Example sentences of "on the table " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mum furious that day when , aged seven , I emptied out the contents of her bag and arranged them on the table in descending order of size . |
| 2 | The first course was on the table when we went into the dining-room . |
| 3 | ‘ The potted shrimps were put on the table by the parlourmaid immediately before the guests entered the dining-room , ’ said Milsom . |
| 4 | ‘ So there was no need to have anything highly scented or smelling strongly on the table , ’ said Henry at once . |
| 5 | Only the flowers in the vase on the table in front of me seemed real . |
| 6 | Was shaking , in fact , as she put the pages on the table between them . |
| 7 | Lucy arranged the contents of a folder on the table and set up a typewriter . |
| 8 | Business is bad , love , ’ he said , plonking a flagon of cheap red on the table . |
| 9 | She put her head on the table and wept . |
| 10 | ‘ There is only one way to decide , ’ he said , and jumped up on the table , making Robertson flinch . |
| 11 | I sat there with my elbows on the table . |
| 12 | She leant her elbows on the table , clasped her hands lightly and rested her chin on them . |
| 13 | Gillian took a sip of wine , put the glass down on the table in front of her on top of the brochure from the dating agency , slipped off her shoes and curled her feet up under her on the sofa . |
| 14 | Thump your fist on the table . |
| 15 | He lift ed his picture , held it at arm 's length , considered it , replaced it on the table , rubbed out a couple of lines and carried on drawing . |
| 16 | And he dumped the wine on the table with a crash . |
| 17 | We then move one of the pencils upwards on the table , by about an inch or so , and ask again about the relative length of the pencils . |
| 18 | We settle ourselves down in a First Class cabin , lay our delicacies out on the table , open some wine and champagne , set the crayfish on to plates that do n't look paper , and eat , drink and devour vast quantities of pâté , hors d'oeuvre and champagne . |
| 19 | What is there to preserve so carefully ? ’ — and returns and lays thirty roubles on the table . |
| 20 | I am aware of the extensive experimental research which has focused on ion forms involving Ca++ Na+ etc2 , but what seems to have been missed in this prior research is the appreciation that water forms its own ion form in that it dissociates into hydroxyl and hydronium ions as listed on the table . |
| 21 | A cash offer of 605p for each Pearl share has been slapped on the table with a loan note alternative . |
| 22 | When you have reached the lees , leave the pot on the table with the lid overturned or tilted to one side . |
| 23 | As Jonathan Martin , the BBC head of sport , put it : ‘ It 's not just about having the biggest cheque on the table . |
| 24 | In stark contrast , industry seems almost eager to put all its cards on the table . |
| 25 | The plot , should there be such a thing , thickens as Fleeting has consistently put more cash on the table than his opponent . |
| 26 | He denied angrily that he had ever sought compensation of up to £1m ‘ although this has been a very expensive operation ’ , adding : ‘ I could have proceeded had I been totally selfish for there were several options on the table , financially very attractive . ’ |
| 27 | Accordingly , he has drawn up a document outlining his position on negotiations which he means to make public , so the people are fully apprised of the proposals that would be on the table . |
| 28 | In some cases this was rather literally the case — the syrupy domestic interiors beloved of German nineteenth-century painters began to reappear with pictures of the Fuhrer on the wall and the Volkischer Beobachter lying folded on the table . |
| 29 | Mr Healey — the best leader Labour never had , and a man of such substance as the party no longer possesses — was regarding , from under shaggy eyebrows , the large and rollicking volume of his autobiography , just published , which lay on the table between us in his hotel suite . |
| 30 | They stood to the side as I entered then the woman showed me to a chair as the man brought two glasses and placed them on the table in front of me , then said very seriously , ‘ This is my wife . |