Example sentences of "at the kitchen table " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she 'd finished he sat at the kitchen table , watching her getting his tea ready , brooding . |
| 2 | She had expected to find them both still in bed , and was surprised by the noises from the kitchen , but she poked her head round the door and saw Maggie sitting at the kitchen table eating Weetabix in a reassuringly healthy way . |
| 3 | Meanwhile Maggie stayed sitting at the kitchen table . |
| 4 | Catriona Stewart sells her patch boxes to some of the most exclusive shops in the country , yet she still works at the kitchen table ‘ with meals , toys and people all around ’ . |
| 5 | Supper at the kitchen table — bread coarsely cut and buttered , with none of the little refinements that were considered necessary for the family , who ate in another room . |
| 6 | Jane poured two whiskies which they both drank neat , at the kitchen table . |
| 7 | His Dad sat down at the kitchen table with the paper . |
| 8 | Dot sat in her coat at the kitchen table and watched Mrs Hollidaye heaping thick slices of bread spread with yellow butter on to a plate while Loopy Lil set out pretty teacups Patterned with roses on to matching saucers . |
| 9 | He was sitting at the kitchen table , wearing one of Buddie 's shirts and sipping cocoa from a large cup , when his nanny , Buddie 's mam , arrived at the house . |
| 10 | Now he sat at the kitchen table with the worm-cake before him and the taste of nausea already on his tongue . |
| 11 | Seated at the kitchen table , he began the long , tedious task of hacksawing all but eight inches off the barrels of the President 's twelve-gauge . |
| 12 | He sat down at the kitchen table and picked up the hacksaw . |
| 13 | Laura was ironing at the kitchen table , John sitting at the other end of the table with a bottle and glass in front of him . |
| 14 | They sat at the kitchen table sipping tea , waiting . |
| 15 | So he was sitting at the kitchen table eating his plate of beans when Donald walked in . |
| 16 | Teleworkers can operate at the kitchen table with a couple of filing cabinets tucked under it but most prefer to use a separate room they can shut the door on at the end of the day . |
| 17 | She slammed the boot down , with a cry of ‘ God Almighty ! ’ and ran indoors , where she sat down at the kitchen table and beat her fists against the wood , with anger , with frustration , with a sudden , desperate concern for Nick . |
| 18 | Ask yourself : did conflict regularly occur in certain areas — at the kitchen table for example ? |
| 19 | Matilda , who was perched on a tall stool at the kitchen table , ate her bread and jam slowly . |
| 20 | of the two wooden chairs at the kitchen table and looked rather helplessly at the card with its seven clearly written digits , then glanced round as if seeking inspiration where to put it for safe keeping . |
| 21 | Piladu 's wife , peeling artichokes in the gloom at the kitchen table , put down her knife and accepted the milk without a word . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He watched Ewen steadily , while the constable , who had seated himself at the kitchen table , was taking notes . |
| 25 | He sat at the kitchen table . |
| 26 | Later , while sitting at the kitchen table making a special list of people to help with Easter flowers , and a subsidiary list of those who might be approached to donate Easter lilies , Anna and her conscience had a little tussle . |
| 27 | Peter had heard all this , sitting at the kitchen table with a cup of tea , and a sandwich made for him by Anna to sustain him to the far side of compline . |
| 28 | Roy had sat Janine at the kitchen table and was standing beside her . |
| 29 | She spooned four heaped spoonfuls of sugar into it and some condensed milk and sat at the kitchen table . |
| 30 | Janine was now sitting at the kitchen table smoking a cigarette . |