Example sentences of "laying the table " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many children will not be used to ‘ sit down meals ’ or ‘ laying the table ’ , for instance , and skills like these may be learned in purposeful activities in school and practised spontaneously in play . |
| 2 | Dorothy stopped laying the table for supper and stared at her sister , her blue eyes wide with disbelief . |
| 3 | Christmas is the one time completely free of cricket — and Clarissa loves the theatricality of dressing the tree and laying the table with the best silver . |
| 4 | But when she turned round , he was laying the table . |
| 5 | Molly went on laying the table , placing knives and forks neatly as though her sanity depended on it . |
| 6 | The uncles would hide rueful grins , because they knew better than most what sort of cooks the aunts were , and there would follow the inevitable patch of family " atmosphere " before Addy would relent and appoint them to do some menial task like laying the table . |
| 7 | In the kitchen she found Cissie occupied in laying the table , while Richard was already seated there , his small chubby arms folded before him and his watchful green eyes following Cissie 's every move . |
| 8 | ‘ Little , ’ replied the waiter , laying the table out . |
| 9 | She came and went while he was out , tidying up , laying the table for his evening meal , and no doubt reading his letters and looking in his drawers to see if he had a rupture belt or kept a stock of contraceptives . |
| 10 | She served restaurant meals , laying the table with dire artistry , wrapping mousses of fish in fillets of different fish , lapped by puddles of brightly hued sauces , and she provided each guest with his own little plateful of miniature carrots , mange-tout peas and tiny potatoes . |
| 11 | Thérèse and Léonie were laying the table . |
| 12 | Sophia was in the kitchen , laying the table for supper . |
| 13 | And laying the table , washing up the dishes . |
| 14 | Sometimes she would start laying the table for breakfast at four in the afternoon ; sometimes she would pursue Maisie and Robert out into the street with plates of hot food , begging them to eat more . |
| 15 | In the kitchen Anne and Millie are laying the table for dinner , talking seriously . |