Example sentences of "sitting [prep] the table " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mummy the dog 's sitting near the table . |
| 2 | Woodruffe turned his head sideways and dimly saw Rogers sitting under the table , cross-legged , smoking . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 4 | There 's that nice family sitting round the table on the wallchart , they 're smiling at each other while mother does the washing up . |
| 5 | Once we were sitting round the table and the landlady 's son said , ‘ Give me the butter . ’ |
| 6 | A short time later they were sitting round the table . |
| 7 | It was ironic to Victor and the colleagues sitting round the table that morning that Gorbachev had been the KGB choice as leader . |
| 8 | At the same time an uneasy shudder passed through all those sitting round the table . |
| 9 | Emmie thought her family looked beautiful , sitting round the table in the candlelight . |
| 10 | It was wonderful that they should all be sitting round the table , laughing . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | And those if you would , for those who have not got them available , erm , we can have them copied and obtain them for you , but I suspect all of all of you sitting round the table will have P P G with you . |
| 13 | Irina was sitting on the table . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Why does , why is this book just sitting on the table not going anywhere ? |
| 16 | She had left it sitting on the table in her flat , she remembered , thinking back . |
| 17 | sitting on the table ! |
| 18 | what 's happening ? fucking dishes are n't even they were actually sitting on the table |
| 19 | And I hate anything sitting on the table top . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Nick was used to the tunnel-visioned stubbornness of jockeys but it was difficult to square this cast-iron inner confidence with the slight features of the young girl sitting across the table from him . |
| 22 | But Bertha , sitting across the table from him , saw the involuntary action and the slight movement of his lips , and her heart ached to share her husband 's burden — whatever it might be . |
| 23 | She glanced back at the man sitting across the table . |
| 24 | People started coming into the dining room and sitting at the tables regardless of the fact that we were still in the station . |
| 25 | It felt cold in here , though other travellers , sitting at the tables , wore only thin clothes . |
| 26 | They may spend Saturday night together , and as often as not you see the men holding up the bar with their pints and the women sitting at the tables with their shorts . |
| 27 | In the kitchen she found Rodney stirring the contents of two saucepans and Veronica , John and a young man she did not know sitting at the table drinking wine . |
| 28 | The others were sitting at the table . |
| 29 | In the kitchen she found Veronica cooking and Rodney sitting at the table writing a list . |
| 30 | She was sitting at the table with her chocolate cooling in the mug between her hands . |