While the priests stood drinking their beers and watching the news, a woman approached them.
Before the talk, he stood drinking wine and eating shortbread with a pair of men who had been American licensees of Laura Ashley.
On a deck with a view of the Tower of London, some non-Austrian-looking office workers stood drinking pints of Steigl.
It was two o'clock in the afternoon and she was dressed in one of those thigh-length robes people wear when practicing karate.This was morning for her, and she stood drinking cola from a tall glass mug.
Required to arrive at 8pm for the single 8.30pm service, we stood drinking unwanted cocktails while an exuberant purple-clad master of ceremonies called Pauly Paul submitted us to a welcoming salvo of weapons-grade zaniness, culminating in nipple-twiddling (his own) and a full-contact hug.
Back in the '60s, in the more bohemian bar on the left, I briefly met "the Roberts," the inseparable painters Robert Colquhoun and Robert MacBryde, while in the other bar somber men in raincoats and hats stood drinking and talking quietly: this was the London underworld and the plainclothes police meeting on equal terms.
Outside the theaters at matinee time yesterday, in the otherwise empty cross streets of the theater district, actors, musicians and other Broadway workers stood drinking coffee and warming their hands, having arrived to show support for the striking stagehands and to sign in for strike pay from their unions.
I soon realised, when I picked him up in my pastel blue Panda and drove him to the Moon Club and then watched him hob-nob with his mates while I stood drinking an orange juice at the bar alone, that it wasn't me he was interested in but my car.
We're told by a long time resident that the parade will go down the one and only road into town, and so there we stood, drinking beers, admiring the horses and varied cowfolk, waiting for... something... to start.
