Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] the table " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Fry went straight to the kitchen , told us to sit down at the table , opened the oven ( split-level cooker , of course ) and got out a huge pot . |
| 2 | Then he would have been able to sit down at the table , loosen his shirt collar , his shoelaces , and read the evening paper until Patsy was ready . |
| 3 | They say they are looking forward to seeing him soon , and that he will be safely with them to sit down at the table and enjoy the feast of the next Thanksgiving dinner . |
| 4 | ‘ I see nothing to celebrate , ’ said Charlotte Feaver , the first to sit down at the table despite what lay upon it . |
| 5 | You get a nice space to sit down at the table |
| 6 | Despite the growth of the disabled people 's movement these paper professionals still think it quite normal to sit down round the table and decide what 's best for us . |
| 7 | Six months ago he was the first to say publicly , ‘ The Government will have to sit down round the table with the terrorists . ’ |
| 8 | During the silence that followed Joe experienced the most odd feeling , for he had the desire to reach out across the table and to take her hand : not Maggie 's , but this woman 's , the hand of this woman who would never see sixty again . |
| 9 | What , the two er eldest have to wash up and she has to sweep up round the table . |
| 10 | Their faces took on a different expression ; they grew more spruce and upright of bearing , ceased to loll about on the tables or against the walls , and held themselves up . |
| 11 | We 'll have to encourage him to put in on the table . |
| 12 | A consultant with fly-away silver hair and an offensively breezy manner asks Kate to pop up on the table and just pop her pants down . |
| 13 | Glad to hear they are not going to end up on the table . |