Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] at the [noun] table " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sat at the kitchen table , staring at the blind white blankness in front of me , and slowly , like a clear spring welling up from the common earth , the poem rose and spread and filled me , unstoppable as flood water , technique unknotting even as it ran , like snags rolled away on the flood . |
| 2 | She sat at the breakfast table , trying to calm her nerves , and eventually she drew the envelope from her housecoat pocket and opened it , reading the words that were written inside , and feeling the blood drain from her face . |
| 3 | After making the tea she sat at the kitchen table to drink it , and was still sitting there when dawn broke . |
| 4 | ‘ We sat at the head table … . |
| 5 | They sat at the kitchen table sipping tea , waiting . |
| 6 | They sat at the kitchen table with the manuscript between them . |
| 7 | This routine had been established for more than a year , so it was no surprise when one Sunday evening in early November , he announced at the supper table , ‘ Me and Maisie 's set a date . |
| 8 | When she 'd finished he sat at the kitchen table , watching her getting his tea ready , brooding . |
| 9 | Now he sat at the kitchen table with the worm-cake before him and the taste of nausea already on his tongue . |
| 10 | He sat at the kitchen table . |
| 11 | Bleakly , he sat at the kitchen table eating spaghetti bolognaise out of a tin . |
| 12 | The mail arrived early and he opened his letters as he sat at the breakfast table . |
| 13 | Not yesterday , Peter thought grimly , as he stood at the kitchen table laying the tea tray with his mother 's china ; but certainly last week or the week before . |