Example sentences of "[vb past] at the kitchen [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ’ He turned at the kitchen door .
2 I have to make a phone call , but — ’ she glanced at the kitchen clock , ‘ — I think it 's a bit too early . ’
3 Lizzy looked at the kitchen clock and squealed .
4 She was struggling to cut the meat into what the book described as bite-size chunks when Edward appeared at the kitchen door .
5 The image experienced in a flash of gold , a flush of warmth to her face , was so vivid that for a second she hesitated at the kitchen door as if disorientated .
6 ‘ I 'd mind yerself , Lily , ’ Doyle said at the kitchen door .
7 ‘ Did you call the police ? ’ he asked , as he stood at the kitchen door watching her brew Darjeeling .
8 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 .
9 When she 'd finished he sat at the kitchen table , watching her getting his tea ready , brooding .
10 Now he sat at the kitchen table with the worm-cake before him and the taste of nausea already on his tongue .
11 They sat at the kitchen table sipping tea , waiting .
12 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 .
13 He sat at the kitchen table .
14 She spooned four heaped spoonfuls of sugar into it and some condensed milk and sat at the kitchen table .
15 Bleakly , he sat at the kitchen table eating spaghetti bolognaise out of a tin .
16 They sat at the kitchen table with the manuscript between them .
17 After making the tea she sat at the kitchen table to drink it , and was still sitting there when dawn broke .
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