Restaurant customers must clear their reservations at the reception counter on the 2nd floor.

Inside the conservatory at the front we find a young woman behind a reception counter.

Her second surprise was to find a human attendant behind the reception counter.

The senior public relations officer was waiting for them at the reception counter.

There was no entry into the main part of the building without going behind the reception counter.

Then he closed the door again and dodged down behind the reception counter.

Inside the main door was a reception counter with a man in a suit sitting behind it.

Linda at the reception counter began to turn around, then changed her mind.

I could see over the reception counter and out through the glass doors.

He walked straight past the reception counter and out through the heavy door into the bright afternoon.