Example sentences of "[verb] at the [adj] table [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She glanced at the book-laden table and at the general disarray . |
| 2 | She was also aware of Angel , the Brit-hater , who had n't once eaten at the same table as her since she arrived , who was now riding harder and turning faster than any of the others , urging his pony on with great pelvic thrusts . |
| 3 | It made him feel grown up sitting at the same table as real university students ; engineers and agricultural science students , law or medicine , they had all sat and studied around the Hegarty dining table while young Frank was working for his Intermediate and his Leaving Certificate . |
| 4 | On Sunday , after leaving my suitcase with the hall porter who was to see that it was in the Land Rover to meet me after the shooting , I enjoyed brunch in the Gleneagles restaurant sitting at the same table as the Princess Royal . |
| 5 | That night in the pub I did n't sit at the same table as the others but moved into the other bar with my pint and newspaper . |
| 6 | ‘ Come and have a drink , ’ said Cormack , and they moved into the bar and sat at the fixed tables and watched the glasses slide from rim to rim . |
| 7 | On the first-floor terrace they sat at the round table while Roman did the honours with gin and tonics . |
| 8 | Emily sat at the scrubbed table and the startled look on Letty 's face made her smile ruefully . |