Example sentences of "[be] sitting [prep] the table " in BNC.
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| 1 | Donna looked at him again , wondering why she felt so guilty to be sitting at the table with this man . |
| 2 | It was wonderful that they should all be sitting round the table , laughing . |
| 3 | My mother would probably be the nearest one to it er sat at the corner near the fire and all the kids would be sitting round the table doing something you know . |
| 4 | The best time to get people to talk about themselves is when you are sitting around the table over a meal or having tea , and when they are relaxed and are not likely to be diverted by other activities . |
| 5 | I had been sitting at the table housed in the living room bay window , trying to write a paper for a tutorial the next day , but Gavin and Janice had chosen to punctuate their highly audible coupling sessions ( in what the more tenacious core-areas of my long-term memory still sporadically insisted had once been my bedroom ) with an almost equally noisy episode of tortilla chip eating . |
| 6 | Peter had been sitting at the table on which there was a mug of tea and a brightly coloured magazine . |
| 7 | The others were sitting at the table . |
| 8 | The only occupants of the room were a couple of young men who were sitting at the table , smoking Turkish cigarettes . |
| 9 | Booked by the hour , the previous occupants were sitting by the table watching their six-year-old child poke a cue at the remaining balls . |
| 10 | Once we were sitting round the table and the landlady 's son said , ‘ Give me the butter . ’ |
| 11 | A short time later they were sitting round the table . |
| 12 | Mummy the dog 's sitting near the table . |
| 13 | ‘ By 6pm Mrs Kinnock was sitting under the table assisting at least two journalists who were the worse for wear to place calls to London on their mobile phones . ’ |
| 14 | He took the list , that list right there , and he went like this with it — I was sitting across the table — and he said , ‘ For someone who has seen so much war as you have , North , you should understand that I want to end the war on terms that are acceptable to Iran . |
| 15 | Irina was sitting on the table . |
| 16 | When I got back to the block there it was sitting on the table beside the empty bowls waiting for soup : an extra biscuit each , spread with liver paste , and half a quarter pound slab of chocolate . |
| 17 | She was sitting at the table with her chocolate cooling in the mug between her hands . |
| 18 | Her father , a hale old man over seventy , with a fresh colour and benignant expression , was sitting at the table finishing his meal . |
| 19 | Sergeant Hanafin was sitting at the table with Peg O'Malley . |
| 20 | Sonny was sitting at the table with his mother . |
| 21 | Yvonne was sitting at the table with a cheroot and a tall glass of wine . |
| 22 | Tom was sitting at the table , glueing coloured paper chains together . |
| 23 | Uncle Albert was sitting at the table , with a cup of tea , head buried in the newspaper . |
| 24 | Will was sitting at the table , and looked pleased to see me . |
| 25 | Farrell was sitting at the table in the room , thumbing 9mm bullets into two magazines for the UZI . |
| 26 | When she came downstairs Betty was sitting at the table . |
| 27 | She walked into the kitchen and Phil was sitting at the table . |
| 28 | She was sitting at the table , her fingers clasped beneath her chin . |
| 29 | When the flat door opened , Rachaela was sitting at the table . |
| 30 | By the time she reached the bottom he had the saloon deck hatch open and was sitting at the table . |