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Example sentences of "[verb] down [prep] [art] table " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	I sit down to the table , and watch me , real men are n't like that are they ? and it locks
2	Guests are often late and rarely sit down at the table on time .
3	Please sit down at the table .
4	There 's plenty here , so if you clean yourself up and sit down at the table I 'll put something out for you too .
5	And there 's another sort of things now that we do n't hear is when you sit down at the table to eat erm they 're probably the most the hostess would say now would be , Help yourself .
6	She frowned , gazing down at the table , she even bared her teeth .
7	Mrs Fry went straight to the kitchen , told us to sit down at the table , opened the oven ( split-level cooker , of course ) and got out a huge pot .
8	Then he would have been able to sit down at the table , loosen his shirt collar , his shoelaces , and read the evening paper until Patsy was ready .
9	They say they are looking forward to seeing him soon , and that he will be safely with them to sit down at the table and enjoy the feast of the next Thanksgiving dinner .
10	‘ I see nothing to celebrate , ’ said Charlotte Feaver , the first to sit down at the table despite what lay upon it .
11	You get a nice space to sit down at the table
12	Despite the growth of the disabled people 's movement these paper professionals still think it quite normal to sit down round the table and decide what 's best for us .
13	Six months ago he was the first to say publicly , ‘ The Government will have to sit down round the table with the terrorists . ’
14	Tilda appeared with a ball of oozing clay in her arms which she flung down on the table .
15	I think about telling her that Andy was there , in his sleeping bag , listening the whole time , but while I 'm thinking about it something goes wrong ; there must have been a flaw in one of the glasses , or the weight is just too much , because there 's a cracking sound and one side of the pyramid starts to collapse , sending an avalanche of falling glass and frothing champagne spilling crashing down off the table and smashing , bouncing and splashing onto the mats and the floor below .
16	When she returned to the kitchen , she sank down at the table and tried to eat a little of the food , conscious that Craig was watching her .
17	Once inside the house , Hari lit the candle and sank down at the table , her eyes heavy with tiredness and unshed tears .
18	He looks down at the table , smiling , and draws a face by running his finger through a ring of beer .
19	But to this day he had not once sat down at a table prepared by Beth , and both she and David knew only too well that it was a deliberate snub .
20	They all stared at me wide-eyed and continued to stand and stare even after I had sat down at the table .
21	He glances down at the table , as if the answer might be written on a beer mat .
22	Ward 's left hand crashed down on the table , spilling coffee from the cup he had just filled .
23	‘ It 's Dad , ’ I said and stopped , looking down at the table .
24	The third one is the , this book is pushing down on the table and the table is pushing up on the book .
25	Others sprang to the defence of their rulers and the argument became furious until a heavy fist banged down on the table and bottles and food went flying .
26	He put the card face down on the table and brushed off the torn fragments of paper with the side of his sore hand .
27	To play , we each choose one of our cards and lay it face down on the table .
28	Half-way through the interview I reminded him of his claim , pulled out a sheet of paper on which I had written three true statements and three false ones , and putting it face down on the table , invited him to use the pendulum to indicate the correct answers .
29	She closed her eyes , sighed , frowned down at the table where the ash lay like his spoor .
30	Only now , in my old age , I wish I had got down from the table and put my arms round his neck and kissed him .