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The phrase "they were having dinner" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe an ongoing action in the past, typically in a narrative or storytelling context. Example: "While the storm raged outside, they were having dinner and sharing stories around the table."
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After a week of texting they were having dinner.
She announced that they were having dinner with Augie & his wife.
"They were having dinner together when they were hit by another landslide," the official said.
It was as if they were having dinner at a restaurant and Sorenstam didn't want D'Alessio to trudge 250 yards by herself to catch up with the group.
One evening they were having dinner with their artist-neighbor&she told them about Jerome, the crazy tennant who lived in their loft before them.
A turning point came in December 1999 at a restaurant where they were having dinner with Ms. Jaffe's brother and sister-in-law.
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They are having dinner at the Harvard Faculty Club.
One night they are having dinner at his house when the doorbell rings.
"Parents think they're having dinner with their kids a lot more than kids think they're having dinner with their parents," said Ms. Galinsky, the president of Families and Work Institute.
They're having dinner with his assistant, Gina (Amanda Brooks), and her boyfriend, Ryan Nolan Gerard Funkk), who's been cast in one of Christian's flicks.
The former is like a wise internal counselor providing you with handy life advice, such as, "That movie star doesn't know you, and probably doesn't want you to ask them out while they're having dinner".
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