Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [vb past] [prep] the table " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stared unseeingly down at the red stain on the Chester 's blue and green flowered fabric , then gathered her wits to dab at it slowly with her heavy cream damask napkin she took from the table . |
| 2 | The look she cast across the table said clearly that she personally intended to make sure that was the case , and Shannon felt a strange little shiver in her spine . |
| 3 | After supper on the first night we sat round the table in anticipation of the promised induction talk . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's forgotten , ’ I said , but my own hand was trembling a little as it reached to take the unsteady , hairy hand he offered across the table . |
| 5 | Rune 's tone was casual , but there was nothing lazy about the way he leaned across the table towards her . |
| 6 | By the time they returned to the table for the Christmas pudding John Harbour had moved and there was nowhere for her to sit except beside O'Hara . |
| 7 | Further along the village another house used to be the ‘ cookhouse ’ and game room for them — the meals must have been cold by the time they arrived at the table of Londesborough Lodge ! |