Sentence examples for counter orders from inspiring English sources

His other jobs included fixing roofs, driving a hot-dog truck and taking counter orders at the Yonkers deli where he met his future wife, Elaine (she was a waitress there).

In the confusion of orders and counter orders, the battalion's carrier and mortar platoons had gotten separated from the rest of the unit.

A suit walks in, businessman back from a late night drinking, maybe with new work colleagues, staggers up to the counter, orders the bucket with 10 pieces of chicken 6 wings and 4 chips, goes and sits down alone at a dirty metal table and starts to eat the chicken before going home, greasy bits of chicken skin dancing down his loosened tie.

She sat at the counter, ordered a brandy, and asked Kino to play some Billie Holiday.

They prefer table service to counter ordering and want something of a destination restaurant, not a bluntly illuminated establishment doing as much takeout and delivery as anything else.

They slid onto stools at the counter, ordered mozzarella sticks, a coffee and a Diet Pepsi, and spun around to face a group of schoolgirls.

Dozens of Parisians are hovering at the counter ordering slices of quiche and carrot cake - "deservedly famous" according to Clotilde - and the handful of tables reaching back through a thin, white-walled room are full.

Sit at the marble-topped counter, order a glass of barbaresco and the tajarin (impossibly thin egg noodles) with ragu, and watch the plaid-shirted cooks at the stove.

Step up to the counter, order a caffè.

Scenario presentation order was randomised for all participants to counter order effects.

A lot of times, I throw in counter-orders at the last minute.