1. A street lamp shed light over the front part of it where the boardroom table stood. 2. The snooker table stood, dark and forlorn, in the centre of the room. 3. A table stood at the farther end of the kitchen. 4. A small table stood nearby on which ivory chessmen stood poised in combat on an inlaid board. 5. A long, polished table stood in the centre of the room. 6. At the market, rickety tables stood entirely empty. 7. A large conference table stands on a veranda in front of a brightly painted mural of the centuries-old Angkor Wat complex. 8. Craps tables stood vacant much of the evening. 9. I observed, with annoyance, that some tables stood empty in the main dining room all evening. 10. In this metaphor, the ping-pong table stands for the ideologically correct thoughts of the moment. |