Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [prep] the table " in BNC.
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1 | Corbett thought it was mere drunken bravado when one of them lunged across the table and uproar ensued as food , cups and flagons of wine and ale were sent sprawling . |
2 | The theory was that the effort of changing would keep me pinned to the table , diligent and creative . |
3 | During my time at the DHSS I met over the table with three Chief Secretaries and , I have to admit , had battles with them all . |
4 | I rose from the table , went into the cell and flopped down on the hard wooden bed and was asleep almost immediately . |
5 | Then I looked at the table . |
6 | He shouted at me so I sat under the table and waited for him to put some food down . |
7 | In any case it would be better if I sat at the table , the light was better there and I should not get lazy . |
8 | I sat at the table we used to use and tried to think what I really believed . |
9 | I jumped to the table , picked up the plate and hurled it at him . |
10 | Its single dimension in a DIM statement would be the maximum number of names you expected in the table less 1 . |
11 | She passed around the table but slowly , and touched the back of one of the seventeen vacant chairs to steady herself . |
12 | Assume it 's okay , ’ and she rose from the table and went upstairs . |
13 | She rose from the table . |
14 | She rose from the table . |
15 | Julie murmured in a sceptical tone of voice as she rose from the table . |
16 | A faint wash of colour rose under her skin and she rose from the table and walked to the counter . |
17 | She moved to the table , put her keys down , suddenly realising she had been clutching them tightly . |
18 | Alina smiled , with some confidence but also a lot of apprehension still , and she moved around the table toward the door . |
19 | She stopped by the table and pressed a carved and gilded flower head . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | She gestured at the table . |
22 | They remained a week in the Ottoman capital , by no means long enough for Miss Logan to become accustomed to the coarse stares she received at the table d'hôte . |
23 | She turned to the table , yawning so that the tears came into her eyes . |
24 | She was sure that Doc D would approve of the Caroline Charles electric blue evening suit ( above , right ) : ‘ What a wonderful colour , darling , ’ he said as she walked to the table . |
25 | He turned and watched blearily as she walked to the table , picked up the empty glass and departed again without once raising her eyes to look at him . |
26 | When she returned to the table and began scooping the first of the curd into a mould , they felt her eyes burning into them , all three of them . |
27 | It was all ending so beautifully : the picnic , and Mr Evans being so nice , and the ring and the knife , and now this last , lovely tea , with faces she loved round the table . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | She reached across the table and stroked Matthew 's face . |
30 | She looked at the table and nodded . |