For months, Mrs. McCabe set a place for him at the dinner table every night.
Let's not set a place for them at the table.
My grandmother never set a place for herself at family dinners.
The sixties had set a place for Joni Mitchell, but her essence was noncompliance.
They would serve a special dinner, set a place for him at the table, chat with him.
"So the question is: if new money doesn't come in for bargains, should we set a place for the Bear at the Fourth of July barbecue?" Mr. Silverblatt wrote in a statement.
The obsessive widow in "What Time Is It There?," a recent film by the Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-liang, prays for her husband's return, sets a place for him at dinner and fills up his rice bowl.
You don't have to set a place for them at the table if they won't be there for the meal, but ask the caterer or site manager to have a few extra chairs available so they can join their partners when they arrive.
Cruz also welcomed a journalist/jazz musician, Mark Steyn, and had staff set a place for a nonwitness, Sierra Club President Aaron Mair, who hadn't even officially been invited to testify.
And Mrs. Hayes said, "Helen, you didn't set a place for yourself".
