Example sentences of "[verb] at the [adj] table " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Here 's fifty , ’ he shouts at the next table . |
| 2 | " Philip so honoured him " , wrote Roger of Howden , " that every day they ate at the same table , shared the same dish and a- night the bed did not separate them . |
| 3 | Although it is doubtful that throughout the middle ages masters and servants ate at the same table , above and below the salt , as the Victorians supposed , the Gothic hall , entered directly from the outside world and accommodating every social rank , symbolized their ideal of social integration . |
| 4 | Also now and then someone at one of the two tables might look at the other table with a sneer or an ugly remark . |
| 5 | Busacher snorted , drank , and wandered over to look at the long table which had been set up right down the centre of Willi 's big living room . |
| 6 | But we need our own voice and vote at the top table to take us to the heat of Europe , not leave us on the periphery . ’ |
| 7 | He glanced at the other table . |
| 8 | She glanced at the book-laden table and at the general disarray . |
| 9 | She stood staring at the yellow-flowered table cloth , as phrases formed and reformed inside her head , but she said nothing . |
| 10 | Well he , he appreciated at the previous table show on the sixth of October and that was a case when it was always you know , because Danny only told me on that night that he could come . |
| 11 | She was also aware of Angel , the Brit-hater , who had n't once eaten at the same table as her since she arrived , who was now riding harder and turning faster than any of the others , urging his pony on with great pelvic thrusts . |
| 12 | There were seven people seated at the long table . |
| 13 | Montgomery remained seated at the gleaming table , and motioned with his hand for Meryl to sit down opposite . |
| 14 | But if the first speaker is not seated at the top table there may be a pause while he walks to the microphone . |
| 15 | Under an agreement reached at the round table in January the UDF newspaper Demokratsiya was permitted a maximum circulation of 70,000 copies a day [ see p. 37193 ] , but this compared with 760,000 copies of the BCP daily Rabotnichesko Delo . |
| 16 | She looked at the empty tables . |
| 17 | But when they were sitting at the oval table in the dining-room , eating Mrs Purry 's admirable steak and kidney pudding and drinking a full-bodied Burgundy , Penelope found herself next to Rupert , who talked very pleasantly about Italy , remembering that Penelope was shortly to visit Rome with the parish party , and told her of things she ought to see and restaurants where she might eat . |
| 18 | The Conductor , in his grey suit with gold bars of long service on his left sleeve , was sitting at the first table past the kitchen , finishing his lunch . |
| 19 | From the corner where she squatted on a stool , she watched Midnight quietly serving the six people sitting at the long table ; n the centre of the room and , in spite of her hunger , was impressed by the careful , unobtrusive way he worked — standing always on the left of each person , never knocking against them or even brushing the backs of their tall chairs . |
| 20 | Some of the people sitting at the big table did not even raise their eyes . |
| 21 | When he entered , she was sitting at the big table . |
| 22 | Tonight I 'm sitting at the same table |
| 23 | It made him feel grown up sitting at the same table as real university students ; engineers and agricultural science students , law or medicine , they had all sat and studied around the Hegarty dining table while young Frank was working for his Intermediate and his Leaving Certificate . |
| 24 | On Sunday , after leaving my suitcase with the hall porter who was to see that it was in the Land Rover to meet me after the shooting , I enjoyed brunch in the Gleneagles restaurant sitting at the same table as the Princess Royal . |
| 25 | The talk would take in all the great political and aesthetic themes : Jean-Paul Sartre would join in , for he would be sitting at the next table : together , artists and intellectuals would conquer life 's essential absurdity ; and from such discussions tomorrow 's painting would be born . |
| 26 | Having finished her spot , the soprano left the stage and rejoined her husband and the Concert Secretary who were sitting at the next table . |
| 27 | He wished that he could have listened to their conversation , but he would not have made much of it if he had been sitting at the next table . |
| 28 | He had seen her sitting at the high table among the other ladies of noble birth who served the Empress . |
| 29 | The rooms could have been empty , it was impossible to tell , and in fact when I came to the special dining car I found a good number of the passengers sitting at the unlaid tables , just chatting . |
| 30 | Would the Secretary of State have been prepared to sit at the same table — I repeat , would the Secretary of State and his colleagues have been prepared to sit at the same table with that man , within the confines of the Anglo-Irish Agreement ? |