Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] the table " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beads of sweat continued to form and drip on to the table . |
| 2 | I sit down to the table , and watch me , real men are n't like that are they ? and it locks |
| 3 | Guests are often late and rarely sit down at the table on time . |
| 4 | Please sit down at the table . |
| 5 | There 's plenty here , so if you clean yourself up and sit down at the table I 'll put something out for you too . |
| 6 | And there 's another sort of things now that we do n't hear is when you sit down at the table to eat erm they 're probably the most the hostess would say now would be , Help yourself . |
| 7 | She frowned , gazing down at the table , she even bared her teeth . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ I see nothing to celebrate , ’ said Charlotte Feaver , the first to sit down at the table despite what lay upon it . |
| 12 | You get a nice space to sit down at the table |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Six months ago he was the first to say publicly , ‘ The Government will have to sit down round the table with the terrorists . ’ |
| 15 | Tilda appeared with a ball of oozing clay in her arms which she flung down on the table . |
| 16 | I think about telling her that Andy was there , in his sleeping bag , listening the whole time , but while I 'm thinking about it something goes wrong ; there must have been a flaw in one of the glasses , or the weight is just too much , because there 's a cracking sound and one side of the pyramid starts to collapse , sending an avalanche of falling glass and frothing champagne spilling crashing down off the table and smashing , bouncing and splashing onto the mats and the floor below . |
| 17 | His fist crashed on to the table . |
| 18 | When she returned to the kitchen , she sank down at the table and tried to eat a little of the food , conscious that Craig was watching her . |
| 19 | Once inside the house , Hari lit the candle and sank down at the table , her eyes heavy with tiredness and unshed tears . |
| 20 | He looks down at the table , smiling , and draws a face by running his finger through a ring of beer . |
| 21 | They all stared at me wide-eyed and continued to stand and stare even after I had sat down at the table . |
| 22 | He glances down at the table , as if the answer might be written on a beer mat . |
| 23 | Ward 's left hand crashed down on the table , spilling coffee from the cup he had just filled . |
| 24 | Storming over to the table , she snatched up her briefcase and flicked it open . |
| 25 | He wandered over to the table . |
| 26 | The whistling and clicking of fingers roused Joy 's attention , so collecting her pad then pen she wandered over to the table on the right . |
| 27 | You 're a fool as well as surly , ’ said the boy , and stuck his neat , short nose in the air and bounced up from the table in dudgeon , but Harry caught him by the sleeve . |
| 28 | She tied a big red-and-white-striped drying-up cloth around each of their waists and made them kneel up to the table on chairs . |
| 29 | County NatWest , the merchant bank heavily censured by inspectors from the Department of Trade and Industry for its role in the Blue Arrow affair , has dropped out of the table for the first time . |
| 30 | During the meal a great spider crawled on to the table cloth and I went to kill it with the leg of chicken I was gnawing , but Benjamin stopped me . |