Example sentences of "[prep] a cup " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sara felt better after a cup of tea . |
| 2 | Tony , ever sensible , ever the peacemaker , suggests that we were all tired , still are , and it might all look better after a cup of tea . |
| 3 | While Quins are in danger of attracting even more coconuts for continuing to select a player who plainly is no longer fully resident in England , Leicester have to pick themselves up after a cup defeat that , effectively , ended the hunt for any of the season 's trophies . |
| 4 | After a cup of ‘ coffee ’ at a rough lunch-counter , ‘ Deemy ’ reported in to the Commandant , and shortly we were airborne again on the last dozen hundred miles to Irkutsk . |
| 5 | After a cup of cocoa Willie brushed his teeth over an aluminium bowl and then dashed out into the garden to the little wooden outhouse , wearing his mackintosh and a new pair of gumboots while Tom sheltered him with an umbrella . |
| 6 | After a cup of strong coffee and a slice of dry toast , she contemplated the day ahead . |
| 7 | After a cup of coffee , it 's Charlie 's task to discuss the day 's prospects with one of the duty meterorolgists who staff the Weather Department 24 hours a day . |
| 8 | ‘ Colin Todd told me centre half was my position , but he listened to the crowd and made me a scapegoat after a Cup defeat at Aston Villa . |
| 9 | A man in rags asked her for the price of a cup of tea . |
| 10 | In Africa , for example , it costs just 20p — the price of a cup of tea — to immunise a child against six killer diseases . |
| 11 | One of the oddest features of human history is the way in which we use randomizing devices — the fall of dice , cards , or millet sticks , the tea-leaves in the bottom of a cup , the cracks in a scapula thrown on the fire — to foretell the future . |
| 12 | To their shame , many tourists fired up by the prospect of making a fast rupee , dirham or peso are prepared to haggle for everything , ranging from the price of a cup of tea to an airline ticket . |
| 13 | Anyone who knocks Nottingham Forest out of a cup competition has to be respected , too . |
| 14 | The main part of the animal consists of a cup ( or calyx ) to which the stalk is attached at its upper end , and from the top of the calyx stretch long arms , which are five in number or more usually a multiple of five . |
| 15 | In the November 1952 Minutes , Mr. Wetton is thanked for the gift of a Cup to be called the Wetton trophy . |
| 16 | If you do not like a coffee house you have lost only the price of a cup of coffee and a few minutes of your time . |
| 17 | Perhaps we would fling pride aside and ask someone for the price of a cup of tea , actually intending to spend it on that . |
| 18 | Here , a photo of a cup of cappuccino is superimposed on a picture of the Grand Canal in Venice over the headline ‘ Nescafé Cappuccino . |
| 19 | LIVERPOOL 'S hopes of a Cup Winners ' Cup recall were virtually dismissed by UEFA last night . |
| 20 | Take this place , now — this green-walled , text-hung church hall where servicemen and women could sit out their loneliness for the price of a cup of tea . |
| 21 | And if you 're worried in case anyone in the family has drunk out of a cup her husband used , or sat on the same loo seat or given him a friendly kiss , relax . |
| 22 | On hearing Dr Jones was at tea he accepted Sister 's offer of a cup from our mobile canteen . |
| 23 | He once reproached Sir Philip Sidney for his famous refusal of a cup of water on a Dutch battlefield as an act that looks ‘ aggressively holy ’ , and it is hard to imagine any other critic of the age allowing himself such a remark , or even conceiving of it : The okay thing would be to drink some of the cup himself and pass it on , leaving most of it to the other man … ’ |
| 24 | I walked towards the door in the hope of a cup of tea . |
| 25 | Without any preamble , except the customary offer of a cup of tea which I declined , the Inspector began to take me in painstaking detail through my account of my discovery of Froggy 's body . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'd drink of a cup of cold piss at this moment in time , Tony , if it blotted out the world . |
| 27 | Wo wo , it 's less than the price of a cup of tea . |
| 28 | These drums are quite extraordinary — from the colossal to the size of a cup , they make sounds and rhythms which are undoubtedly barbarous but are nevertheless compelling . |
| 29 | This did not take on , but from the time of the Pioneers some red-figure artists sometimes draw in outline on a white slip , most often on the interior of a cup where there was not the problem of the receding surface . |
| 30 | Christina kneeled down to pick up the handle of a cup . |