Terri and I had just sat down to dinner, when the hospital called.

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He had just sat down to dinner when he realized that his iPad was on its way to a new city without him.

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In fact, we just had a few of you guys over for dinner last week.

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Each evening we had just enough to prepare fresh lobster tidbits as an appetizer before going out to dinner, and we had a feast of two or three broiled-and-buttered tails for each one of us on our last night.

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Fresh fish from the spring floods of the Indus had just come onto the market, and he kept remembering that he had wanted to buy some for dinner, perhaps the next night.

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He rushed through dinner and had to leave for his shift just as everyone was starting to unwind.

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