Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] table " in BNC.
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| 1 | She almost staggered back to the kitchen table and sat down and as she did so the kitchen clock struck nine . |
| 2 | This was followed by a film of a mediaeval banquet at which the guests , after much lusty eating and drinking , undressed one another at a leisurely pace , then climbed on to the refectory table for a general post , to the accompaniment on the sound track of much wheezing and grunting . |
| 3 | He thought he would not begin on all that , so he got up from the kitchen table . |
| 4 | Kitty slouched off again while Charlie got up from the kitchen table carrying the remainder of the pie in his fingers . |
| 5 | Then Tobermory entered the room and calmly walked over to the tea table . |
| 6 | A little later , holding a mug of coffee carefully in both hands , she walked back to the hall table to retrieve the ring . |
| 7 | I settled down at the kitchen table with a jug of fresh orange juice , a bowl of fruit at my elbow , and the newspapers before me . |
| 8 | She went into the living room where she settled down at the dining table to mark compositions . |
| 9 | Then she settled down at the dining-room table with her book purchases , which she had picked at random from the shelves of Tollemarche 's only book store and from the racks of one of the cigar stores . |
| 10 | His next venture , worked out on the kitchen table and launched in November 1953 , was called Playboy and concerned adults ' activities of an uninhibited kind . |
| 11 | Athelstan went over to the window and stared down at the chess table . |
| 12 | Laura reached over to the bedside table , a Sheraton satinwood cabinet , with cross-banded doors flanked by pilasters inlaid with husk chains . |
| 13 | Fabia reached over to the bedside table for her watch . |
| 14 | I went over to the laboratory table where the new creature was lying . |
| 15 | And she teased her out and straightened her up a little , and then she went over to the makeup table and tore off a length of the soft toilet roll that she used instead of Kleenex , and then she sat on the floor beside Lucy and put her arm around her shoulders . |
| 16 | She went over to the dining table and , in the hope of drowning her worries in work , sat down . |
| 17 | They left it there , and went back to the breakfast table , to their unfinished bowls of café au lait . |
| 18 | He cut Donald a generous slice of untainted leg , and went back to the dining table . |
| 19 | After a while she locked the door again , got up and went back to the glass table . |
| 20 | He did his best to ignore it , failed , and reached out to the bedside table where it sat , throwing the receiver off its cradle and returning to her in one graceless motion . |
| 21 | He felt around for the bedside table and the box of matches . |
| 22 | His father put down his glass with a bang , so that the beer slopped over on the side table . |
| 23 | The little robot animal jumped on to the Star Table . |
| 24 | The four went back to No. 43 , in a close tender group , Jim as king , as victor , and , unwilling that the evening should be lost , they sat on around the kitchen table , sentinelled by the yellow forsythia , and could not bear to part . |
| 25 | And Charlie , believing none of it and letting her see as much , slid down from the makeup table and went over to the door . |
| 26 | Penelope sat down at the dressing table and tried to do something to her hair . |
| 27 | After walking round the dining-room with my memories I sat down at the stone table . |
| 28 | She went and sat down at the stone table and Jack sank down opposite her . |
| 29 | He began to walk towards the Monument in the glare of the headlights , then he sat down at the stone table and beckoned . |
| 30 | His Dad sat down at the kitchen table with the paper . |