Example sentences of "down the table " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1986 he took over the captaincy from Fletcher and led them to their third championship in four years , but early in 1987 he suffered a bad loss of form and the team slipped right down the table . |
| 2 | Joe stood up and came down the table towards Harriet Shakespeare . |
| 3 | Wolves had gone into the match halfway down the table and seven points adrift from the top six . |
| 4 | He gestured down the table with his knife and Jo , smiling broadly , passed the relish . |
| 5 | Elizabeth , nibbling at her food in unaccustomed silence , glanced down the table at John . |
| 6 | Henry looked down the table now and grinned at his mother as he said , ‘ Yes , Mama . ’ |
| 7 | She looked down the table to Captain Meredith facing her . |
| 8 | Bob Crayshaw said , looking up and down the table while he shifted his cutlery around as if he might find answers in the new arrangement . |
| 9 | They turned into the dining room , and gasped at the long row of glowing candles which stretched down the table to the further limits of vision . |
| 10 | Annie looked down the table to where her son George sat next to his wife . |
| 11 | There was a silence , Jack watched his brothers look at each other in alarm , and saw his mother frown slightly down the table at his father . |
| 12 | ‘ Just another five minutes , ’ Nick begged , not taking his eyes from the ball as he whacked it half way down the table . |
| 13 | He took off his pince-nez , perched them higher up his nose , looked down the table . |
| 14 | Shales picked up one of the newspapers in front of him and pitched it down the table in Dowd 's direction . |
| 15 | Also , I 've decided not to brush down the table or re-mark it or clean the balls : I reckon a few bad kicks and some low-lying grit on the baize will unsettle him more than they will me . |
| 16 | ‘ These plates are cold , ’ said Patrick Milligan senior , looking up from his place and staring down the table at his five-year-old daughter , who at once scrambled to her feet . |
| 17 | The ‘ broth ’ stared down the table at Ellie , and Ellie stared right back at them . |
| 18 | He looked down the table and held up his plate , as did the ‘ broth ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ Diana — ’ her stepmother coo-ed down the table . |
| 20 | ‘ What fun to hear Artemis laugh , ’ her stepmother 's voice floated down the table . |
| 21 | Artemis stared down the table at her stepmother , who was smiling brightly at her . |
| 22 | Ellie looked down the table at her father , expecting an intervention . |
| 23 | Ellie looked once more down the table to her father , silently praying he would put an end to it , and prevent what was sure to be a bloodbath . |
| 24 | The head of the family rested his knife and fork on their heels and looked down the table . |
| 25 | Further down the table , the subject was the Jubilee again . |
| 26 | He can see them , all down the table , leaning forwards over their plates , then back in their chairs , an irregular series of nodding heads like a shop window full of sipping chicken toys . |
| 27 | Time passing never softened the impact of that moment when she looked down the table to where Twomey waited for Aunt Tossie to give her attention to the pudding he offered . |
| 28 | Sladen glanced down the table . |
| 29 | She put her hand out to him down the table , imploring him . |
| 30 | All down the table , white-gloved footmen were removing the soup plates , the men 's all empty , the ladies ' all — all but her own — ; three quarters full still . |