Which preposition to use with lunching

with Occurrences 160%

He didn't say a word about music, either then or on a subsequent occasion when I lunched with him at the house of a great friend and admirer, who was a beautiful musician.

at Occurrences 136%

" It was two hours later when we reached the tent; and, without delay, we set to work to prepare a meal; for we had eaten nothing since our lunch at midday.

in Occurrences 85%

"I always lunch in my own room, and you may do the same," and with a wave of her thin hand she dismissed the girl, who thoughtfully followed the old housekeeper through the halls.

on Occurrences 35%

The dining-room of the hotel smelt decidedly close, so we spread our sumptuous lunch on tables outside; but Jupiter Pluvius soon showed his disapproval of our plans, and forced us to go within, where a fine specimen of a French soldier had done his best to fill the place with smoke.

to Occurrences 27%

At lunch to-day Dr. Whewell was more interesting than I had seen him before.

for Occurrences 26%

They had to get the meal and also put up the lunch for the printer pic-nic.

of Occurrences 21%

he must have been seated upon his drum partaking of a lunch of sandwiches and small beer.

under Occurrences 5%

We therefore contented ourselves with a lunch under the corridor of a neighboring house, and, notwithstanding it was late in the afternoon, pressed forward towards the little Indian town of San Juan, three leagues distant.

without Occurrences 4%

We can be back here by noon and get the place cleared enough to give 'em a little lunchjust a fun lunch without fixings.

after Occurrences 4%

As he ate a free-lunch after a five-cent expenditure that morning, there was something in his air which would have prevented the most obtuse barkeeper in the world from commenting upon the quantity consumed.

out Occurrences 4%

So they decided that they would lunch out of doors, and place the tables in front of the old pavilion, on the large lawn, enclosed by curtains of superb elms and hornbeams, which gave the spot the aspect of a huge hall of verdure.

about Occurrences 3%

We stopped for tea and lunch about noon at the head of the bay.

as Occurrences 3%

These were questions to which I could find no answer, and I was still fruitlessly revolving them when I arrived at the modest inn where the inquest was to be held, and where I proposed to fortify myself with a correspondingly modest lunch as a preparation for my attendance at that inquiry.

before Occurrences 3%

With his customary thoughtfulness he cleared away the lunch before going to his room.

beside Occurrences 3%

We took our lunch beside a small but deep and obviously permanent pond.

from Occurrences 3%

On the sixth day she paid out her last fifty cents for room-rent, and, without breakfast, filched her lunch from a half-eaten order of codfish balls returned to the kitchen.

near Occurrences 3%

The KING was going to lunch near the Cloth Hall and would not be by till 2.30 P.M.

with Occurrences 2%

This was the situation a month before election day when, to oblige his brother-in-law, Wharton was up-town at Delmonico's lunching with Senator Bissell.

like Occurrences 2%

Fancy him coming home for the lunch like that!"

by Occurrences 2%

Lunching by herself on the moors indeed!

during Occurrences 1%

Thereupon she gave him cold bacon for lunch during a whole fortnight, and the brave young soul which had endured so much withered under this blight.

down Occurrences 1%

Patsy gets our breakfast on the stove yonder, and we buy our lunches down town, where we work, and then dine at Danny Reeves's place.

next Occurrences 1%

I wish you would come and see me on one of my Tuesdays, Mr. TABLETT, I should feel so honoured, and I think you would meet some congenial spiritsdo look in some eveningI will send you a card if I maylet me seecould you come and lunch next Sunday?

beneath Occurrences 1%

We stopped here, in a natural park of tall pines, and lunched beneath their shade, drinking only the cool, clear water which murmured among the mossy stones at our feet.

around Occurrences 1%

It was only a burly farmer, who was evidently making a day of it, for he sat under the shade of a tree with the remnants of a substantial lunch around him; his fishing-rod was in his hand, but the line was out of the water, and he, with head thrown back and mouth wide open, was fast asleep.

Which preposition to use with  lunching