Example sentences of "sit at the table " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many are the times me wife and I have sat at the table with a large sheet of graph paper and worked it all out , only to find that either my ruler 's idea of an inch does n't tally with the real thing , or the width of a pencil line on the plan actually equates to a foot in real life . |
| 2 | In the kitchen she found Rodney stirring the contents of two saucepans and Veronica , John and a young man she did not know sitting at the table drinking wine . |
| 3 | The others were sitting at the table . |
| 4 | In the kitchen she found Veronica cooking and Rodney sitting at the table writing a list . |
| 5 | She was sitting at the table with her chocolate cooling in the mug between her hands . |
| 6 | She turned and saw him still sitting at the table . |
| 7 | Sitting at the table in North 's office , they communicated by passing notes to each other , even notes that merely inquired when they ought to meet up again . |
| 8 | When I 'd left the horse in the yard and gone in for breakfast I found both Mackie and Sam Yaeger sitting at the table with Tremayne , all of them discussing that day 's racing at Nottingham . |
| 9 | He slept , sitting at the table , the towel his pillow . |
| 10 | Her father , a hale old man over seventy , with a fresh colour and benignant expression , was sitting at the table finishing his meal . |
| 11 | As I remember it was one morning a little while after my father and Miss Kenton had joined the staff , I had been in my pantry , sitting at the table going through my paperwork , when I heard a knock on my door . |
| 12 | defiance of house rules ( e.g. breaking rules about playing with matches , about not switching on the TV before the children 's programmes begin , about sitting at the table until the meal is finished , or about not taking food out of the fridge without permission ) ; |
| 13 | Sergeant Hanafin was sitting at the table with Peg O'Malley . |
| 14 | Sonny was sitting at the table with his mother . |
| 15 | Yvonne was sitting at the table with a cheroot and a tall glass of wine . |
| 16 | He watched his dejected figure walk past him into the cottage and , after allowing a few minutes to elapse , followed him in and discovered him sitting at the table in the living room , his bag of apples and sandwich lying untouched . |
| 17 | Tom was sitting at the table , glueing coloured paper chains together . |
| 18 | On sitting at the table to enjoy marvellous victuals and music , he saw that a servant was actually the GHOST of his recently dead neighbour . |
| 19 | Anyway he was at home that day , home for lunch , and he and Beryl were actually sitting at the table , talking as it happened about going down soon to take a look at the Hall , when Adam came in . |
| 20 | I was starving ; it was hours since either of us had eaten but Mrs Lewis made me wash my hands before sitting at the table . |
| 21 | Simple reward charts can be used to reinforce either sitting at the table or finishing a meal for the 3-year-old and older . |
| 22 | ‘ I remember sitting at the table with my parents having dinner , and whole windows being blown in our face , because there 's a bomb in the next house . |
| 23 | And Albert Sandwich , sitting at the table with an open book where the light fell upon it . |
| 24 | Leaving the boy sitting at the table , he went back to his desk and phoned up to Kate . |
| 25 | Uncle Albert was sitting at the table , with a cup of tea , head buried in the newspaper . |
| 26 | Dressed in flowing trousers and a tunic of billowing rose — they let her have clothes , now , providing she chose them herself by drawing what it was she wanted — she spent hours sitting at the table in the artificial sun over the balcony , the day 's book-cube dangling forgotten from her fingers . |
| 27 | When the daily help came through the back door and into the kitchen , she found Beth sitting at the table , breathless and dishevelled . |
| 28 | She saw her mother sitting at the table , with a pen and some writing paper in front of her . |
| 29 | Will was sitting at the table , and looked pleased to see me . |
| 30 | I had been sitting at the table housed in the living room bay window , trying to write a paper for a tutorial the next day , but Gavin and Janice had chosen to punctuate their highly audible coupling sessions ( in what the more tenacious core-areas of my long-term memory still sporadically insisted had once been my bedroom ) with an almost equally noisy episode of tortilla chip eating . |