The explosive turning point in their difficult romance takes place at the dinner table.
The Hall siblings had all grown up and left home, but they still had regular places at the dinner table.
Hers was happy, but you earned your place at the dinner table with wit and expected a side of good-natured teasing.
Some East End wineries, like their counterparts elsewhere, don't stop at grapes: They turn pears, apples, boysenberries and blueberries into beverages that easily find their place at the dinner table.
I'm tired of every single night having to set a place at the dinner table for the detective, since I'm a nice guy, and I'm tired of him never even bothering to show up.
Ms. Wong, 23, who manages a local techno recording label, said her crowd jokes that for Chinese, the biggest party still takes place at the dinner table, where friends, neighbors and co-workers spend hours eating, smoking and drinking heavily.
Nick Hornby does "out-of-place at the dinner party" from the man's point of view in High Fidelity – Rob tracks down an old girlfriend, Charlie, and is invited to dinner: "When I walk into the sitting room, I can see immediately that I am doomed to die a long, slow, suffocating death".
A report published on Wednesday by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation suggested that parents ought to keep setting places at the dinner table for their children for some time to come.
It was odd having only four places at the dinner table.
They invite him to have Christmas dinner, as they had always set him a place at the dinner table.
