Example sentences of "[conj] make a cup " in BNC.
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| 1 | The UK government measures the lead in tapwater that has been running for several minutes , as it would be if you had a bath in it , and not the first few pints or cupfuls , as you would use for cooking or making a cup of tea . |
| 2 | As I sit writing , I decide to go into the kitchen and make a cup of coffee . |
| 3 | The second is : every command you give must be broken only by you , by which I mean do not tell your dog to sit then go off and make a cup of tea and forget all about him . |
| 4 | I have learned when this happens to leave it switched on and go and make a cup of coffee : by the time I get back it works perfectly . |
| 5 | I never knit for more than one hour at a time ; after this I go and make a cup of coffee , pop to the bathroom , feed the cat , water the plants , in fact any small job that takes about ten minutes . |
| 6 | It does n't multiload presentation screens , but it does force you to reload Level One even if you died on it , and automatically restarts when loading is complete — if you go and make a cup of tea between levels , chances are you 'll be greeted with a ‘ game over ’ message when you return ! |
| 7 | ‘ OK , OK — look , just get the kettle on and make a cup of tea ! ’ |
| 8 | I turn back to the white man 's earnest justification and go and make a cup of tea . |
| 9 | Go and make a cup of tea . |
| 10 | Go and make a cup of tea Yun . |
| 11 | And in a radio programme , you have exactly the same thing , it 's the first fifteen or twenty seconds which makes you decide ‘ Am I going to listen to this , or am I going to switch this off , and go out and make a cup of tea or take the dog for a walk ? ’ |
| 12 | Inside , he ‘ used to make all the mince pies for Christmas ’ , peel the potatoes for Sunday lunch , and every morning make breakfast : ‘ you never had to get up and make a cup of tea of a morning , he 'd get up . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'll go and make a cup of tea . |
| 14 | Yes and you can look at it and say , okay , we 've go time to go and make a cup of coffee , or oh , this is going well . |
| 15 | I 'll go and make a cup of tea now . |
| 16 | It 's a funny thing though , because mother 's and daughter 's , and er , I love , when my mum comes up she 's a dreadful sleeper and if you 're having a bad time , you get up in the middle of the night to go and make a cup of tea , there 's always a little voice says , yes , let's have a cup of tea dear . |
| 17 | I 'll go and make a cup of tea . |
| 18 | can go up there if you were going to stay and make a cup of tea and a sandwich or something . |
| 19 | Meredith went downstairs and made a cup of tea . |
| 20 | Well again er I would say conditions were were terrible as far as I was concerned , er a as far as tea breaks and what have you were concerned , you did n't have any what we would call official tea breaks , you simply took your chances and made a cup of tea and hid behind a bulkhead or whatever to drink this , er if you got caught by the foreman or the manager or somebody , then you were more or less bagged on the spot . |
| 21 | Marie was not there , so he opened the doors and made a cup of coffee . |
| 22 | She got up and made a cup of tea , sitting by her bed to drink it , her face pale and set . |
| 23 | It was a great relief to him when she stumbled in through the door in a flurry of snow and he set to and made a cup of tea to warm her . |
| 24 | She switched on the electric kettle and made a cup of instant coffee flavoured with powdered milk and artificial sweetener . |
| 25 | Well , really , how to make a cup of tea is like the same thing as making a cup of coffee first you have to take the kettle to the tap , turn the tap on and fill up the kettle , then take the kettle back to the ma , erm , where you got it from and plug it into the wa wall . |