11.   Moments later, the band arrived at the restaurant, took the table next to hers, and played songs for everyone.

12.   Normally, Allan Houston would have taken a table with some friends and sat quietly eating an appetizer.

13.   Nobody takes the tables close to the stage.

14.   People come in groups, take a table and pull a metal drive-in speaker off one of the posts along the wall.

15.   Rachou and a friend had planned to have lunch at La Grenouille in midtown Manhattan, but by the time they arrived, all the tables were taken.

16.   Then, a different server came over to tell me the empty table was taken.

17.   We took a table off to the side and ordered rounds of cappuccino -- decaffeinated, of course.

18.   When several dozen Vietnamese-American residents gathered at a restaurant for a party here recently, four mysterious people took a table nearby and watched.

19.   She changed her diet, took iron tables and dedicated herself year-round to the sport.

20.   She simply took the tables as painkillers without realising they were on the banned list.