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The investigator now visited Turner, an artist, who had been lunching with her parents on Glendonald Road when the fire began.

From The Guardian • May 24, 2019

Mr. Bundercombe indicated the young lady who stood upon the threshold—the lady with whom he had been lunching that day at Prince's.

From An Amiable Charlatan by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)

One of our attaches told me to-day he had been lunching for the last 18 months at the grill room of the Chatham, where the "mixed grill" was as good as in New York.

From Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis by Davis, Charles Belmont

This was strange; but, viewed in the light of the incoherency of his instructions, not perhaps inexplicable; Mr. Dickson had been lunching, and he might have made some fatal oversight in the address.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

He had been lunching, and was seated on a stone by a small creek.

From Red Men and White by Remington, Frederic