Example sentences of "[verb] round [art] table " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know that my hon. Friend will understand if I say that I had some difficulty in persuading everybody to come round a table when I was talking only to the parties in Northern Ireland . |
| 2 | They 're only statues — I know that — but they look really real , just like a real family sitting round a table just about to eat their Christmas lunch . |
| 3 | All the right ingredients are there — from the swirling mist and the pounding of horses ' hooves to the small group huddled round a table in the kitchen at Foulrice Farm . |
| 4 | ‘ We need a group of sports representatives to sit round a table with a group of doctors and sort out what 's good and what 's bad . ’ |
| 5 | In the summer of 1914 Marevna drew Modigliani , Kisling , the Polish Jewish painter , and Soutine seated round a table . |
| 6 | The emphasis is rather the effect of the war on an American community ; the final scene , in which survivors sit round a table singing ‘ God Bless America ’ , is crucial , and symbolises the regenerative powers of an America that had survived both Vietnam and Watergate . |
| 7 | What we 'd like them to do is come clean sit round a table and talk about running it properly |
| 8 | I do n't want to be blown across the room in the first ten minutes so I hang back a little as we sit round the table with Anthony Hopkins and Campbell Scott to read the scene through and discuss it . |
| 9 | Then , at my insistence , all five of us sit round the table and write the scene together , line by line . |
| 10 | Doctors , health visitors , social workers and police — even parents — may sit round a table at a case conference ostensibly discussing a ‘ team decision ’ which is ‘ in the best interests of the child ’ . |
| 11 | Talk of segregation — you will sit with the men all right , you will sit round a table with them talking examination papers , you wo n't be at the table when the decanter goes round . |
| 12 | The live-and-let-live system could have been worked out by verbal negotiation , by conscious strategists bargaining round a table . |
| 13 | In 1986 , the Hart family sat round a table playing a game of ‘ What if … ? ’ |
| 14 | In my experience the best setting for groups or individuals is a comfortably furnished room , not too reverberant , with plain , unobtrusive decor and a choice of armchairs and upright chairs which are easily shifted depending on the particular grouping needed for the activity ( one-to-one discussion , four grouped round a table , two rows facing each other , a circle and so on ) . |