Example sentences of "[adv prt] [art] [noun sg] [prep] tea " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coming into the drawing-room later that day to bring in the tray of tea , Jess found Miss Phoebe standing by the long window . |
| 2 | Before the Colonel and his wife had helped themselves from the sideboard to cakes and sandwiches , and Fru Møller had put down a pot of tea on the table in front of them , Elisabeth Danziger had found the strength to rise and walk slowly out of the drawing-room and up the stairs . |
| 3 | Annette put down a cup of tea and a glass of orange juice . |
| 4 | Thorny puts down a saucer of tea with milk and sugar for the dog . |
| 5 | Charles moved back so that the porter could put down a tray with tea things on it . |
| 6 | As she sat over a pot of tea in a quiet café she reminded herself that it was really expecting too much to find a flat as quickly as she had landed a job . |
| 7 | As the patrol , now unloaded and debriefed , relax over a mug of tea and a cigarette , the depot slowly comes back to life around them . |
| 8 | Nurse Jones was a busy woman and he valued the minutes he had with her over a cup of tea when she came down from the bedroom . |
| 9 | I gave up the idea of tea , but was able to make a washer in the afternoon with rubber from an abandoned tyre . |
| 10 | He picked up the tray of tea things and took them to the kitchen where he glanced at the clock . |
| 11 | I asked her to bring me up a pot of tea , and when she had gone , inspected the room further . |
| 12 | Sister Annunciata caught the priest 's eye and held up a packet of tea , but he shook his head and pulled aside the blackout curtain at the foot of the circular staircase . |
| 13 | Certainly Dotty was less effusive in her thanks when Stella brought her up a tray of tea in the interval . |
| 14 | I bet she 'd rustle up a tray of tea if you smile at her nicely ! ’ |
| 15 | He 'd fetch us all up a cup of tea in bed with a bit of toast . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ See if you can rustle up a cup of tea for Paula and me , please . ’ |
| 17 | Norman Dale , 50 , was struck down as he tried to pick up a cup of tea . |
| 18 | Research has shown — as might be expected — that ‘ natural breaks ’ in programmes allow people to go to the lavatory or brew up a cup of tea rather than watch the commercials . |
| 19 | Here , take him up a cup of tea . " |
| 20 | Can I bring you up a cup of tea or something ? |
| 21 | Well , it 's , it 's simple that if I got up at half past six , and took him up a cup of tea at quarter too seven , and when he was around at seven o'clock , I was grilling bacon and I was frying eggs , and I hope , I do n't know whether perhaps it 's my cold , but , I , I just used to feel terribly unwell after he 'd gone , for about two hours and my legs were so wobbly , I was sitting down on the sofa , I may go back yet to cooking him breakfast if I feel like it , but , the , I mean if I can say to these chaps that , there are times when I do n't feel like doing things , well , I reckon Dave that they are so glad to be in that house with the central heating , with the twenty four hour er , er a day water , and the comfort , there not going to argue . |
| 22 | This would definitely rule out the provision of tea or coffee , which would be seen as a way of putting the taxpayer at ease — which is the last thing the inspector would wish to achieve . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'll wring you out a couple of tea bags . ’ |
| 24 | Pat poured the doctor out a cup of tea and placed it on the bedside table . |
| 25 | He tugged at the knees of his well-pressed trousers and watched Angelo pour out a cup of tea for a florid man with a limp . |
| 26 | as if he could arrest their development at that stage , and set them working like articulated models in a shop window , mechanically repeating the same gestures — Mrs Mallory always pouring out a cup of tea with a warm , motherly smile ; Mr Mallory always easing himself blissfully into his chair ; Patricia always reaching for the aspirins with womanly resignation , Clare always shyly yielding to the one good-night embrace … |
| 27 | Back in bed , breakfast tray on her knees , slowly and attentively she poured out a cup of tea , the cuffs of her nightdress drooping over her hands . |
| 28 | The faint silvery-white outline of his robe and his face were clearly discernible to her at all times , and so overpowering was the experience at first that in the early morning , as she poured out a cup of tea , she would pour a second cup and absent-mindedly walk towards the chair and say : ‘ Here 's a cup of tea for you , ’ and then jolt back to reality , shaking her head : ‘ Agh , I must be mad ! |
| 29 | She poured out a cup of tea , buttered a piece of toast . |
| 30 | Pouring out a cup of tea , she realised that she could n't very well leave anyway . |