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Example sentences for "great dinner"

  • Thence on board the East India ship, where my Lord Bruncker had provided a great dinner, and thither comes by and by Sir John Minnes and before him Sir W.

  • When the Duke got down he gave a great dinner (on the mountain), which he had brought with him to celebrate the exploit.

  • By and by met with Creed; and we, with the others, went within the several Courts, and there saw the tables prepared for the Ladies and Judges and Bishopps: all great sign of a great dinner to come.

  • Thence to the Dolphin Tavern, and there Mr. Gauden did give us a great dinner.

  • Some of the pleasantest evenings I have ever spent have been when we have sate after a great dinner, en petit comite, and abused the people who are gone.

  • He has a great dinner, and does not ask his own brother!

  • We had a great dinner (only men) on Saturday.

  • We had a great dinner on Monday, and another fainting lady.

  • We had to ride home as hard as we could to be in time for a great dinner, and only had ten minutes for dressing.

  • Then we came back to a great dinner, and one of the longest I ever assisted at.

  • There was a great dinner too, which the board gave itself at Saint Roch, at the expense of the persons in quarantine, which put the finishing touch to the scandal.

  • Our short stay in port was wound up by a great dinner given by my gunroom officers to those of the English frigate Winchester.

  • I was present at a great dinner in his honour at the Tuileries, and this is what took place.

  • Great dinner at The Club to the Duc d'Aumale.

  • The Journal here notes:-- April 25th--Lord Derby gave a great dinner at the F.

  • Great dinner at the Granvilles' to receive Waddington [Footnote: M.

  • Duke of York, I went to Erith, where we had a great dinner.

  • We went to church, according to custom, and then took barge to the Trinity House, in London, where we had a great dinner, above eighty at one table.

  • Invited to a great dinner at the Trinity House, where I had business with the Commissioners of the Navy, and to receive the second L5,000, impressed for the service of the sick and wounded prisoners.

  • May 29, was buried Mrs. Gates; after mass a great dinner.

  • The morrow-mass was also celebrated, and sermon preached; and after followed a great dinner, whereat were all the heralds, together with the parishioners.

  • A great dole of money given at the church, and after, a great dinner.

  • The talk of the town has been about the King and a toast he gave at a great dinner at St. James's the other day.

  • The Duke of Wellington gave a great dinner yesterday to all the people who had gone out of office (about fifty), so that it is clear they mean to keep together.

  • There was a great dinner of the Opposition at the Duke of Sussex's on Sunday, to which Brougham was not invited.

  • Dined on Friday with Talleyrand, a great dinner to M.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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