He put the bottle on the table.

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And because of the way it is served (the ice meaning all the cider does not fit into the glass at once) the bottle generally sits on the table next to the drinker, making the brand highly visible, which Mr Breen admits "definitely helps".

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Then he slowly put the bottle down on the table and reached for the tonic water.

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He left his bottle on the table.

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It was a hugely creative period with amazing sausage-type bottle structures and invertebrate raft ideas all on the table.

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The house was filled with impromptu dinner parties, bridge games, storytelling sessions over the sticky kitchen table, on which there always sat a large bottle of red wine.

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If you do not want to see Mary with an unlit cigarette cradling a bottle of booze while splayed out on a table, this may not be the play for you.

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And he was good-natured about it and said, can't you just keep one, one case for me, so that when I come in - and I said, I tell you what, you let me know when you're coming in and I'll run across the street and buy you a bottle of flat still water and have it on your table.

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In Italy, where I can slide my mortar and pestle across a counter, brace myself, and move it to the table, the only thing that ever fell on my foot was a full bottle of Barolo, and it was three in the morning, I had been working late, and the fig tart in the oven was about to burn.

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