Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [prep] the table " in BNC.
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| 1 | A queue had formed by the table holding the teacakes and a crowd gathered to watch the animal sacrifice slowly rotating on a giant spit . |
| 2 | ‘ Now pick me up and run , ’ ordered the Thing , before the shards had spilled across the table . |
| 3 | Irene had fallen across the table . |
| 4 | A little more of the same , ’ he said to the waitress who had come to the table with Harvey 's coffee and was watching Signor fragolli with close interest . |
| 5 | They were bare and shabby and if it had not been for the pretty yellow cloths she had made for the tables and the yellow and orange cushions she had covered for the chairs and the blue vase full of roses she had asked Maria to place on the chest of drawers , then they would have been dismal indeed . |
| 6 | Mariana had moved to the table where he had left the map . |
| 7 | Many clubs employed ‘ cravat-looseners ’ whose sole job was to make sure that those who had slid beneath the table through no fault of their own , were not about to be choked by their clothing . |
| 8 | She started to wish that she had stayed at the table . |
| 9 | It occurred after Doreen had reached across the table to rest her hand on Silas 's arm , ‘ Silas , darling , ’ she 'd cooed sweetly . |
| 10 | Mechanically , he picked up the wine bottle and offered refills , but gloom had settled over the table and no one was interested . |
| 11 | As he finished tying the cravat into an acceptable knot he saw that one of the cheese-knives had stuck to the table linen by virtue of the butter that had been left on it . |
| 12 | I poured myself some more coffee from the jug Sorrel had left on the table . |
| 13 | Some of the brothers were busy in the scriptorium but I was greeted courteously and no one objected when I began to leaf through the manuscript Southgate had left upon the table . |
| 14 | If she looked at her father with tolerance on that first night it was because his flattering of Giovanna had resulted in the table being elaborately laid on the terrace , fresh candles put in the brass candlesticks , and flowers in a big green and white pottery jug set in the centre of the table . |
| 15 | She smiled at Matt across the bowl of fruit he had put on the table , her perceptions heightened by the relaxed atmosphere of the evening , very much aware of the bloom on the grapes , the green of the apples , the soft fuzz on the peaches . |
| 16 | In some instances proposals for action had lain on the table of the Council of Ministers ( the body which makes Community law ) since the early 1970s ! |
| 17 | ‘ He 's having a working lunch in his office , ’ explained Daphne , who had returned to the table for a second helping . |