Sentence examples for laid for dinner from inspiring English sources

Other guests gravitate to the fireside, from where I can see into at least two rooms in which tables are laid for dinner.

We meet in a backstage suite before a concert in Milan, in which a table is laid for dinner – glasses for wine and water and a bowl of fruit like a Cézanne still life.

Lugging bags across the threshold, the first thing we see through a doorway is a dining room and an oval mahogany table - polished so you can see your face in it - laid for dinner.

Also in the room were two hunter-green couches, a hearth with a fire, a glass table laid for dinner, an oaken door that opened onto a study, and three tall windows.

Others showed cadets at drill practice on the training grounds of the schools, officer instructors in their classrooms, and dining tables laid for dinner.

Battle of the towers of London With plans for novelty towers shaped like a can of ham, a knife and a rolled-up napkin set to join the Gherkin in the City of London, the table is almost laid for a surreal dinner party in the sky.

As I laid out dinner, Drew Dix turned to me, smiled softly and said "Thank you for taking care of us.

O'Neill eventually laid on a dinner for Villa's travelling fans by way of recompense but by then his team's efforts to finish in the Premier League's top four had collapsed.

There seems to be a need to show off every humble vegetable to its best advantage, and you can find most of the ingredients you'll eat for dinner laid out every morning at Market Square, the communal heart of the city, down at the harbor, where the Gulf of Finland feeds into the Baltic sea.

Tomorrow night, the prime minister will be laying on dinner at Chequers for Jean-Claude Juncker, the man he tried to block from being president of the commission.

We saw her trying to make amends with her semi-estranged son, Mark, and laying out actual plates for dinner instead of eating straight from the pan.