Example sentences of "at the [noun sg] table [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes children must wait for an empty chair at the milk table before they can sit down . |
| 2 | Penelope sat down at the dressing table and tried to do something to her hair . |
| 3 | She helped him to the kitchen , as that seemed to be the best place for him for the moment , and sat him down at the kitchen table while she went and got a towel . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He sat down at the kitchen table and picked up the hacksaw . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Roy had sat Janine at the kitchen table and was standing beside her . |
| 9 | She sat down opposite him at the kitchen table and fixed him with the kind of look that usually preceded a full eighteen-round contest . |
| 10 | ‘ Bob 's got his girl-friend staying with him , ’ he said to Jannie , still grinning , as he sat down at the kitchen table and sipped absently at the cup of coffee which had appeared there . |
| 11 | Anne was chopping mint at the kitchen table and the sound of the Salvation Army band playing as usual on the corner of the street drifted through the open window . |
| 12 | John feels better , so he comes down to sit at the kitchen table and chat . |
| 13 | Peggy sat down at the kitchen table and looked at the mail . |
| 14 | Dumping her bags in the bedroom , she sat down at the kitchen table and began to sift lethargically through the pile of accumulated mail , from time to time eyeing the phone in the hall . |
| 15 | She went and sat down at the stone table and Jack sank down opposite her . |
| 16 | He began to walk towards the Monument in the glare of the headlights , then he sat down at the stone table and beckoned . |
| 17 | He had actually slumped down at the breakfast table before he became aware of Kelly 's presence . |
| 18 | He waved a hand at the bar table and the array of bottles and glasses laid out there . |
| 19 | President Bush and his former Secretary of State James Baker were widely credited with having brought Israel and its Arab neighbours together at the negotiating table and with having maintained the momentum of the process . |
| 20 | She sat with Nellie and Brigid Drennan , Tommy 's wife , at the corner table and never said much the whole night . |
| 21 | They settled with their drinks at the corner table and the young man shook hands with Patrick , apologising for his bad manners . |
| 22 | There were fairly frequent serious and ‘ humorous ’ comments made in the staffroom and at the dinner table that I sometimes challenged . |
| 23 | To please him , she travelled , learnt languages , read all the guide books to the cities he insisted they visit , became a sexual virtuoso , developed opinions on the classics and on contemporary literature , and learnt never to voice them at the dinner table unless asked . |
| 24 | But I found it too embarrassing to keep suggesting to a fellow professional that he should take time off from his own work to accompany me to functions where he was not able to join me at the dinner table when he got there . |
| 25 | Norm was more pleasant at the dinner table when the boys were not there . |
| 26 | When they were not in chapel , at the dinner table or in their beds , there was nothing at all to do in the house except join the endless gossiping sessions with which João 's sisters and cousins filled their idle hours . |
| 27 | She sat again at the dinner table and saw in the candlelight Hilary Robarts 's dark , discontented eyes staring intently at Alex Mair ; watched the planes of Miles Lessingham 's face fitfully lit by the leaping flames of the fire , saw his long-fingered hands reaching down for the bottle of claret , heard again that measured rather high voice speaking the unspeakable . |
| 28 | Waldegrave had no seat at the cabinet table and his superiors were more interested in the privatisation of council houses . |
| 29 | On March 11 1938 , when Hitler 's troops entered Austria , Rixi Markus was at the bridge table as usual . |
| 30 | Groups or pairs of ladies , often sisters or cousins , ran hotels of the kind she required and they understood the necessity for quietness and a late-night pot of tea , for Egyptian cotton sheets and a hot water bottle and plenty of cushions , for sufficient pastries at the tea table and permission to have one 's own wireless set in the bedroom . |