Example sentences of "[vb pp] the table " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jacqueline , starved of toast soldiers , had slid from her chair and , having circled the table , was starting to de-gut the loaf of bread . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The stem of the rose that he had decorated the table with had bent over so that the pink flower seemed to be praying , bowing , deferring . |
| 4 | Webb 's Crystal Glass Co. manufactured the table glass for Thomas Goode & Co . |
| 5 | He had moved the table under the direct light from the window , and was bending over the tough , cross-grained wood and the awkward knife with knit brows , breathing heavily . |
| 6 | The room-service waiter appeared with their order twenty minutes later and prepared the table in the sitting room . |
| 7 | His red beard has grown very long , right through the stone table ; when it has encircled the table three times it will be the time of awakening . |
| 8 | I 'll just have to check back I 've seen the table in this particular format . |
| 9 | He was diverted during coffee by a thumb nail sketch of that fruitless expedition , but by the time the sommelier had visited the table with Cognac a second time , he was back to the great danger of ennui in the BEF , and 2nd Grenadiers ’ seven months in France spent cultivating a defensive mentality which could well be disastrous if hostilities ever broke out . |
| 10 | Now Lucinda had noticed the table . |
| 11 | Right daddy , are you coming down to play or are you at least you 've got the table . |
| 12 | Right that one 's got the table on instead of the graphics . |
| 13 | er we we 've we 've agreed the table on on the base basis of erm information best information available a at the moment but but equally I would n't wish it to be seen th that I am in any way attempting to prejudge the outcome of er local plan studies , erm so the information that I 've agreed with with Mr C Cunnane is basically an attempt to clarify the tabulation fo er in |
| 14 | Even the waiters were excited , and they 've seen everyone — Clement Freud had just vacated the table next door . |
| 15 | And when , to show what a good little wife I had become — Nonni thought that my aunts did not ‘ appreciate ’ me , meaning that they did not go in for endearments or tell me how pretty I looked — she pointed out , one Sunday lunchtime , how well I had starched the table napkins , Aunt Lilian said , ‘ But why ? |
| 16 | Elke has laid the table for the evening meal and fried the eggs . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've set the table outside on the terrace , ’ Fernando told her , stepping through from the kitchen beyond . |
| 18 | ‘ And I 've scrubbed the table again . ’ |
| 19 | He suddenly grabbed the beer can and hurled it against the wall then upturned the table , sending it crashing against the cooker . |
| 20 | Er yes if you know if knocked the table any time they fall over , liable to set fire you see with the paraffin and that . |
| 21 | When he woke up his hair was in the soup and his head on the rim of the plate , and his hostess had left the table . |
| 22 | ‘ I honestly have n't studied the table too much , ’ said King yesterday . |
| 23 | She 'd covered the table with a snow-white cloth , and she lit a seven branched olive candelabra . |
| 24 | They keep being written off but they keep bouncing back with this the eighth time they have topped the table this season . |