Example sentences of "a long table " in BNC.
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| 1 | Roses , alstroemeria and chrysanthemum heads make a luscious decoration for a long table . |
| 2 | On a long table place containers in a row . |
| 3 | Before us , in a sort of alcove brilliantly lighted … was a long table set out as one sees the Last Supper pourtrayed at Milan or elsewhere , with no one on the near side of the table … |
| 4 | There was the celebratory dinner on coming out of the line near Cassino , when Captain Sir Hugh Arbuthnot slung a full bottle of wine down a long table at Lieutenant-Colonel Sir William Makins , to whom he had developed a sudden antipathy . |
| 5 | Several admirable but narrow-banded supporters ' organisations rail and rattle at the iniquity of it all and occasionally they are even permitted to have a say at the distant end of a long table . |
| 6 | The men stood aside and she walked in between them … almost stumbled in between them ; and then she was in a large room in the middle of which was a long table covered in oilcloth . |
| 7 | At the far end , on a dais , was a long table crowded with fierce-looking men dressed in costly ermine and sable-edged cloaks , though , from where he stood , Corbett could see the glint of armour many of them wore beneath their robes . |
| 8 | Rows of benches , a long table — the total simplicity of the low church . |
| 9 | At one end of the hall , a long table , embellished with a lace tablecloth , had been laid with silver coffee-pots at one end and silver teapots at the other , a mass of flowered cups and saucers round each . |
| 10 | Not only that , on the stage was a long table , and yes you 've guessed it , among the dignitaries were several men . |
| 11 | In the store room next to the kitchen were a long table and shelves always covered with all sorts of provisions ; large earthenware jars full of confits of pork and goose , a small barrel where vinegar slowly matured , a bowl where honey oozed out of the comb , jams , preserves of sorrel and of tomatoes , and odd bottles with grapes and cherries marinating in brandy ; next to the table a weighing machine on which I used to stand at regular intervals ; sacks of haricot beans , of potatoes ; eggs , each one carefully dated in pencil . |
| 12 | In the candle-light I could see a long table , in the middle of which was a large yellow shape , with hundreds of insects feeding off it . |
| 13 | There was a long table of scrubbed pine with a tablecloth ( splashed with russet chrysanthemums , the sort of tablecloth you see through the windows of other people 's houses as you walk by at teatime ) folded back to cover crockery set out ready for breakfast , perhaps to keep mice from dirtying the cups . |
| 14 | This year Bathsheba had ordered her maids to put a long table in the garden , with the top end of the table just inside the house . |
| 15 | A bank of phones , paperwork cascading over a long table , two computers programmed to look for patterns , similarities , oddities . |
| 16 | There used to be a long table and the head used to sit at the end of this table and so to see that you did n't leave off working she used to get the table cloth and always be pulling this table straight . |
| 17 | Cos it was a long table with a white cloth on . |
| 18 | The room , possibly used as a chancery by the duke , was dominated by a long table with chairs down either side and a high-backed , throne-like seat at the top . |
| 19 | The five Board members sit along one side of a long table . |
| 20 | ‘ The answer to both your questions is yes , ’ she told the girl sitting at a long table on the far side of the room . |