Example sentences of "table [prep] the corner " in BNC.

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1 I can hardly see the things on the table in the corner .
2 They sat down at a low table in the corner , under a poster for the Campus Crèche and facing posters for the Pregnancy Advisory Service — ‘ A woman has a right to decide about her own body .
3 They sat at a table in the corner of the restaurant .
4 He had been sitting at a table in the corner reading an Italian newspaper and Sandison had hardly paid him any attention .
5 As I walked back from the bar with my second pint I caught sight of Karen and Dennis at a table in the corner .
6 The table in the corner .
7 Sitting at a table in the corner so that they can see the door , catch the others ' eyes when they come in .
8 Mitch sat down at the small round table in the corner .
9 At another house the officer noticed a low table in the corner with a dust-free area in the exact shape of a TV .
10 ‘ I 'll be over there , ’ Graham cut in sharply and indicated an empty table in the corner of the room .
11 He looked about the room , conscious suddenly of the lowness of the ceiling , of the dark oak beams that divided up the whitewashed walls , the fresh cut roses in a silver bowl on the table in the corner .
12 Pavel sat alone at a table in the corner of the police cafeteria .
13 At a table in the corner three young girls sat , smoking and chatting quietly , occasionally glancing across at the two policemen .
14 Diane had got them a table in the corner and had spread the notes and articles out .
15 Along with hope in a future not bound by the rough blankets rubbing at her chin , the cobwebbed ceiling above her head , the tiny window , the table in the corner , the hard wooden chair , the threadbare rug , the wax-choked candlestick , the bucket , the crucifix , the chain trailing from the bed-post to her wrist beneath the covers .
16 A little of the festive warmth seemed to die out of the air as they took their places around the low coffee table in the corner of the great hangar .
17 I took a pile of the French and American magazines that lay on a table in the corner and went out under the colonnade .
18 The table in the corner of the terrace glittered , an unexpectedly formal island of glass and silver in the darkness .
19 The canteen at TV London was largely deserted at half past ten the next morning when Dexter and Blanche sat down at a table in the corner of the self-service section .
20 Linda herself was doing her homework at the table in the corner .
21 ‘ Look , sir , ’ said Poole , pointing to a small table in the corner .
22 The dry look he threw her over his shoulder as they followed the waiter to a small table in the corner stung her cheeks with colour .
23 Sir John commandeered a table in the corner , greeting the ale wife as if she was a long lost sister .
24 He ordered a pastis for himself and a pineau de Charentes for Sabine , then sat down with her at a table in the corner .
25 Grunte , who had been made very welcome indeed , noticed a table in the corner of the Headmaster 's study , laid for four persons .
26 When I turned Fox was sitting on the end of the table in the corner , lighting another cigarette .
27 They were shown to a small table in the corner , next to a life-sized plaster wolf .
28 At a table in the corner Coffin saw his friend , Philip Jordan , communicator of the news about Mossycop .
29 Just gon na have to go on the little table in the corner right between
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