Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] at [art] kitchen table " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 After making the tea she sat at the kitchen table to drink it , and was still sitting there when dawn broke .
3 They sat at the kitchen table sipping tea , waiting .
4 They sat at the kitchen table with the manuscript between them .
5 When she 'd finished he sat at the kitchen table , watching her getting his tea ready , brooding .
6 Now he sat at the kitchen table with the worm-cake before him and the taste of nausea already on his tongue .
7 He sat at the kitchen table .
8 Bleakly , he sat at the kitchen table eating spaghetti bolognaise out of a tin .
9 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 .
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