Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [prep] a cup " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ! |
| 2 | Her father rocked her in his arms , just as he had done when she was little , and when her mother came in with a cup of hot milk and one of her soothing tablets , she swallowed it obediently , a child again . |
| 3 | Then her door was opened , and Gran came in with a cup of tea for her . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | Vera turned up for a cup of coffee dinner time and ended up staying there rest of the afternoon dinner with us , oh no come on in , give us it , where you sitting , off she went |
| 7 | Settled down with a cup of tea Robert explained how easy it was to roam the databases of Britain collecting details of people 's private lives . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I looked around for a cup . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | When she was dressed and ready to head for work , Alex sat down with a cup of coffee and thought once more about Matthew Prescott . |
| 12 | Then he sat down with a cup of coffee . |