Example sentences of "it on the table " in BNC.
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| 1 | He lift ed his picture , held it at arm 's length , considered it , replaced it on the table , rubbed out a couple of lines and carried on drawing . |
| 2 | Philip took the vase and put it on the table where it had been before , wiping off some of the dust with his elbow . |
| 3 | Confidently you open your portable projector and put it on the table . |
| 4 | She explains : ‘ I take a very deep breath before I get on the plane and then as soon as I am on board I get out all my make-up and put it on the table in front of me and spend hours putting it on . |
| 5 | When we reached the house , however , he rummaged about in the office for a while complaining that he could never find anything on Dee-Dee 's days off and eventually brought a paper into the dining-room , plonked it on the table and instructed me to sign . |
| 6 | I took my gun out of the closet and put two bullets in the magazine and laid it on the table beside my bed . |
| 7 | Mrs Lennox filled Laura 's cup and placed it on the table . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , then — ’ Alice walked across the kitchen to the open fireplace and , bending towards the oven at the side of it , she opened the door and took out a casserole dish and placed it on the table before she went on , ‘ If that 's how you 're feeling I think it 's about time you got yourself married . ’ |
| 9 | I pulled the tin box out of my battle-dress and put it on the table . |
| 10 | The carter said ‘ Yes , please ’ , so Grandmother put the pudding on a plate , placed it on the table , whereupon the carter said ‘ Me and the boy likes the ends ’ . |
| 11 | I 'd run all the way home , put it on the table and say , ‘ There you are , I 'm better than you , our Dad ! ’ |
| 12 | She sat it on the table beside Gloria 's drink . |
| 13 | He frowned , pulled the napkin from his lap and laid it on the table as he stood up , shrugging apologetically to his mother , seeming to indicate that it was the kind of thing that had happened before , from time to time . |
| 14 | Smoothly , he set it on the table , then resumed his seat . |
| 15 | One of the best descriptions of the landscape of Madeira is that given by White and Johnson ( Madeira. : Its Climate and Scenery , 1860 ) : ‘ When Columbus was asked by Queen Isabella to give her some notion of the configuration of Jamaica , it is said that he took up a sheet of paper , and after crushing it in his hand , partly opened it out ; then placing it on the table , he told her Majesty that she would derive a better idea of the island from the crumpled paper than from any description conveyed in words . |
| 16 | He placed it on the table and took out the contents . |
| 17 | Pushing a chair gently to one side , he placed it on the table and sat down . |
| 18 | ‘ Must n't forget that , ’ he commented as he set it on the table and , with a glow of pride , Mildred walked away arm-in-arm with the two most important people at the celebrations , to have a proper old-fashioned tea by the nearest bonfire . |
| 19 | She took off her hat and laid it on the table , and he saw with a sense of shock that her hair was white down the line of the parting where the tinting had grown out . |
| 20 | First , if you spin it on the table , ‘ stalk ’ upward , it almost immediately flips itself over to spin upside-down , balancing on the stalk' . |
| 21 | Well , she knows I put it on the table all at the same time ; if it 's cold , that 's her look out . |
| 22 | Place it on the table in front of you . |
| 23 | If you poured it on the table , it probably would n't even eat half-way through . |
| 24 | ‘ Put it on the table , ’ the Trunchbull said . |
| 25 | ‘ It will be your job to go to the kitchen and get the jug and fill it with water and put it on the table here with a clean empty glass just before the lesson starts . ’ |
| 26 | I had a flat tape recorder with a directional mic and I stuck it on the table and above me was a speaker through which all this muzak was coming out . |
| 27 | She had seen it on the table on her Wednesday visit and had said : |
| 28 | He took out a notebook , wrote something on it , tore off the top sheet , put it on the table . |
| 29 | Though he 'd never used it , the Bowl was reputedly the most accurate prophetic tool known in the worlds , and now — sitting amid his treasures , with a sense growing in him that events on Earth in the last few days were leading to some matter of moment — he brought the Bowl down from its place on the highest shelf , unwrapped it , and set it on the table . |
| 30 | I like to put it on the table and hear the comments afterwards , and I 'm pleased to bits if it 's been all right … |