Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] for a cup " in BNC.

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1 Do n't stop playing on me now when I get home for a cup of tea !
2 I looked around for a cup .
3 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 .
4 ‘ I 'll never believe he done it , ’ said Mrs Flaherty , when she came round for a cup of tea and a slice of the action , ‘ not if he 's convicted by a dozen juries , and do n't tell me he 'll get a fair trial in the current climate of opinion , not unless they pick twelve men the same size and true .
5 And when she went down for a cup of tea , her mother mentioned casually that Parr had gone to Belfast , not to England as expected , although she did not know why .
6 She slipped out for a cup of coffee with Charley in his studio next to Belmodes ; it was one of his days to be there .
7 Will you come in for a cup of tea ?
8 I suppose I see her once or twice a week — she comes in for a cup of tea , or I go to her .
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