Example sentences of "in for a cup " in BNC.

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1 Will you come in for a cup of tea ?
2 If you 'd care to come in for a cup of tea , now that you 've got out and everything , you 'd be most welcome .
3 When someone has been found , if they are strangers , it is sensible to invite them first to drop in for a cup of tea , to make sure that they can establish a good rapport with your parent , and that the two will get along well together .
4 ‘ Is thoo coming in for a cup o' tea ? ’ his father invited , but George shook his head .
5 Just drop in for a cup of tea ,
6 I suppose I see her once or twice a week — she comes in for a cup of tea , or I go to her .
7 Thus Jasper 's father might have been the man who was painting the flats and who came in for a cup of tea , or the old lover whom she happened to run into in Denmark Hill , or the neighbour who was moving out of Flat 16 and who came up to say goodbye while his girlfriend was packing their furniture into the rented van .
8 Come on in for a cup of tea … "
9 He could remember what a flurry Martha Pritchett used to get into when Lady Debrace stopped in for a cup of tea , and how afterwards she would tell them proudly how her ladyship had sat down and chatted as if she were no grander than Nurse Wilks !
10 She thanked him and waited while David invited him in for a cup of tea .
11 So my father went over on the Monday evening and after such a a young man paid such interest in the garden and paying so much compliments , Well you ca n't go home without coming in for a cup of tea .
12 Come in for a cup of tea ? ’
13 She told me she did n't eat lunch any more as it had become a bourgeois meal , but I could call in for a cup of de-caff and con her into whatever it was I wanted .
14 And er Betty called me in for a cup of coffee but and I was there , I think , for over two hours .
15 And then after oh , after a few weeks she said I 'll come in for a cup of tea .
16 Coming in for a cup of tea ?
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