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In his second year at school now and on the top table.

He had time to watch the people at the top table.

What would happen if we moved down from this top table?

I sat at the top table, next to the groom's parents.

Both are desperate to keep their places at the top table of world politics.

His second season started well with the club being at the top table after eight matches.

There is no place for China at the top table."

"Right, then that's dealt with how many people will be at the top table."

What does it take to be the only woman finance minister on the top table?

Two seats were offered them and they took their places close to the top table.

But what are the perks of sitting at this top table?

There is no point knowing which fork to use if you will never get near the top table.

He found his French 1820 marble- top table at an auction house.

She faced away from the top table, bent right forward and looked between her legs.

Only the smaller top table held a mix of both the sexes.

HR has long struggled to get a seat at the top table.

In 2010, the price of the top table was $250,000.

I want to be fighting at that top table now with elite fighters.

So who now, I wonder, does he place at the head of the American top table?

They were later joined for dinner at Top Table by.

And the 72-year-old manager insists that Ireland are ready to end their long wait for a return to the top table.

It's very strange, especially as someone had left an expensive camera on the top table."

They are virtually oven-baked ready to be presented at the top table.

The top table will always have cake to eat, no matter how hard life is for the proles.

Another successful league campaign saw Ryan's side rejoin the top table the following year.

With her hand on his arm, they returned to the head table.

The rest had their eyes on the head table, and only one voice in the whole hall was speaking.

At the head table the rich man is in the act of trying to rise.

Enough people heard him that a whisper began along the head table.

So 12 plates were at the head table, he said yesterday.

Oliver looked at him a moment and then started walking toward the head table.

Now please allow me to introduce our head table to you.

The room slowly fell silent as all eyes turned to the head table.

The problem might have been that he was denied a seat at the head table.

Today it's about being to the left or right of the host, at the head table, in the front row.

They all rose, however, as he led his wife to the head table where Neil already sat.

Those at the head table rose to try and restore calm.

Since 1985, a painting has served as a backdrop for the head table.

I think they were the only two to converse that evening at the head table.

His mother sang, too, after the head table finished eating.

He half-rose to his feet and called across the room to the head table.

Tom takes a seat at the head table and before long, 30 people have crowded into the small conference room.

The young woman on the head table glanced at Athena.

Although its place was set, the master seat of the head table stood vacant.

Some of the people around the room paused in their conversations to glance up at the head table.

He peered out through the wings and could see the head table filling up.

"I've seen the father of the bride die at the head table.

Fax went stamping up the steps to the head table.

I will try to find room for him at the head table at our reception.

His mother, too, smiled more frequently at the head tables or during her lessons with him.