1.   Little tables have become big business for furniture manufacturers.

2.   As Luce strolled past one of the restaurants a small table became free.

3.   At the dinner that followed, one table became the everybody-loves-Brooke table, as in Brooke Astor, the nonagenarian philanthropist.

4.   Eventually, antique tables became a business.

5.   Staff and friends at the restaurant kept in touch with a crew barricaded at Mangoes, where tables became beds, with a two-way radio.

6.   The dining room table becomes more of a self-serve filling station than a family gathering spot.

7.   The table became so suddenly quiet that I thought I had momentarily lost consciousness.

8.   The wooden table became a tiered hoop skirt.

9.   Their table becomes a cone of jolly uproar.