It was, after all, three minutes to six, and Grossman did have a family waiting home to begin dinner.
As they began dinner, she broached the subject.
She turned her back on them then, pulling out the iron kettle to begin dinner.
And eleven is certainly too late to begin dinner.
We began dinner with one old favorite, a salad called nam sod.
I am not receiving you as I ought,' she said to him, when we began dinner, 'but there is perhaps some excuse for me.
Could you come up with me before you begin dinner?
We were about to begin dinner when the toastmaster said: "Just a minute; there ought to be a little ceremony."
He said, "Mr. Gonzalo, we are ready to begin dinner if you will be so kind as to call the meeting to order."
He grumbled on, while his family sat waiting at table for him to have finished washing his hands before beginning dinner.