I would struggle through dinner and be in bed by 7:30.
"How often do we get through dinner without the phone ringing?"
He wanted her to be able to get through dinner in peace.
Once a week, he would pick up her son, Eric, after school, play with him and stay through dinner.
"That is what has been ringing in my head all through dinner as I looked at those two."
I've been listening to you do it all through dinner.
All through dinner he rarely took his eyes off her.
At twenty minutes to nine we were not half through dinner.
At the very least she'd have to sit through dinner.
And so on in the same style all through dinner.