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.