The important thing is not to force guests, if they do not feel like it, to speak of what they have seen.
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One factor in the group consisted of celebrities, a combination of talk-show guests and politicians.
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Whether the "guests" are who they say they are or not, all of them know that they are not expected to be polite.
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On the arrival of new guests, a general jockeying and rearrangement of seating took place in accordance with age precedence.
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Moreover, some institutions require their guests to acknowledge them, even providing the proper formula.
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We have to generate a seating arrangement for k guests, with m tables and n chairs per table.
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He brought out the best in all of us, like a good host with his guests.
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Articles were written both by full-time staff and by invited guests.
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Often the local groups sang, danced and cooked for celebratory functions, in welcoming official guests of local dignitaries or in political celebrations.
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He needed also to maintain socially and emotionally comfortable circumstances for his guests by preserving harmony among a notoriously quarrelsome group of people.
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In fact many directors, instinctively appreciating their bogus status, have them 'played' by some of the party guests letting their hair down.
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Local notables and guests of honour were fetched in procession, to witness the worship of the deities.
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After the meal was over and the guests had left, there was food to be distributed.
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Through telephone enquiries and searching through the register of the national telephone company, addresses for 530 of 660 guests were obtained.
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Food was the likely source for most hotel guests as shown by the epidemiologic investigation.
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Collocationswithguest
guest
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celebrity guest
Acelebrityguestconnected to the theme is occasionally invited onto the show.
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distinguished guest
A mostdistinguishedguestopened the festival.
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entertaining guests
The activities that took place in it related to all areas of life: resting, cooking, eating and entertaining guests.
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