noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a dinner party (= one where people are invited to someone’s house for an evening meal )
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It’s a favorite topic of conversation at fashionable dinner parties these days.
a dinner/dining companion (= someone you have dinner with )
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We saw him in the restaurant with a very attractive dinner companion.
a dinner/lunch invitation
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Fred's wife has accepted the dinner invitation.
a dinner/lunch reservation
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I'd forgotten to make a dinner reservation.
a dinner/lunch/breakfast menu
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There is an extensive dinner menu, and seafood is a speciality.
Christmas dinner
Christmas dinner/lunch (= a special meal on Christmas Day )
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All the family come to our house for Christmas dinner.
come to dinner/lunch
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What day are your folks coming to dinner?
cook breakfast/lunch/dinner
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Kate was in the kitchen cooking dinner.
dinner dance
dinner guests
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How much meat do I need to buy for 15 dinner guests?
dinner jacket
dinner lady
dinner party
dinner service
dinner table
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It wasn’t a very suitable conversation for the dinner table.
dinner theater
dinner/breakfast table
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Will you clear the breakfast table?
dress for dinner (= wear formal clothes for our evening meal )
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We usually dress for dinner .
eat breakfast/lunch/dinner etc
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What time do you usually eat lunch?
fix dinner
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I’ll watch the kids and you fix dinner .
gala dinner/performance/night etc
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the Society’s Gala Dinner
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a charity gala evening
potluck meal/dinner etc
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a potluck supper at the church
serve breakfast/lunch/dinner
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Breakfast is served until 9 am.
set lunch/dinner/menu
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The hotel does a very good set menu.
stay to dinner/stay for lunch etc
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Why don’t you stay for supper?
TV dinner
walk off dinner/a meal etc (= go for a walk so that your stomach feels less full )
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
after
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Well the after dinner speaker is none other than Dave Bassett of Sheffield United.
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It lay among the daily stack until after dinner .
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A packed Hall of graduates and undergraduates gave Baroness Park an affectionate standing ovation at the end of her after dinner speech.
annual
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The awards were presented at the annual coaches dinner sponsored by the Post Office.
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That evening the first annual dinner was held.
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He received the award from a National newspaper at the annual Sports Writers dinner .
hot
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Read in studio A new meals on wheels scheme is being tested which could cut the cost of providing hot school dinners .
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I've backed more shows than you lot have had hot dinners and I've never seen anything like this.
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So - a long, hot bath, dinner in her room with her book, then an early night.
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We're hoping to join you for a hot dinner .
■ NOUN
christmas
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Helped to cook the Christmas dinner ?
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When Joe was asked to join the First Family each year for Christmas dinner , it posed a dilemma.
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Over £1,500 was raised at the fete and this will be used to give 200 pensioners a slap-up Christmas dinner .
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I wish she would show me how to get through homework and adolescence instead of just Christmas dinner for 40.
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And tonight the traditional college Christmas dinner was cancelled as a mark of respect.
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Frank would go home with a friend for Christmas dinner and I would be left here alone.
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At the lunchtime Christmas dinner Tina, Jean and Hilda decided to wear their new bonnets with the flowers all round.
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Margaret cooked a small Christmas dinner .
companion
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Close friend James Hewitt was the princess's dinner companion .
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A dieting dinner companion ordered two appetizers and no entree one time and was extremely happy.
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No doubt, too, he was dreaming pleasant dreams of his dinner companion of last night!
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Both were wonderful dinner companions and I thoroughly enjoyed my evening.
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Former flames James Gilbey and James Hewitt became dinner companions .
dance
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Her president's reception and dinner dance tomorrow night launches the main weekend of events.
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In August Sarah was invited to a dinner dance by a commercial traveller who came to the shop.
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Anne thought often about Sarah and her sophisticated partner on the Saturday night of the dinner dance .
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Cut it down, dye it red and press it into service for that next dinner dance ?
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The season went well and the club recently held its presentation dinner dance where the trophies were awarded.
farewell
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There's a weekly farewell dinner and you can expect a welcoming drink on arrival.
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Worse awaited the Vietminh leader two evenings later, at a farewell dinner organized by Zhou.
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The farewell dinner is at the historic Abbey Tavern, located in the fishing village of Howth.
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The afternoon is yours for further exploring, until a farewell dinner party during the evening.
gala
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A gala dinner is held fortnightly and lunch is alfresco.
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A weekly gala dinner is held with folk music, and a piano bar provides music three times a week.
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Once a week there is a Tyrolean gala dinner . 50 bedrooms: no singles available.
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Once a week a gala dinner is held.
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Two dining rooms; buffet style breakfast; weekly gala dinner .
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From May to September there is a weekly gala dinner .
guest
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Meredith speculated whether or not her dinner guest would go to her funeral.
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They stared down at his dinner guests .
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Another thing he did was picture himself and his wife in the drawing room receiving dinner guests .
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The dinner guest arrived early and came marching into the kitchen to inspect the proceedings, under the guise of offering assistance.
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One of the dinner guests found Pennant, the travel writer, superficial.
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After his appointment to the Supreme Court in 1939, he was a frequent dinner guest at Dumbarton Avenue.
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Ben Elissar shared the landmark diplomatic twist with dinner guests last Friday.
invitation
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Assuming that Fred's wife has accepted the dinner invitation , have they made a contract? 2.
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Although she had rejected his dinner invitation , somehow he had come out of the scene the victor.
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To his surprise, Eleanor was not bowled over by the dinner invitation .
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One anxious socialite complained that five of her dinner invitations had been cancelled.
jacket
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Their known, nearly identical faces, slid by in a wave of tawdry dinner jackets , sequinned old lace.
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They were so close that Margaret could see their clothes: the men wore white dinner jackets and the women long gowns.
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The city suits and ivory silk dinner jackets she gave to Franky.
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Although he was rather rumpled, he wore his double-breasted dinner jacket with easy elegance.
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Neither Patrick nor John had brought dinner jackets so Sir Bryan decreed that the men would wear lounge suits.
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She was surprised that Colonel Scott Wilson wore a dinner jacket .
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Some of the casino crowd were here, an assortment of dinner jackets and plunging cocktail dresses.
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That relatively small room appeared to be a forest of black dinner jackets , grey hair and cigar smoke.
lady
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All staff were interviewed, including the cleaner, dinner lady and students.
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He made the short journey to sample the fare of the proud dinner ladies from Wheatley Park School.
money
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Phone call from Education Office, re. dinner money summary sheets.
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Her parents can give her pocket money , dinner money, clothing allowance and so on.
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Secretary mentions pupil's dinner money .
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With horror, I realised he was using his dinner money to feed his addiction.
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Children talked, read horoscopes, collected dinner money and completed homework.
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Had a brief discussion about B's dinner money owing. 2.55: Internal Audit Officer phoned.
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Could I make an appointment to see her at the Education Office to sort out the dinner money debts once and for all - hopefully.
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Also sort out the dinner money ! 9.40: Phone call from Education Office re.
party
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Since it is the dinner party hosts holding the event, the whole £100 a head goes to the charity.
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They avoided talking about Miss Poole or Heather and dreaded going to the weekly dinner parties .
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A celebration dinner party . 3.
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Sometimes he puts on dinner parties that cost thousands of dollars.
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Edward has a dinner party tonight which I bust attend.
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We will also seek to promote forms of accountability which go beyond dinner parties at Stormont for selected priests and other notables.
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Leave the crystal and good china to those intimate, sit-down dinner parties .
plate
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Archaeologists have discovered a complete Roman house beneath the leaning tower of Pisa, containing dinner plates and wine jugs.
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Walking through the old foundations, you discover broken bits of dinner plates and an occasional fork with its tines splayed.
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It is easy to mark around a dinner plate and then cut out with a sharp knife.
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Pages were spread over the wineglasses and dinner plates .
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Cover them with a bucket or large flower pot, or place a dinner plate on a crown of foliage.
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Walker Evans records a roughly piled grave of loose earth topped with the impermanent and unstable memorial of a dinner plate .
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Or serve on individual dinner plates topped with 3 to 4 generous tablespoons sauce per serving.
school
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Read in studio One of the country's top chefs has been sampling life at the bottom ... testing school dinners .
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Read in studio A new meals on wheels scheme is being tested which could cut the cost of providing hot school dinners .
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No one is fighting her for the task of serving school dinners to the juniors.
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There are a great number of myths that constantly need to be laid about school dinners .
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Another group are the kitchen and canteen staff, responsible for providing school dinners .
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But the school dinner she was wolfing down was nothing like the standard favourite of baked beans, burgers and ice-cream.
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When I started this job in school dinners I earned £7 a week.
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Read in studio School dinners might never be the same again thanks to the efforts of one school cook.
service
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Best reductions in household goods, bedding, dinner services .
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The place setting is laid with the silver dinner service made by Garrard.
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The great Leinster dinner service of 1747 was his swansong: no silver bearing his mark appears thereafter.
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She washed up the dinner service , which she'd left in the sink to soak.
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Pekin dinner service , silver cutlery, crystal glasses, showy white napkins, all in order.
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The oval dining table and the chairs were modern as were the Wedgwood dinner service and the elegant glasses.
sunday
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We were sitting on the porch after Sunday dinner .
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Had they been living, all three of us would have benefited from their bright wholesomeness and Sunday dinners .
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He wanted to get started back to Washington-he had planned t having Sunday dinner at home.
table
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I want to be able to sit with friends around a dinner table and not think about what I am doing.
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The dinner table had become our favorite battleground.
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Apples crop up everywhere from the dinner table to our most ancient myths and legends.
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Men with moderately elevated blood cholesterol and blood pressure may want to reach for the garlic at the dinner table .
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They only expect 12 around the dinner table these days at the family home at Stanton Harcourt.
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And more is at stake than manners at the dinner table .
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Mildly irritated, he returned to the dinner table .
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But in-stead of hitting her father it landed on the messy dinner table .
thanksgiving
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The thanksgiving dinner , the feast ... that was it, of course.
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But Smolan says he stumbled on the idea in 1994 while sharing Thanksgiving dinner with college friends.
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My aunt had invited me for Thanksgiving dinner .
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I thought it would be a nice break to go there for Thanksgiving dinner .
time
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Evelyn could hardly wait for dinner time so that she could say something to Jackie.
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Finally, dinner time comes, and there is no bread on the table.
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Then Arthur Peeble's dinner time started at one o'clock till quarter to two.
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Walk through any suburban neighborhood at dinner time on any weekend evening this time of year.
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Come on, it's nearly dinner time .
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Consider these two situations: Case A: The phone rings at dinner time .
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Smart casual wear is quite in order for dinner time , but bring one cocktail dress for the Captain's cocktail party.
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Case B: The phone rings at dinner time .
■ VERB
attend
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Raducanu attended the official dinner that followed the international but then left his team-mates.
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Only Forbes, Hostettler, Klug and Wolf had been scheduled to attend the dinner .
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Brian was attending a medical dinner that night, so it was left to Celia to entertain the pair alone.
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Nearly 1, 400 Republicans attended a state committee dinner last February.
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Over 100 guests attended his retiral dinner at the Normandy Hotel, Renfrew.
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That Jaime Guerrero is alive to attend the dinner probably defies the odds.
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Despite their early start, they still attended the dinner laid on by the Flanders rugby authorities.
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We attended a dinner at Le Mandrie.
come
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They can't come over to dinner tomorrow; they've got unexpected company.
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You get demerits if you miss a meeting or come late to dinner without calling beforehand.
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She wanted me to come for dinner .
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Probably the party would come in plain dinner dresses, just to show how far above such things they were.
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Next in succession came the dinner preparation.
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On Christmas Day Bill's family, who live locally, came for the dinner .
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One day a man named Gary comes for dinner , and eventually Mom and Gary marry.
cook
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Helped to cook the Christmas dinner ?
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He wants to cook me dinner .
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It happened while I was cooking dinner on my temperamental new stove.
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I come home, cook the dinner , check the schoolwork, politely ask everybody how their day went.
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Tell her a saucy joke and if you're quick you can cook dinner for six on her head.
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She cooked me dinner last night.
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We had an arrangement whereby whoever arrived home first cooked dinner .
dress
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He was dressed for dinner and she knew without doubt that they were not going to be invited to join him.
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Corinne and Joe dressed formally for dinner each evening, met in the small study for cocktails, and dined by themselves.
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He would stride on to the concert platform, a tall, self-assured man impeccably dressed in a dinner jacket.
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Pauline Davis taught the young man how to dress for a formal dinner and how to observe the required etiquette.
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Jim and William Reid don't dress for dinner .
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While we were dressing for dinner , Jasper spent a long time trying to teach me how to tie it.
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One day, it was a Saturday between matinee and evening, I got dressed to go for dinner .
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Tea was served at four-thirty, and after tea everybody would rush upstairs to dress for dinner .
eat
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We did not always eat turkey for Christmas dinner .
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The tourists from Tokyo want to eat a lobster dinner at four in the afternoon.
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While he ate dinner , I sat quietly beside him.
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To the accompaniment of foghorns and buoy bells, beside a crackling fire, l slowly eat my dinner .
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Keith smoked Dempster's cigars, ate his dinners .
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They were all below, eating their late dinner , he supposed.
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He ate dinner in an expensive restaurant.
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Of the 3, 351 teens surveyed, 53 percent said they eat dinner with the family regularly.
fix
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I could stand beside her as she fixed dinner , but if I brushed her shoulder she edged apart.
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Then she went back to fixing dinner .
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One summer night we sat outside under the gnarled 100-year-old trees and talked while his mom finished fixing dinner .
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A girl called Dimity must fix dinner for a rather demanding man she means to catch.
go
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Ken went to the man's flat before they were going out to dinner .
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He went to movies, went out to dinner with us.
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An entertained audience is actually there and listening: a bored one has usually gone to dinner .
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Mariucci said Stubblefield and his fiance had gone out to dinner after the 49ers' win over the Rams.
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That Gimmelmann had not gone home immediately after dinner had been the cause of the morning's outburst.
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They avoided talking about Miss Poole or Heather and dreaded going to the weekly dinner parties.
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We will also seek to promote forms of accountability which go beyond dinner parties at Stormont for selected priests and other notables.
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And every Wednesday you go on a dinner outing.
hold
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It went so well that the consultancy is now planning to hold more top notch dinners at Cottons.
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Fists shot up, some holding dinner pails in the air like flags.
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The library has managed to obtain the funds to hold the dinner at the library itself.
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I held on to my dinner like a man, which disappointed Brown, who clearly thought I wasn't.
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Juanita Hall held dinners at her home for everyone in the cast.
include
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Three day bargain breaks to include three course evening dinner , bed and breakfast - £105 per person.
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Tickets which include dinner are $ 14 and may be obtained by calling, 422-3528.
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The price includes dinner , bed and breakfast.
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North Sea Ferries include 5 course dinner and reclining seat in all prices.
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Price includes dinner , bed and breakfast except for April departures when only bed and breakfast are included.
invite
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In the evening I was invited to have dinner with a citizen of the city, whose son is a student of.
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Mattie phoned Alice early the next morning, inviting her to dinner after she finished work.
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Better yet, invite her to dinner .
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I'd been invited to dinner too, but declined.
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The general invites her for dinner .
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He said he'd been meaning to invite us to dinner ever since he arrived.
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Bob has invited me to dinner with his friends Gary and Patrick.
meet
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I even meet him for dinner from time to time.
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He usually left before nine, sometimes to meet Oliver Ingraham for dinner .
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They'd arranged to meet for dinner , but it seemed he hadn't been able to wait.
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But it caught the attention of Sarandon, who asked to meet with Prejean over dinner .
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And the headmaster had a disconcerting habit of offering jobs to people he met at dinner parties.
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Once they were driving to meet friends for dinner when they spotted a pair winding across the highway.
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Li's entourage, including his wife, Zhu Lin, were present at the meeting and dinner .
serve
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Then the pudding was served , and dinner resumed, much to the relief of the children.
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Cocktails were served at six-thirty; dinner followed at seven-thirty.
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A continental breakfast, with cheeses and meats, is served and dinner is four courses and consists of good home cooking.
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Eliza had just served dinner , and we just gaped.
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Or if the tardy wife would just serve dinner on time, her husband would cease bloodying her nose.
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Diet drinks and water are also unlimited ò Unlimited salad with fat-free dressing may be served with lunch and dinner .
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Open from 11 a. m. until 1 a. m. daily, serving dinner until 10 p. m. Beer and wine.
sit
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They moved into the next room and sat down to dinner .
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They sit at the round dinner table in the kitchen.
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He offers no explanation, as they sit down to dinner , and Anne and Millie talk about other things.
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From a very young age, I sat at dinners with all kinds of guests.
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He sat down to his dinner with a light heart.
stay
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Do you have to hurry off, or can you stay and have dinner with me later?
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The Kirkbrides asked me to stay to dinner , but by now I was addicted to driving.
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It was tactfully conveyed to Baldwin that he would be welcome to stay for dinner but not afterwards.
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We should plan to have him stay for dinner .
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We ask him to stay for dinner , but he has to head out.
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Marconi Honeymoon and silver anniversary couples staying 5 nights receive dinner on arrival and a gondola ride.
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Much later, on the homeward journey, she found a restaurant and stayed to have dinner .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a dog's dinner
farewell party/dinner/drink etc
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A celebration, a farewell party.
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Kate's local women's group gives her a farewell party of disapproval veiled by loyalty.
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On 8 August 1952 he and Joan gave a farewell party to Cambridge friends.
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She was then shown a picture taken at the farewell party at Champion Spark Plugs just before Paula went on maternity leave.
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The farewell dinner is at the historic Abbey Tavern, located in the fishing village of Howth.
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Worse awaited the Vietminh leader two evenings later, at a farewell dinner organized by Zhou.
lunch/dinner hour
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During her lunch hour she shopped, deliberately avoiding the part of town in which Giles's office was situated.
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Friday: the long lunch hour at the York.
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I sat through lunch hour staring at a poster of a crab louse magnified to monstrous proportions.
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It may be no more than a little park near work or a church that you stop by during lunch hour .
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So, by the late 1980s, the services resembled the kitchen of a fast-food restaurant during a busy lunch hour .
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Walk for fifteen minutes each lunch hour .
more sth than you've had hot dinners
slap-up meal/dinner etc
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I shall award a slap-up dinner at Jamash, our local Balti restaurant, to the winner.
the dinner table
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Many of the photographs are not suitable for the dinner table.
working breakfast/lunch/dinner
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Gannon explained recently during a working lunch downtown.
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He has working lunches with his team to discuss and develop their approach to managing people for profit.
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The afternoon rehearsal started late because Meredith was at a working lunch in Rose's office.
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The real business gets done at working lunches and small dinner parties.
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You might then have a working dinner with a business speaker.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Allen and Wanda celebrated their anniversary at a dinner hosted by their children.
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Ann and I attended a dinner at the City Chamber of Commerce.
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At dinner , he announced that he was leaving home.
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He comes home for his dinner , then goes back to the factory.
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In one of my less lucid moments, I had volunteered to host Thanksgiving dinner .
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Sarah cooked us a really nice dinner .
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Shall we discuss this over dinner ?
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She had a ticket for a dinner and fashion show at the Castle Hotel.
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She used to hate school dinners.
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We had some friends round for Sunday dinner .
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We went out for dinner at the Ritz.
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What shall we have for dinner ?
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Why don't you come and have dinner with us?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After all, she was to have treated Letia to dinner .
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Assuming that Fred's wife has accepted the dinner invitation, have they made a contract? 2.
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I believe we shall take dinner in Bapaume.
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She had not enjoyed the dinner .
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Since the pregame dinner at three, Sandie has told everyone who will listen just how scared she is.
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We had finished dinner and were waiting for the bill.
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Why not expect her to go to his memorial dinner ?