Example sentences of "[prep] the table at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Seeing that Mother Hampton was dead-drunk under the table at the Jolly Waterman when Rose Bailey went for her , a fine job she would have made of it . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Time for some fresh air girls , ’ Billy spoke and rose from the table at the same time . |
| 3 | In the table at the right of Figure 1 I have given rough figures for the numbers of neurons and synapses in the human neocortex . |
| 4 | There 's only about er what is it four teams below them in the table at the moment and a defeat today would be a serious blow for them . |
| 5 | I only want to speak at this juncture on the element of that which is due to lower mortality as I call it , I E deaths and this is addressed in paragraph five and in the table at the bottom which shows an effect of about two thousand er extra households , due to lower mortality rate assumptions in our projections . |
| 6 | He stands there , carving knife and fork poised over the remains of the gigot aux haricots , and looks inquiringly round the table at the brightly coloured shirts and three-piece suits , and sees , beneath the surface , emaciated men in rags and footclouts , holding out tin bowls for a little soup , their eyes reflecting the freezing emptiness of the tundra . |
| 7 | The fear followed him on to the table at the Rothmans and the man who had pillaged nine titles last season lost to world No 52 Tony Chappel — a player who had managed to take just one frame off him in two previous meetings . |
| 8 | They waited tea for another twenty minutes , before Beth addressed the two impatient children with the solemn words , ‘ If the others do n't have the good manners to come to the table at the proper time , then we 'll start without them . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Your piece box is on the table at the door . ’ |
| 10 | When Auntie Jean slammed Uncle Ted 's tea on the table at the end of each day — a meat pie and chips , or a nice bit of rump steak and tartar sauce ( he had n't the nerve yet to go vegetarian ) — she sat opposite him with a stiff drink and demanded facts about Eva and Dad . |
| 11 | Goblin Fanatics are not placed on the table at the start of the game like other troops . |
| 12 | I do n't think this is the time to discuss what we 're going to do in the future , we 've actually got on the table at the moment a proposal to purchase that land . |
| 13 | The only thing on the table at the moment is whether we pursue the option to purchase this year . |
| 14 | The countries whose applications for membership are officially on the table at the time of writing are Austria ( which applied as long ago as 1989 ) , Sweden , Finland , Malta , Cyprus and Turkey . |
| 15 | It should be on the table at the back . |
| 16 | Holly looked across the table at the stubby , round-faced little fellow who breathed a cheerfulness that was alien here . |
| 17 | Dieter glared across the table at the others , his voice harsh and angry . |
| 18 | He sat at the table at the upstairs window , as Montaine used to sit in her room in the smallholding , overlooking a view much like the one she loved over heathland towards the forest . |
| 19 | Looking around the table at the other men , Michael pointed at Tommy . |