Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] dinner " in BNC.

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1 She had only had dinner with him once , which hardly constituted an exclusive relationship .
2 Umm , err … to make it more fun for both of us , we could perhaps have dinner and you could show me how you 'd behave in a date situation .
3 So having dinner then ?
4 ‘ Since we 're both alone here , ’ said Gus , coming back from the bar with her sherry , ‘ will you be kind enough to have dinner with me ?
5 Both Mr and Mrs Hepwood would think it very peculiar if the one and only time their nephew brought one of his female friends home , that female opted to leave without pausing long enough to have dinner .
6 We were just cooking dinner in the kitchen when in walked Audrey Fyfe and Margaret Russell , friends from the Lothian section of the CTC !
7 ‘ We had just had dinner , ’ Mr Ellis told detectives .
8 It had already shared dinner and such a tough mouse deserved all the nourishment it could get .
9 I 'd sooner have dinner .
10 When Mrs Carlson went round she had a glass of something , excused herself from a chicken leg saying they had just eaten dinner .
11 Marja van Terwijden had just finished dinner when the plane hit the apartment blocks .
12 She even dabs at her own dribble ; daintily she does it , like she 's just finished dinner .
13 Maybe you just had dinner with her , and wish you were with her now .
14 Well she 's go , hardly eat dinner .
15 Bill Baudelaire would n't be calmly eating dinner with his daughter if there were a multi-horse crisis going on over in the racecourse stables .
16 A husband who has a demanding job , and is used to returning home to find dinner ready to be put on the table , may be distinctly put out if his wife is upstairs helping his mother-in-law onto the commode instead .
17 Honeymoon and silver anniversary couples staying 5 nights or more receive dinner on arrival and a complimentary gondola ride .
18 ‘ You 'll still have dinner with me ? ’
19 I mean , I spent twenty years at Chloé without ever having dinner once with them .
20 Afterwards , he went home to have dinner and a wash and shave before returning to Central Strike Headquarters at 7.00 p.m .
21 On Wednesday , which is a day of rest in Brobdingnag , like our Sunday , the King and Queen always had dinner together , with their children , in the King 's rooms .
22 They always had dinner at night , about seven .
23 Yeah we usually have dinner time , then have our dinner at tea time sometimes you do n't know what to have do you ?
24 He had never invited anyone to dinner at the house , for the simple reason that they never had anything he could honestly call dinner .
25 Guests who stay on over the Friday and Saturday nights and also have dinner in the hotel will receive free accommodation .
26 It was on the tip of her tongue to say she 'd rather have dinner with a snake , but then she stopped .
27 Claudia Cohn-Casson often had dinner here when she was in Nairobi .
28 I often have dinner with Barbara Knott .
29 Might as well have dinner then , with us because we 'll be having dinner about five .
30 Even arranging dinner to avoid dull types , or hangers-on ( or even certain press ) becomes a major problem .
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