Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] down [prep] the table " in BNC.

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1 I sat down by the table and lifted the pot .
2 I jumped down from the table , and ran out of the room .
3 Tilda appeared with a ball of oozing clay in her arms which she flung down on the table .
4 When she returned to the kitchen , she sank down at the table and tried to eat a little of the food , conscious that Craig was watching her .
5 She ducked down behind the table and emerged with the little box her employer had displayed so proudly , then raked around in the back of a drawer until she came up with a key .
6 She looked down at the table .
7 She looked down at the table , and then raised her eyes to meet his again , the challenge gone .
8 When she sat down at the table her mother said , ‘ Well , you can help yourself , I 've got my hands full here . ’
9 As she sat down at the table she said to the child , ‘ Sit up now . ’
10 She sat down at the table reserved for the traveller with the skin grafts and began to score the cloth with a fork .
11 She sat down at the table again .
12 She sat down at the table while Michael called the plane .
13 She sat down at the table and looked with disfavour at the glass in front of her .
14 She sat down at the table for two Roman had selected , and tossed her hair back from her face ; Roman had pulled the pins out as soon as they had left the hotel and placed them in his pocket .
15 She sat down at the table and sipped at the dark , bitter brew self-consciously , aware of his eyes , cool and observant , upon her .
16 Candles burned on the table where they were to dine and as she sat down at the table she banished the sob for evermore .
17 They sat down at the table , and took out of their pockets packets of cigarettes , lighters and calculators , placing these objects carefully in front of them as if they were necessary equipment for some game they were about to play .
18 They sat down at the table .
19 They sat down at the table and Monks started immediately .
20 Now he looked down at the table top , then sideways at his colleagues and back at Cameron .
21 He leaned down on the table , a hollow-faced man , the concern for his family , the tension over his impending arrest , etching itself clearly around his eyes and mouth .
22 He sat down across the table from Gabriel , thinking what to say .
23 When his illness was at the active stage , he was very particular about keeping his own utensils separate from everyone else 's , and would joke about it , saying as he sat down at the table , ‘ Make way for the leper . ’
24 When he had finished his chores he sat down at the table and copied out ‘ I am William Beech ’ over and over again until Tom , after much effort , finally persuaded him to go for a run and exercise Sammy .
25 He sat down at the table now , and she pushed the bread board and the dripping towards him , saying , ‘ Want a piece of bacon ? ’
26 He sat down at the table and put his face in his hands .
27 ‘ What 's this queer stuff ? ’ he would say , as he sat down at the table ; then : ‘ Hmm .
28 He sat down at the table and began eating without tasting the food .
29 Then he sat down at the table and started to work again .
30 He sat down at the table again and began to read .
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