11.   My dining companion was more than a little impressed when he opened the door for me.

12.   Ms. Walters, his dining companion, asked whether he thought the people who usually eat lunch at the Four Seasons would try Le Cirque.

13.   Offered a choice of desserts, my dining companion heard Highland parfait and said she could not live without it.

14.   Now settled in the Bay area, she is both a cooking teacher who works with children and a regular dining companion of the San Francisco Chronicle restaurant critic.

15.   Our dining companion, several years retired herself, said the most amazing thing happened to her this fall.

16.   Over the following years, he found himself bringing up the topic with friends and dining companions.

17.   She is dissatisfied with its cream sauce and also guilt-ridden, having urged their dining companion to order it.

18.   Then, my dining companion arrived.

19.   Unlike his beer-drinking dining companions, Kagame stuck to soda.