11.   And from that day on, as soon as the table was cleared and the dishes were done, Mother would disappear into her sewing room to practice.

12.   She got up and began clearing the table.

13.   She cleared the table as they were eating, following, as always now, her own weird domestic schedule.

14.   At dinner he was utterly silent and tried to leave as soon as he had eaten sufficient but before the table was cleared.

15.   The caff now seems to have more customers than the railway, and would do better still if they cleared the tables.

16.   As I cleared the table and walked back into my kitchen, I wondered to myself how I could ask her what was wrong with my cooking.

17.   At night, after dinner, Jason clears the table and scrapes the plates into the sink.

18.   A nervous young Osti told his staff to begin clearing the table, but work slowly enough to give guests who were still eating the hint.

19.   After the table had been cleared and the dishes stacked on the drainboard, the kids went about their duties in other parts of the house.

20.   Afterward, with the ingrained habit of nannies, they clear the table.