Yes,it was a buy off. The employee put us at the top of the list for a table instead of making us wait like everyone else.

VOA: special.2009.10.18

For example,you can see Spanish-born painter Pablo Picasso's colorful work "Reading at a Table."

VOA: special.2010.08.04

A bottle full of sleeping powder was on a table near his bed.

VOA: special.2009.07.25

It stayed there, as if he had laid it on a table!

VOA: special.2009.06.17

The black granite sculpture has a circular surface like a table.

VOA: special.2009.05.06

In the photograph the two women sit at a table.

VOA: special.2010.04.16

And while drivers and passengers alike in large motor homes are supposed to keep their seat belts fastened on the road, it's not uncommon to find someone in back reaching for cold refreshments, spreading maps out on a table - even taking a nap, fully reclined!

VOA: standard.2010.03.01

She shook a little bell on the table, and a small black girl about twelve years old ran into the room.

VOA: special.2010.06.12

She shook a little bell on the table, and a small black girl about 12 years old ran into the room.

VOA: special.2009.01.17

And quicker than you could shut your eyes that frogwould jump straight up and catch a fly off the table.

VOA: special.2009.08.29

After a few minutes of this, she went to her place at the table and began to eat with her fingers.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

It seemed as if a heavy body was thrown against the table with a force that pushed against his chest.

VOA: special.2009.10.31

They are in a dark room. But a General Electric light on a nearby table coverds them with a soft warm glow.

VOA: special.2010.09.20

At the Silver Dollar Bar, a long table is covered with more than two thousand shiny silver dollars.

VOA: special.2009.02.16