Example sentences of "[vb base] the table " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 It really echoes when you bang the table .
3 10.30am : Lay the table .
4 Lay the table , children .
5 ‘ 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 . ’
6 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
7 MAKE the table look attractive by varying the height of displayed foods .
8 Mm , scratch the table , yeah !
9 Add character and charisma : if the room is quite large but lacks personality , simply change some of the existing pieces of furniture : replace the table with an old pine one and add some old pine chairs ( available in most junk shops ) ; swap some units for a pine dresser ; paint chairs cheerful colours ; replace posters with a cork or fabric-covered notice-board .
10 grab the table quick .
11 Thus , if I touch the table-leg , by doing so I necessarily touch the table ; if the tea-pot handle is broken , so is the tea-pot , and so on .
12 Decorate the table and dishes with little flags , coloured umbrellas and a few jelly cases filled with pretty coloured sweets .
13 Spread the Christmas word and decorate the table with new linen — and treat the kitchen to a festive tea towel .
14 Yeah , put the table up then .
15 Th er er s drop-leaf tables are marvellous cos you get to the end of the side of your packing you see and you might have a gap just about the right size so in you put the wrapper you put the table in and you might have a little gap like left so you get the this the you get the er ironing board and put that in there .
16 Consider the table .
17 List the following table of points to be plotted on the right side of the graph , then complete the table of points for the reflected figure and draw it .
18 I had a close look at that table , obviously a matter of some interest and that 's the reason I return to this , as I read the table , there is a very substantial amount of double counting within it , for this reason , that all outstanding er planning permissions are included once , and there are then separate categories of allowance for all types of sites , namely large windfalls , conversions , small sites , and allocated sites , those are all put in , er or most of them are put in at thirteen years worth , that being the remainder of the plan period to two thousand and six , it will not have escaped you that if you include thirteen years worth all the existing commissions are part of that thirteen years , and so simplest approach to correct that table would simply to discount the outstanding commitments , because they 're all counted again as part of the thirteen years , I do have a secondary point that the allowance for conversions is very much higher than what seems to be happening , and in what is in the tables that er Mr Thomas drew it to your attention from the York City er appendix eight , so that er on on two counts , but mainly the double counting one there is a great deal of er erm optimism , if I can call it that , in that table .
19 Do n't riffle through papers , kick the table or drum fingers — all are sounds which are picked up by the microphone and have to be edited out .
20 Even before they had left , his PA , Caroline Amphlett , had come in to take away the tea cups and clear the table .
21 ‘ Do you mind if I clear the table ?
22 Why did she collect the knives and forks and clear the table ?
23 Oh right , right clear the table , let's
24 Some of them you remember the table we had a long time ago showing the reactivity of different elements , particularly the metals when we were looking at metals .
25 If you know the table 's going up in the air you know it 's time
26 Copy the table of place values above and fit these numbers into the correct places .
27 Copy the table and put these numbers in their places .
28 2 Copy the table , put the figures of the following lengths in their correct columns , then write each of the measurements in km and decimal parts of a km .
29 In order to answer the question , dichotomize the response variable and present the table in proportional terms .
30 Statistics alone are of little use in literary criticism , and I present the table more as a finding-list than anything else .
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