A sugar bowl, white flour, and a stick of butter on a nearby counter said it would have been a pie-baking day.

He grabbed a plate off a nearby counter and extended it toward Ramos.

He put the screwdriver on a nearby counter.

He broke out the cylinder, shook the five cartridges onto the floor, and put the revolver down on a nearby counter.

I pretended not to notice the gun magazines piled on a nearby counter.

Claire reached over and picked up a glass petri dish resting on a nearby counter.

On nearby counters were the remains of whatever food was being prepared when the gas had reached the galley.

Arms curled with pain the subject leaned on the nearby counter.

Scooping up both bowls from the nearby counter, she slid one in front of him and claimed the other for herself.

He lifted a shiny metallic instrument from a tray on a nearby counter.