Example sentences of "at the [noun] table " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes children must wait for an empty chair at the milk table before they can sit down . |
| 2 | The teacher was sitting at the pastry table with several children . |
| 3 | She had arranged her hair again and reinstated her hat though as she performed this operation at the dressing table in Antonietta 's elegant bedroom she thought how ridiculous the hat looked . |
| 4 | ‘ Entrez , ’ she called , still sitting at the dressing table , and turned her head with impeccable grace to welcome her guests . |
| 5 | Then we took turns at the dressing table , plastering our faces with lotions , creams , lipstick and eye shadow , and helping ourselves to my mother 's " Arpège " . |
| 6 | Penelope sat down at the dressing table and tried to do something to her hair . |
| 7 | I point at the dressing table with a finger like a ruler . |
| 8 | This was a conversation overheard at the lunch table : |
| 9 | From greeting her with a kiss at breakfast , throughout the morning , and up to ten minutes ago when , at the lunch table , he had covered her hand with his , gazed into her eyes and called her meu amor , he had been playing the adoring fiancé to perfection . |
| 10 | Says ‘ I wrote a letter at the lunch table at Upton entering my friend and me. the letter then joined 30,000 others on the producer 's desk and we thought no more about it . |
| 11 | ‘ We sat at the head table … . |
| 12 | Meopham may be nearer to France than to most of Britain but its residents cheered long and loud as Mr Major derided a United States of Europe and the prospect of a Labour Government at the EC table : ‘ Brussels wags its finger and over on its back rolls the Labour Party saying ‘ Yes ! ’ ’ |
| 13 | As soon as the basic tasks were finished , it was Jonadab 's custom to seat himself at the parlour table with a ledger and a leather drawstring bag full of money . |
| 14 | Back at the games table he sat down in his straight-backed chair and stared across at Ajayi , who put down the slate she was studying . |
| 15 | When she 'd finished he sat at the kitchen table , watching her getting his tea ready , brooding . |
| 16 | She had expected to find them both still in bed , and was surprised by the noises from the kitchen , but she poked her head round the door and saw Maggie sitting at the kitchen table eating Weetabix in a reassuringly healthy way . |
| 17 | Meanwhile Maggie stayed sitting at the kitchen table . |
| 18 | Catriona Stewart sells her patch boxes to some of the most exclusive shops in the country , yet she still works at the kitchen table ‘ with meals , toys and people all around ’ . |
| 19 | Supper at the kitchen table — bread coarsely cut and buttered , with none of the little refinements that were considered necessary for the family , who ate in another room . |
| 20 | Jane poured two whiskies which they both drank neat , at the kitchen table . |
| 21 | His Dad sat down at the kitchen table with the paper . |
| 22 | Dot sat in her coat at the kitchen table and watched Mrs Hollidaye heaping thick slices of bread spread with yellow butter on to a plate while Loopy Lil set out pretty teacups Patterned with roses on to matching saucers . |
| 23 | He was sitting at the kitchen table , wearing one of Buddie 's shirts and sipping cocoa from a large cup , when his nanny , Buddie 's mam , arrived at the house . |
| 24 | Now he sat at the kitchen table with the worm-cake before him and the taste of nausea already on his tongue . |
| 25 | Seated at the kitchen table , he began the long , tedious task of hacksawing all but eight inches off the barrels of the President 's twelve-gauge . |
| 26 | He sat down at the kitchen table and picked up the hacksaw . |
| 27 | Laura was ironing at the kitchen table , John sitting at the other end of the table with a bottle and glass in front of him . |
| 28 | They sat at the kitchen table sipping tea , waiting . |
| 29 | So he was sitting at the kitchen table eating his plate of beans when Donald walked in . |
| 30 | Teleworkers can operate at the kitchen table with a couple of filing cabinets tucked under it but most prefer to use a separate room they can shut the door on at the end of the day . |