Clay left soon afterward, and Joe came up from the stables to join in the dinner preparations.

No sign of his daily baking project, no dinner preparations under way.

Many women go home and immediately start on dinner preparations.

Over dinner preparations, Kit told the two of them a little more.

I went out through the kitchen, where dinner preparations were getting started.

We arrived late in the day, and it was dusk by the time a few of us went swimming while the rest finished dinner preparations.

Then she returned to her dinner preparations, but kept a keen ear out for sounds of Lee's return.

The house hummed quietly around me, with dinner preparations taking place belowstairs.

"I suppose it is," she replied, unimpressed, and went back to her dinner preparations.

She sighed, and went to work on dinner preparations.