something forced about his gaiety now , and Breeze , looking at him across the table , felt again that sharp pang of uncertainty . |
| 30 | Beattie sat facing him across the table during his interview . |