1.   At times his head would nod sleepily at formal dinners, and he lost the thread of conversations.

2.   One evening the film company arranged a formal dinner after the play.

3.   They overturned tables and smashed bottles in a room where a Bicester firm, Harlan Olac, was due to hold a formal dinner.

4.   It is self service in term, but conferences often want waitress service, sometimes with silver service for formal dinners.

5.   An hour later, we were heading back for Jericoacoara, Mr. Manners in the front seat, deep into the proper silver setting for formal dinners.

6.   At a formal dinner, stay about an hour after eating, or gauge your departure by the atmosphere.

7.   At a formal dinner, there are nine utensils.

8.   At formal dinners, passengers formed conga lines in the restaurants, grabbing the hips of strangers and singing Hot, Hot, Hot.

9.   Both men have a boyish joie de vivre about the fun stuff like formal state dinners and helicopter rides to Camp David.