Example sentences of "[adv] at [art] [noun sg] table " in BNC.
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| 1 | Feeling a wave of dizziness , she slumped defeatedly at the kitchen table . |
| 2 | Ruth grinned at him as he sat down at a cane table , making sure he was under the bright green awning that hung over the balcony and not a sliver of sun was on the bare parts of his body . |
| 3 | Sir Ralph ( he had been knighted by Margaret Thatcher in 1980 for raising money from commerce and industry to finance the activities of Conservative Central Office when in Opposition ) bought a coffee and sat down at a corner table . |
| 4 | Jamie and I sit down at a side table to wait . |
| 5 | ‘ If he was he would sit down at the negotiating table with us . ’ |
| 6 | He had actually slumped down at the breakfast table before he became aware of Kelly 's presence . |
| 7 | After walking round the dining-room with my memories I sat down at the stone table . |
| 8 | She went and sat down at the stone table and Jack sank down opposite her . |
| 9 | He began to walk towards the Monument in the glare of the headlights , then he sat down at the stone table and beckoned . |
| 10 | His Dad sat down at the kitchen table with the paper . |
| 11 | He sat down at the kitchen table and picked up the hacksaw . |
| 12 | She slammed the boot down , with a cry of ‘ God Almighty ! ’ and ran indoors , where she sat down at the kitchen table and beat her fists against the wood , with anger , with frustration , with a sudden , desperate concern for Nick . |
| 13 | I settled down at the kitchen table with a jug of fresh orange juice , a bowl of fruit at my elbow , and the newspapers before me . |
| 14 | When they sat down at the kitchen table , Emily perched on the edge of her chair , and her hands were never still . |
| 15 | ‘ Bob 's got his girl-friend staying with him , ’ he said to Jannie , still grinning , as he sat down at the kitchen table and sipped absently at the cup of coffee which had appeared there . |
| 16 | ‘ I never expected to see you — or anyone else — up here this morning , ’ Seb admitted honestly as he sat down at the kitchen table . |
| 17 | When she had finished , she sat down at the kitchen table with the envelope Tracey had given her the night before . |
| 18 | I sat down at the kitchen table to watch Mrs Clamp work . |
| 19 | Peggy sat down at the kitchen table and looked at the mail . |
| 20 | After Janice had gone Shiona went back inside and sat down at the kitchen table with a cup of strong black coffee . |
| 21 | Dumping her bags in the bedroom , she sat down at the kitchen table and began to sift lethargically through the pile of accumulated mail , from time to time eyeing the phone in the hall . |
| 22 | She helped him to the kitchen , as that seemed to be the best place for him for the moment , and sat him down at the kitchen table while she went and got a towel . |
| 23 | When Thomas was contentedly playing with his cars , Ashley sat down at the kitchen table . |
| 24 | Penelope sat down at the dressing table and tried to do something to her hair . |
| 25 | Athelstan went over to the window and stared down at the chess table . |
| 26 | Then she settled down at the dining-room table with her book purchases , which she had picked at random from the shelves of Tollemarche 's only book store and from the racks of one of the cigar stores . |
| 27 | She went into the living room where she settled down at the dining table to mark compositions . |
| 28 | ‘ Coming sir , ’ they both trilled , and soon we were sitting down at the dining table in a corner of the living-room . |
| 29 | We sat down together at a café table and went through some of them together . |
| 30 | President Bush and his former Secretary of State James Baker were widely credited with having brought Israel and its Arab neighbours together at the negotiating table and with having maintained the momentum of the process . |