Example sentences of "[verb] the table " in BNC.

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1 The man who kicks his car because it refuses to start ( and he has not checked the petrol gauge ) is not unlike the toddler who kicks the table for walking into him .
2 As I passed the table with the remains of the old man 's meal I saw what seemed to be the only form of ornament in the cottage , a cracked vase holding a magnificent bouquet of carnations .
3 He began to hit the table with his hand .
4 If we wind the table up another 6 places , 6 more teams who could be fighting for promotion and at the Manor tomorrow , it is Oxford take versus Grimsby .
5 Louise straightened the table a little too ostentatiously .
6 upset the tables of the money changers ;
7 We pulled out walls and plastered and rewired ; we plumbed in new sinks and lavatories and decorated and tiled ; we built a bar and made the tables and laid the floor ; we leased the equipment and bought a sign which read ‘ Malynkis ’ — an amalgam of Malc and Lynne .
8 The all-important cost of £64 made the table cheaper than making a similar model from scratch , and the fence proved accurate enough for rebating and jointing .
9 It is then simply a question of using the tables to avoid oversight .
10 unc Since the metric system follows the place value method used in the decimal system , changing lengths from metres to decimetres , centimetres or millimetres can be done easily using the table of metric length .
11 has to be set , cos your dad was using the table .
12 Using the table two , where 's that ?
13 Jacqueline , starved of toast soldiers , had slid from her chair and , having circled the table , was starting to de-gut the loaf of bread .
14 Sophie lowered the table and the two of them hoisted the surprised dog on to it and raised the table to a convenient height .
15 Holding each massive paw firmly , Sophie clipped the nails to the right length then lowered the table .
16 ‘ She always upsets the table . ’
17 Spoils the table .
18 It really echoes when you bang the table .
19 He harrowed hell with the same spiritual vigour with which he had overturned the tables of the money-changers in the temple , and the faithful dead were set free .
20 10.30am : Lay the table .
21 Lay the table , children .
22 ‘ Right — now you can watch telly again for ten minutes while I lay the table — or you can go out and see Daddy and his friends if you want . ’
23 She goes in the thirteenth and hopefully will be out the twenty third , I realize this is a big operation but I want Cheryl to come along anyway , book the table , stay with us , come with us If she could n't make it which she 'll be in so I do understand that
24 So it 'll be nice to see the tables turned , and Mr start , keep rather quiet about the number of extra policemen , sorry , police officers needed in this county , and other counties in the country , because he 'll have to pay for it himself wo n't he ?
25 We also scrubbed and polished the floors , washed the windows , laid the tables , did the dishes . ’
26 She would have rustled up a little casserole or coq au vin while he laid the table beautifully .
27 Whistling to himself , Henry laid the table , while , in the corner of the kitchen , Maisie finished her last chocolate bar and got to work on a packet of crisps , a tube of Rollos , half a pound of jellybabies and a jumbo bar of Turkish delight .
28 Then she cooked pasta and shredded chicken and chopped fruit and nuts and sliced black bread and made beetroot soup and prepared sour cream and a cheese board and polished wine glasses and put butter in lemon-coloured dishes and made salad dressings and laid the table and set a serviette decorated with a Groucho Marx face by the side of each place .
29 Ginny laid the table while Barbara broke four eggs in a bowl and whisked them vigorously .
30 She laid the table in the kitchen , putting out the bread and a big bowl of dripping , and then made the cocoa .
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