The room needed to be prepared for lunch.
Mr. Shimizu darted into his kitchen to prepare for lunch rush, but there was no television in there.
Col. Kim Tae-eun, a Marine Corps spokesman, said the marines were preparing for lunch when the gunfire broke out.
Toward noon, having collected a bottle of wine, a loaf of bread, a sausage, and a small cheese, I was prepared for lunch.
In the small cooking hut alongside the church, burnt but not completely destroyed, lay corncobs and beans that were being prepared for lunch when the attack started.
And when I look through the open door of the first, apparently empty, premises there is a fully equipped commercial kitchen and the lingering smell of food that must have been prepared for lunch.
Back in Magescq with a treasure trove of white asparagus he would prepare for lunch, Mr. Coussau and I toured Relais de la Poste, a weekend refuge set in a pine forest, with a beehive, a small vineyard (the wine cellar consists of four barrels) and an orchard (including apple, cherry, fig, pear, plum, peach and wild nut trees).
Hariri got the call as he was preparing for lunch with Françoise Nyssen, the French minister of culture, but he was not in a position to ignore M.B.S. Hariri was a Saudi citizen, and his construction company, Saudi Oger, which was deeply in debt, had done millions of dollars' worth of projects for the Saudi state.
Back in the riad courtyard, dishes such as vegetable briouates (filo pastry pockets), sardines with spicy chermoula sauce and almond paste-filled m'hancha are prepared for lunch on the terrace.
He went outside to discover the four little squirrels tangled together by their tails, as well as a nearby house cat who perhaps was preparing for lunch, according to the Bangor Daily News.
