Example sentences of "at the dinner table [conj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | There were fairly frequent serious and ‘ humorous ’ comments made in the staffroom and at the dinner table that I sometimes challenged . |
| 2 | To please him , she travelled , learnt languages , read all the guide books to the cities he insisted they visit , became a sexual virtuoso , developed opinions on the classics and on contemporary literature , and learnt never to voice them at the dinner table unless asked . |
| 3 | But I found it too embarrassing to keep suggesting to a fellow professional that he should take time off from his own work to accompany me to functions where he was not able to join me at the dinner table when he got there . |
| 4 | Norm was more pleasant at the dinner table when the boys were not there . |
| 5 | When they were not in chapel , at the dinner table or in their beds , there was nothing at all to do in the house except join the endless gossiping sessions with which João 's sisters and cousins filled their idle hours . |
| 6 | She sat again at the dinner table and saw in the candlelight Hilary Robarts 's dark , discontented eyes staring intently at Alex Mair ; watched the planes of Miles Lessingham 's face fitfully lit by the leaping flames of the fire , saw his long-fingered hands reaching down for the bottle of claret , heard again that measured rather high voice speaking the unspeakable . |