Example sentences of "she [vb past] [prep] the table " in BNC.
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| 1 | She passed around the table but slowly , and touched the back of one of the seventeen vacant chairs to steady herself . |
| 2 | Assume it 's okay , ’ and she rose from the table and went upstairs . |
| 3 | She rose from the table . |
| 4 | She rose from the table . |
| 5 | Julie murmured in a sceptical tone of voice as she rose from the table . |
| 6 | A faint wash of colour rose under her skin and she rose from the table and walked to the counter . |
| 7 | She moved to the table , put her keys down , suddenly realising she had been clutching them tightly . |
| 8 | Alina smiled , with some confidence but also a lot of apprehension still , and she moved around the table toward the door . |
| 9 | She stopped by the table and pressed a carved and gilded flower head . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She gestured at the table . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She turned to the table , yawning so that the tears came into her eyes . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | She reached across the table and stroked Matthew 's face . |
| 20 | She looked at the table and nodded . |
| 21 | She went into the dining-room , where the tea was set , and she looked over the table as if there she would find something missing . |
| 22 | Paul had been placed next to her , and when she looked across the table she caught Nicholas ' eye with its suggestion of complicity . |
| 23 | She leant across the table to wipe his face with her napkin and knocked his glass of wine into his lap . |
| 24 | She went to the table , closed her hand around a bottle and slid it into her skirt pocket . |
| 25 | She lay on the table in the doctor 's surgery . |
| 26 | She smiled across the table , grateful that he 'd understood . |
| 27 | ‘ Do n't be so bloody crass ! ’ she hissed across the table . |
| 28 | She leaned on the table — her head jutting forward , wisps of iron-grey hair sticking from beneath the cap which she had not yet changed for a wig — and asked Midnight : ‘ What do y'know of the Captain 's affairs ? |
| 29 | For instance , sitting down with some of the battered wives , she leaned across the table , chin on hand , asking each woman in turn : ‘ How long can you stay here ? |
| 30 | Wordlessly , she leaned across the table and put her hand on his . |