Example sentences of "it on the [noun] table " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yvonne would come and stay , and she 'd always bring a fish with her , a huge fish freshly caught from the ocean , and she 'd gut it on the kitchen table . |
| 2 | She put it on the kitchen table now but suspected it would still be lumps of ice when they came to eat it . |
| 3 | He screwed up the paper and threw it on the kitchen table . |
| 4 | Usually when she got home with the bread Léonie dumped it on the kitchen table . |
| 5 | Patrick absent-mindedly accepted a cup and put it on the kitchen table beside him . |
| 6 | I washed and sterilised it and put it on the hall table , beside the front door . |
| 7 | I wrote a note to Leon , left it on the hall table for him to find when he came down at God knows what time , and went into breakfast . |
| 8 | ‘ The dear man knows that I collect swans , ’ she explained to Merrill and Richard , ‘ and he left it on the hall table with my name on a label around its neck . |
| 9 | She drained her glass and laid it on the cane table . |
| 10 | Setting it on the saloon table , and inhaling the delicious combination of smells , Polly went up the companionway ladder to call Nathan . |
| 11 | Emmie took the mug and put it on the night table . |
| 12 | ‘ Put it on the writing table , Joanna . ’ |
| 13 | He closed the book at once and put it on the bedside table . |
| 14 | Pat poured the doctor out a cup of tea and placed it on the bedside table . |
| 15 | He placed it on the bedside table . |
| 16 | Donna took the envelope upstairs with her and laid it on the bedside table . |
| 17 | We scoff at the pretentious person who buys the Tatler to exhibit it on the coffee table , so why should we not view with less than admiration the newspaper which bribes its readers to buy it for reasons other than its content ? |
| 18 | Creed had just produced a pile of leather stuff and dumped it on the coffee table . |
| 19 | You might like to know that the water alone in this aquarium is going to weigh 400lb ( 182kg ) , without the rocks , gravel and all the glass , so do n't position it on the coffee table . |
| 20 | Rose left it on the coffee table by her husband 's chair , and when he had had his usual mixed fry-up and was preparing to have his snooze , his eye caught it as it lay there . |
| 21 | The phone was working again , the engineer had scribbled on the back of an envelope , and he was very sorry he had broken the table lamp standing next to it on the coffee table . |
| 22 | The bell rang again insistently and I replaced the file in the folder , put it on the coffee table and went out into the hall . |
| 23 | And just put it on the coffee table , but keep it away from those books . |
| 24 | So Noel 's gone oh someone tripped me up , I fell down the stairs and hit it on the coffee table , right ! |
| 25 | Noel said he 'd hit it on the coffee table ! |
| 26 | When she took it from the oven she was pleased with it , but later , placing it on the trestle table in the hall where refreshments were to be served , she saw that Sister Dew 's was higher . |