Word Sketch for tea (n)

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spoon_n----------PP_with----------(back to top)

• Because I have worked for some time now on the forming of music and sounds, and through this specific endeavour have become aware of the "molecular structure" parallel, I can see great form in "Beautiful Landscape Traversed By Electricity Pylons", "Tiny Aeroplane In One Expansive Sky", "One Cup of Tea With Spoon And Attached Shadows", "One Bogey Slightly Protruding From Person's Nose" and, apart from when I'm blackly depressed, Life is seen from inside me to be better every day because of my positive use of the rich energy that is emitted from every thing, live or dead.
• She breakfasted on fried bread and bacon, and tea with four spoons of sugar, before a full turkey dinner with the other 33 residents at her nursing home in Redcar, Cleveland.
• At 10, he drinks his tea with the spoon held back,
• "Now what is there," Dorothea asked, stirring her lemon tea with the elegant long spoon, "what is there to prevent your coming?

milk_n----------PP_with----------(back to top)

• BREAKFAST: One fried egg (104 calories), two rashers fried bacon (200), one slice of fried bread (170), two slices toast spread with margarine and marmalade (312), cup of tea with milk and sugar (75).
• A fucking cheese sandwich and tea with milk."
• I like the tea with its powdered milk.
• Thorny puts down a saucer of tea with milk and sugar for the dog.

sugar_n----------PP_with----------(back to top)

• It appeared Mary would give her eye-teeth for a cup of tea with two sugars.
• Babur is having tea with four sugars.
• Hot tea with a little sugar.

queen_n----------PP_with----------(back to top)

• Mr K, as the headlines called him, was pleasantly enough impressed by the hospitality of Eden's dacha, Chequers, by tea with the Queen, and by learning from Winston Churchill how to eat oysters.
• I wondered how many of them glanced down as they processed in their finery into the castle for tea with the Queen.
• I'm going to marry the Prime Minister and have lots of dresses with long trains and go to tea with the Queen."

friend_n----------PP_with----------(back to top)

• Sometimes I've been drinking tea with a Sherpa friend of mine in the village of Kundy and there'll be a clatter up the stairs caused by a dozen people saying "We understand Hillary's here", as if that gives them the right to charge in and take over."
• Every evening I had tea with the friend or two with whom I had arranged to mess for the "half", as a term was known at Eton.
• Today it is almost impossible to get a cup of tea with new-found friends in the station restaurant.
• I am sure that hon. Members have talked to constituents, many of them young women with children, who say bitterly that they feel trapped in their environment and dare not go out at night, even to have a cup of tea with a friend.

mother_n----------PP_with----------(back to top)

• Instead, he had dropped her outside the Half Moon in Portesham, exchanged with her a few platitudes about the working week to come, then driven home to Radipole in time for tea with his mother.
• I insisted that I should pay her a rent of five shillings a week and also asked her, somewhat tentatively, if she felt able to come and have tea with my mother in Romford.
• For instance when he visited Manchester in 1814 he wrote 9th September -- an exceedingly pleasant ride all the way from Leicester to Manchester... we found my poor mother (actually his step-mother) surprisingly well for a person of 80 -- dined at Brother's and drank tea with my mother and Aunt Weston", and on "Sunday, I went to my mother's and walked back with Aunt Evans to my brother's, she walked wonderfully for a person of 8212 -- drank tea again at my mother's.

mug_n----------PP_into----------(back to top)

• Claudia's companion opened her picnic bag, poured tea into a plastic mug, munched genteelly on a ham sandwich.
• Miss Honey poured tea into both mugs and added milk.
• "Thrills and spills," Ella said, pouring tea into a mug for him.
• She poured the tea into large enamel mugs.
• Pouring the tea into two thick white mugs, she gave one to her friend.
• He poured the tea into a mug, added milk and sugar, then sat down at the table and began to eat and drink.

saucer_n----------PP_into----------(back to top)

• My grandfather taught me necessary skills: how to tip my tea into my saucer and blow waves across it until it was cool enough to drink; how to cut an orange in half crossways and pack a sugar lump into each half and then suck out orange-juice and sugar together; how to walk along the crazy-paving garden path without stepping On any of the cracks or a tiger would get you; how to butter the loaf and then clutch it to your chest and then shave off paper-thin slices; what saint to pray to when you woke up at night and saw the devil moving behind the curtains.
• Doyle, who tipped his tea into a saucer, looked up over the rim of it.
• Alec managed to slop tea into his saucer.
• Great Aunt S was simply pouring her tea into the saucer, whereupon she drank it down with a loud slurp.

cup_n----------PP_into----------(back to top)

• Sweetheart poured tea into her cup from a pretty tea-pot, adding milk from a tiny jug and sugar-cubes gripped in small silver tongs.
• He poured more tea into her cup, fumbled with the bottle of milk and dropped the tin-foil top.
• Sybil placed a small table at her elbow and poured tea into dainty china cups.

Ritz_NP0----------PP_at----------(back to top)

• Tea at the Ritz was a success.
• Some papers later reported that he had stopped for tea at the Ritz but this unlikely frivolity was angrily and officially denied.
• They had had tea at the Ritz and drinks at the Cafe Royal, and then more drinks at Lyons' Corner House in Coventry Street because they were fed up with swish places and Lyons' seemed more like home.
• Let's go and have tea at the Ritz!"
• Tea at the Ritz.
• I'll take you to tea at the Ritz!

meeting_n----------PP_at----------(back to top)

• Our thanks go to the Surrey, Berks and Oxon girls for the lovely tea at the April meeting.
• Many thanks to Toni Bergman and the other teenagers in the G'ford and Reigate areas of Surrey for a most delightful tea at the meeting.
• Many thanks to the Essex teachers who had undertaken to provide and serve tea at the January meeting.
• Thanks to the central London teachers for doing the teas at the October meeting and for providing some very nice home-made cakes.
• It is the turn of the teachers in the Richmond and Hounslow area to do tea at the next meeting.
• Hopefully all will be well for the teachers responsible for tea at the next meeting.

elbow_n----------PP_at----------(back to top)

• Billy was sitting with a mug of tea at his elbow, his flattish face looking serious as he spoke.
• I showered and then decided to lie in a hot bath for a few minutes with a cup of tea at my elbow and the latest Kingsley Amis in front of my face.
• She was, reading the Star with her feet up, a mug of tea at her elbow and a cigarette smouldering in a polish-tin lid.

day_n----------PP_at----------(back to top)

• Tea at the next Q.T. Day will be provided by Outer Surrey.
• Central London teachers are asked to provide tea at the next training day (17th October 1981).
• Tea at Training Day
• Tea at Training Day
• Tea at the next Q.T. day will be provided by Outer Kent and Essex.
• Teas at Q.T. Days
• Tea at the next Q.T. Day will be provided by outer Kent and Essex.
• Thanks to all the teachers from Inner Kent who helped provide a lovely tea at the training day.

house_n----------PP_at----------(back to top)

• And then was did they come back for tea at the house?
• You can have tea at their house.
• She said it was very kind of you to make her a cake, and she's asked you to tea at her house!"
• One day both parents accompanied me to a fund-raising luncheon at the Savoy, an afternoon rehearsal, tea at the house of an old friend in Twickenham by the river, the recording of a TV show in which I appeared in front of a live audience, and supper in a lovely restaurant with the cast.
• After a hurried cup of tea at my house we were on our way to do a climb which had been a longstanding ambition of Norman's -- Via Media on Craig Aderyn, probably the best medium-grade slab pitch in Snowdonia.

home_n----------PP_at----------(back to top)

• Jesus having tea at the home of a cheating thief!!
• As was the case last year Matron of Saddle Mews Nursing Home -- Elaine Elder -- extends a warm welcome to any resident or couple who would otherwise be on their own to partake of Christmas dinner, entertainment and afternoon tea at the Nursing Home.
• "Cappuccino, Daz, I can get a nice cup of tea at home.
• Yeah, we have tea -bags at home, but downstairs, the tea machine, you gotta use erm, well, they use loose tea.

table_n----------PP_at----------(back to top)

• She looked at Ruth drinking a mug of tea at the table.
• She gives us a cup of tea at the kitchen table.
• So on Tuesday morning she popped into an ordinary-looking terraced house in West London and, over a cup of tea at a kitchen table, sat listening as a group of battered wives confided their problems to her.

time_n----------PP_at----------(back to top)

• Would she not be allowed to make tea at other times?
• I'll give you er give you an extra cup of tea at supper time.
• Bella had been trying to push the walking-frame along and carry the tea at the same time.
• There will be two sittings for tea and to avoid chaos we must ensure that everyone goes to tea at their allotted time.
• He was sure they did the same things on the appointed day each week, and that Mr Soames probably made tea at the same time every night.
• to keep to keep the the members of Council from their collective tea at this time of the evening, but my group feels it is necessary to put forward the people of the acute financial situation of this Council, a situation which is deteriorating rapidly, and began to deteriorate in May last year, May 1990.

coffee_n +----------andor----------(back to top)

• Refreshments -- filled rolls, with soft drinks, tea and coffee will be served.
• Finn left some money for the tea and coffee on the table, then fed change into the cigarette machine and pulled a packet out.
• Tea or coffee.
• And it was cold tea and coffee, burned toast and chops and sniffs all the day long.
• I was allowed with the others to change ashtrays, to deliver maple hazelnut praline mousse and to take tea and coffee to the cups, already laid.
• However, if the celebration is to continue all evening and the tea and coffee and wedding cake are to be served later, it is possible to delay the cutting of the cake until after the speeches which conclude the meal.
• Eventually Ken was referred to a doctor who had an interest in dietary factors in disease, and asked him about his diet It emerged that Ken drank 20 cups of tea or coffee, both very strong, in the course of the average day.
• Tea and coffee?
• Guides will assist with the serving of tea or coffee and biscuits.
• This cook's tour of the shelves takes you round the cold meats, sausages and cheeses, the oils, vinegars, dressings and sauces, the bewildering arrays of herbs and spices, the teas and coffees and much, much more.

biscuit_n +----------andor----------(back to top)

• Be prepared to have a chat, offer a cup of tea or biscuit or to help people to the toilet or on to a commode.
• Robert jumped to his feet, but she waved him aside and placed the tea and biscuits on a nearby table.
• "Better than digestive biscuits and tea .
• "We are encouraging industrialists to come here and we should be able to give them tea and biscuits," says veteran councillor John Kitson.
• "Aren't you and Charles due to go off on holiday soon?" she queried, when tea and biscuits were duly dispensed to Lucy and she could sit down on a wicker-backed chair and sip her own.
• She carried a tray with cups of tea and biscuits on it, which she laid down carefully on top of the chest of drawers.
• A BIG thank you must go to Richard Newcombe for all the background work, also to Mike and Avril for the cups of tea and biscuits, to the Nottingham boys and Richard Wildig for their help and to Ron Davies for the use of his barn.
• Tea and biscuits or tea and sugar
• The interviews could be completed on the doorstep in as little as 10 minutes, but most lasted between 15 and 45 minutes and more often than not the fieldworker was invited into the house, offered tea and biscuits -- and on one occasion two meat pies!
• But if anyone else believes that all that's consumed in the Sedgefield council chairman's room is tea and biscuits they must be stoned out of their tiny little brains.

toast_n----------andor----------(back to top)

• With tea and toast and telephone calls he was busy.
• At night, the police served tea and toast.
• I went round to their place again and we had toast and tea with real cow's milk, not the Handy Brand condensed milk we always had at home.
• She had toast and tea this morning.
• When I'm at home in the country I have breakfast at 9 am -- cereal, brown toast and tea -- and I'm at my desk by 10 am.
• "While you drink this I'll go downstairs and make tea and toast --"
• Tea and toast would not have done for Hannah, who thought breakfast the best meal there was.
• When I'm at home in the country I have breakfast at 9 am -- cereal, brown toast and tea -- and I'm at my desk by 10 am.
• It's never the endless toast and tea , beans, bread and chips which are the staples of poor people's diets.
• On day 1, after a light breakfast of tea and toast at 0700 h, one capsule of 5 8 Co vitamin B12 (Amersham International) containing 30 kBQ 5 8 Co was swallowed with 30 ml water at 0900 h.

sandwich_n +----------andor----------(back to top)

• Ten minutes later I was back in the changing-room on my mobile bed wolfing tea and sandwiches, parts of which would eventually find their way into my now polypless colon.
• As the depot was near the "Robin Hood", in the mornings, one would often see drivers' small children waiting with a blue enamelled jug of steaming tea and sandwiches in a red handkerchief, for their father's breakfast.
• They bought flasks of tea and sandwiches and cake
• He travelled to Macroom for the match with tea and sandwiches.
• They shared their tea and sandwiches with me as the day slid away behind us.
• Er as I say, it the majority of it was soup, but on one occasion during the week, we always had er er some sort of mincemeat, er potted meat sandwiches and tea .
• Prior to my fifteenth birthday I had asked for train sets and cowboy suits for Xmas and birthdays, and until I was eighteen I spent Saturday afternoons making tea and sandwiches for my Mam and some girls from school as they talked endlessly of "fellas" and clothes and make-up -- subjects never of any interest to me.
• Joe brought tea and sandwiches on a tin tray that was decorated with a colourful imprint of Queen Victoria.
• "I wasn't sure what you'd want to do," Rose said with the utmost caution, "and I brought a flask of tea and sandwiches just in case."
• As the kitchen is staffed round the clock, breakfast will have already been cooked: porridge, bacon and sausages, with marmalade sandwiches and tea .

cake_n +----------andor----------(back to top)

• They were always eager to help or run messages and she enjoyed making tea and cakes for them.
• Carolyn came out and served them tea and cake.
• And maybe Graham could do some whittling with Mr Peters while I did some sewing with Mrs Peters and then we could all join up for tea and cakes and that way no-one would be left out.
• There's a mid-day snack service, while late afternoon tea and cakes seem essential refreshment to salt encrusted dinghy sailors recovering from a hairy sail.
• Many people furthermore (much to the irritation of utilitarians, it must be said) will think it right and proper to give tea and cake to the healthy beggar at their own gate but think little of those starving overseas; they are someone else's business, it is argued.
• It was held in the canteen where tea and cakes were served after the ceremony.
• She took over the serving of the tea and cakes and Jenna had the opportunity to study her surreptitiously.
• Marion and her son had an agreeable high tea of poached eggs on toast, tea and cakes, went for a little walk along Old Compton Street and bought some gorgonzola and a pound of cherries before returning to the theatre for the evening show; he was allowed to watch the first act from the wings before making his way back to Putney on his own.
• After the shopping spree Mary took us to a little tea shop for tea and cakes and then we returned happily with our presents.
• So, its all round to Gav or Kev's for tea and cake before the match then; -))

scone_n----------andor----------(back to top)

• Everyday language, the language of tea and scones, when it has been beaten by use into everyday forms, is termed vernacular.
• Two hundred of them accepted the invitation, ending their visit with tea and scones in the school hall.
• I stayed at the Cove watching cloud shadows racing across the great limestone cliffs until the sun moved round to the west when it was time to race the old ladies back to the village for the tea and scones of Beck Hall.
• It is tea and scones -- and where else can you get a good cup of tea or a decent scone, or real beer, as the hero of one of C. S. Lewis's space-fictions reflects as he returns to earth and finds himself -- miraculously and blissfully -- in England and in a country village.
• They had tea and scones in the Lyons Corner House at Marble Arch.
• In a fairly high-class tearoom, to be exact; you know, the kind matrons and aunts go to for afternoon tea and scones.
• One of our neighbours rang to say she'd booked the village hall and she and her ladies would be doing scones and tea .
• She's lonely and she plied me with tea and scones and the rest, and gave me information about her neighbours, whom she seems to like quite a bit.
• On the second floor it was all the scones and tea bread and currant bread and on the top floor it was all confectionery work and sponge making and what have you and pies.
• One of our neighbours rang to say she'd booked the village hall and she and her ladies would be doing scones and tea .

floribunda_n +----------andor----------(back to top)

• With simple outlines and geometrical spacing, they are essentially formal and best planted with a single type of rose, normally hybrid teas or floribundas, while in smaller gardens patio or miniature varieties make equally effective bedding roses.
• As I mentioned in the chapter describing the actual techniques of pressing ( see pp. 36-45 ), it is essential to dismantle red roses, or any roses of the hybrid tea or floribunda varieties, and to press them as individual petals.
• When planted through beds of hybrid tea or floribunda rosea they add interest before the roses come into flower.
• Of course there is a Rose Garden with British-raised hybrid teas and floribundas, Sanders White climbing over the arches and Rambling Rector and Goldfinch covering the arbour.
• I asked Roger Pawsey of Cants, Mark Mattock, Gareth Fryer, Ken Grapes of the Royal National Rose Society and Robert Harkness, five of the country's leading rose experts, to name their personal choice of the most highly scented hybrid teas and floribundas.
• Tackle large-flowered and cluster-flowered roses (hybrid teas and floribundas, to give them their former names).

sugar_n +----------andor----------(back to top)

• Joe agreed and to satisfy the fat woman who was watching curiously, bought tea and sugar, a jar of Bovril and a tin of cocoa.
• Yes to Lochinver yes and that same steamer would be calling in Kinlochbervie and all the villages and this traveller for Hamiltons would be going round beforehand and you would be getting a hundred weight of sugar and tea it would be in a big tea box er er probably er er Ceylon coming from Ceylon but you the whole or you could buy a small quarter.
• Outwards from London went colonial imports like tea and sugar, as well as an astonishing range of manufactured goods.
• " Tea and sugar's what you want, lad," the fat woman said, leaning forward eagerly.
• Tea and biscuits or tea and sugar
• The cost of bread, rice, flour and meat went up by 300 per cent, as did the prices of children's clothing; the cost of milk, eggs, cheese, sugar and tea , and adult clothing, went up by 200 per cent; fares on public transport went up by between 70 and 140 per cent.
• And also we must be prepared to pay a realistic price for their goods -- coffee, tea and sugar etc.
• Fever : Milk, arrowroot, sago, eggs, tea and sugar, with bread.
• And er, then he would carry all your goods in, in, I used to think it was wonderful how he managed to pick them all up in his arms and he'd walk round to the next counter where your other, you had your other dry goods you see, your tea and sugar and your fruit and er then it would all be totted up together.
• Meals are different, everybody cooks for themselves and keeps their own cupboard with the universal staples -- potatoes, beans, bread, eggs, cornflakes, tea and sugar.

dinner_n----------andor----------(back to top)

• There's nothing quite like having breakfast, dinner or tea outside or even stealing a quiet nap in the sun.
• It was uncertain whether she was offering him tea or dinner or nothing, since the time she gave was a quarter to six and she would never have had anyone to drinks.
• Henry took the heavily laden tray from Peggy's hands and put it on a side-table as Lizzie said, "Did she have her dinner and tea all at once?"
• Any charges for luncheons, afternoon teas and dinners should be posted as far as possible to the tabular ledger and the guests' bills.
• All the people he goes to meet for dinner and tea .
• Prices start at around GBP80 per person per day double occupancy, for the all inclusive package -- inclusive accommodation, breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea and dinner, open bar, house wines, and local entertainment.
• A good breakfast, dinner and tea , and here I'm only getting one decent meal a day.
• We did not want to be the cause of friction; but as we were unable to ascertain what the Club had in mind by way of arrangements, we proposed tea or dinner, or, if he were not being entertained in the evening, both.
• Many working class women did, however, participate in Women's Cooperative Guild meetings and campaigns, and as Jill Liddington and Jill Norris have shown, large numbers of working class women in Lancashire actively supported the suffrage movement, albeit with "one hand tied behind them", as for all these women any cause was something that had to be fitted in "between dinner and tea ".
• American plan -- This term is used to describe full board terms to include accommodation, breakfast, luncheon, afternoon tea and dinner.

crumpet_n +----------andor----------(back to top)

• This took me in a gentle curve round the flanks of Great Coum towards the Barbondale road, Combe House, the track past Tofts, and back to my home for tea and crumpets.
• Strangely enough, for a series often stamped as more British than tea and crumpets, Doctor Who 's principal creator was not an Englishman, but a Canadian-born TV entrepreneur named Sydney Newman.
• The drawing room has an open fire and heavy arched doors and on chilly afternoons your hosts will light the fire and offer you complimentary tea and crumpets.
• So we'd better get back behind our lines, because if the Germans catch us I can't believe they'll invite us to join 'em for tea and crumpet."
• Crumpets and tea ."
• THERE is an England where bees hum through warm English country gardens, where apple trees lean down low in Linden Lea, and where ladies in tweed skirts eat tea and crumpets in the afternoon.

lunch_n -----------andor----------(back to top)

• They used the willow pattern china, of which there was a great deal, for breakfast, lunch and tea during the week, although there were also some plain, white, ex-army issue mugs in which Finn and Francie occasionally had cocoa and hot milk late at night.
• Toucans Family Restaurant of the Year ( Egon Ronay ) for lunches and teas , or Inn at the Zoo for pub grub all day.
• J.F. Cooper, who played golf almost every day, was elected Captain, and Major Carr was employed at GBP80 per annum as Secretary, with free lunches and teas .
• The big Aussie fast bowler had drawn sympathetic applause from the crowd by literally dragging himself wearily from the field at both lunch and tea -- minutes after his team-mates had run up the steps.
• He took a walk each morning, and went to bed between lunch and tea .
• Local Produce & Home Cooking -- Home-Made Cream Teas & Lunches
• If our tea and lunch breaks could be structured on the lines of the ancient Egyptians I am sure that by 10.30am each day there would be a smile on the face of each and every member of staff; and if we could ensure that all our members were treated by their employers in the same way, our membership figures would double instantly.
• However, everything was very civilised, as the Chinese travel staff, in their inevitable blue caps and jackets, ushered us through all the details, and even provided tea and lunch at the border station, in a rather old world atmosphere of chintz curtains and sofas with antimacassars.
• He scored 80 between lunch and tea , at which point India (252 for 6) needed another 120 to win.
• She would not expect Rachaela to be home in any case and always had her lunch and tea with Emma.

sympathy_n +----------andor----------(back to top)

• We came to recognize the furtive knocking of these late callers, and tried to alleviate their disappointment by inviting them in for tea and sympathy.
• It offered neither tea nor sympathy.
• Rugby Union Scotland 32, Romania 0 Tea and sympathy for the poor.
• Tea and sympathy: Russian president Boris Yeltsin stirs a cup of tea as he studies a copy of his speech before last night's television address to the nation
• The mothers can sit alone with their preoccupations, or share tea and sympathy and cigarettes with other women, or sort out social security, injunctions, divorces, custody struggles and hassles with housing officials for a new home.
• Miss Wharton had already been driven back to Crowhurst Gardens by a WPC, there to be solaced no doubt with tea and sympathy.
• It was possible, of course, that she wanted to dispense tea and sympathy, but he had his doubts.

snack_n----------andor----------(back to top)

• Coffee, tea and snacks are available throughout the day.
• Licensed tea room offering home-made light lunches, snacks and teas .
• Where they can make cups of tea or snacks for themselves.
• * If you wake during the night (sometimes because you need to empty your bladder) then return to bed and relax as soon as possible, Do not get up for a cup of tea or snack as this will give misleading information to your body clock.
• Licensed tea room offering home-made light lunches, snacks and teas .
• The canteen ran in this form, with a day and night shift throughout the war and after until around 1960, when the night shift was withdrawn through lack of support and a skeleton staff supplied tea and snacks to order to the Works night shift.

supper_n +----------andor----------(back to top)

• "As it's so late, we'd better have supper instead of tea .
• Or drop in for tea or supper.
• A bustling, friendly local which, in addition to its well- stocked bar, provides morning coffees, home-cooked lunches, afternoon teas and suppers -- with special children's menus available.
• He pulled his clothes on rather grumpily; he'd not had nearly enough kip, not with all those interruptions on Saturday night, and he'd been late last night too because they'd all been to tea and supper with Grandma Clegg, and not left till ten.
• Where, in Persuasion , the younger Musgroves' search for novelty gets them into trouble, other new ventures meet with approval, like Emma's introduction into Hartfield of a large modern circular table, as in Fig. 7b, in place of the smaller portable Pembroke (Fig. 41a) on to which her father's tea and supper have been crowded for the previous forty years.
• I made him some tea and supper while he bathed and changed and unpacked his things in my bedroom.

bread_n----------andor----------(back to top)

• "I pay ten pence rent, and the rest just about buys me paraffin for my stove and for my lamp, and a little milk and tea and bread and margarine.
• Belkhuban's father died while they waited at the border to get here... her brother's been left behind... she has nothing, but she shared bread and tea with us.
• As Derek Oddy has commented, "essentially the woman's diet was one of bread and tea , while almost all men consumed a main meal of meat or bacon or fish or potatoes".
• I have tea and bread."
• On the table lay remains of a frugal breakfast; I noticed nothing but bread and tea and some fruit.
• They used to send us bread and teas down from Chase Farm.
• As Derek Oddy has commented, "essentially the woman's diet was one of bread and tea , while almost all men consumed a main meal of meat or bacon or fish or potatoes".
• Oh well okay then, erm, but I've got 'em cereal and sugar and coffee and tea and bread and some cheese slices to make some toasted sandwiches and, so it should be okay, alright, er, I won't be long, alright, bye .
• Belkhuban's father died while they waited at the border to get here... her brother's been left behind... she has nothing, but she shared bread and tea with us.
• They used to send us bread and teas down from Chase Farm.

chat_n----------andor----------(back to top)

• A super afternoon which includes open classes -- displays -- tea and chat -- as well as a Bumper Christmas Fayre.
• The Jimmy Young Show's formula of tea and chat and a few questions on a postcard from Radio 2 listeners was her favourite method of reaching the general public.
• He has lots of "budgie" pals dropping in for cups of tea and chats.
• Certainly the constant parade of young men calling round for a chat and tea , if there was any, or to take the girls out for the evening were friends who happened to be boys.
• Certainly the constant parade of young men calling round for a chat and tea , if there was any, or to take the girls out for the evening were friends who happened to be boys.

fruit_n----------andor----------(back to top)

• For fifty centimes (fivepence), sixty with a cigarette, guests were offered soup, meat, fruit and tea or coffee.
• In the export sector, TNCs are still central in bananas, fish, canned fruit and tea ; quite important in vegetable oils, cocoa, coffee and flowers; but no longer central in sugar and beef products.
• Mr Gibbs ordered more tea and fruit cake, and Aunt Edie and Dad joined the little party.
• Left: Fruit-designed hexagonal tin filled with a selection of preserves, shortbread, tea and fruit bonbons, GBP24, Crabtree & Evelyn
• A waitress arrived and he ordered a pot of tea and fruit cake for six.
• The waitress said she didn't know if the wafers ought to be eaten at the table, but as they were ordering tea and fruit cake perhaps it was all right.
• For fifty centimes (fivepence), sixty with a cigarette, guests were offered soup, meat, fruit and tea or coffee.
• In the export sector, TNCs are still central in bananas, fish, canned fruit and tea ; quite important in vegetable oils, cocoa, coffee and flowers; but no longer central in sugar and beef products.

tobacco_n----------andor----------(back to top)

• Sugar was the third most important export after tobacco and tea , providing about 10 per cent of export earnings.
• Sugar was the third most important export after tobacco and tea , providing about 10 per cent of export earnings.
• His Denbigh Terrace home became a shrine of tin signs advertising elixirs, tobaccos and teas .
• His Denbigh Terrace home became a shrine of tin signs advertising elixirs, tobaccos and teas .
• This project seeks to assess the social and economic effects of recent smallholder tea and tobacco programmes in the Nyanza Province of western Kenya.
• Sales taxes on basic items, including salt, clothing, tea or tobacco, also place a heavy burden on household budgets.

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• Over time, the traditional crops which fed the local population were squeezed out as rural farmers lost land to the companies interested only in the new crops -- like coffee, cocoa and tea -- for export, the so-called "cash crops".
• Over time, the traditional crops which fed the local population were squeezed out as rural farmers lost land to the companies interested only in the new crops -- like coffee, cocoa and tea -- for export, the so-called "cash crops".
• We took our own sandwiches for lunch and a teacher would boil a kettle so we could make tea or cocoa for ourselves.
• Will you have tea or cocoa...?"

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• They ventured under its rays for breakfast and tea and lolled about in it during the afternoons.
• Shellshock was cocoa, which was served with bread and margarine for breakfast and tea .
• He made a special entry in his journal about ten unemployed men marching from Bootle to London, with seven who were going from London to Leeds; they stayed for one night and were provided with tea and breakfast.
• He also had 612;d a day allowed to him for lunches at work and demanded that 1$s1d a week be spent on "relishes" for his breakfast and tea -- usually consisting of an egg, a piece of bacon, or fish.
• They ventured under its rays for breakfast and tea and lolled about in it during the afternoons.
• He also had 612;d a day allowed to him for lunches at work and demanded that 1$s1d a week be spent on "relishes" for his breakfast and tea -- usually consisting of an egg, a piece of bacon, or fish.
• Shellshock was cocoa, which was served with bread and margarine for breakfast and tea .

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• D'you want to drink ordinary tea or what?
• We sat and drank our tea in silence then Dad stood up and told me to tell Mum, when she returned, that he'd gone to have one last talk to the relief officer.
• "Well, now -- Mr and Mrs Quigly are coming, and they drink tea .
• She sat and drank the tea and thought about S. Kettering.
• What's the point ? she thought, drinking the fragrant tea that the nurse held out to her.
• As we drank our tea Hillary told me that the monastery -- a well known landmark to anyone who has trekked in the region -- is worth restoring because it is the focus of the Sherpa's spiritual world.
• Mary said nothing, but she drank some tea and ate a little bread.
• While they were drinking their tea and talking about the filthy tap water, there was a knock on the outside door.
• Ralph ate five biscuits, drank his tea , accepted another cup and lit a cigarette.
• "Come and drink your tea , lass, it'll be stone cold."

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• She sipped her tea .
• "Nor can it be any easier to decide if you prefer strolling the catwalk you abhor or sitting in the garden of the palazzo , sipping tea and talking with la Principessa ."
• She returned Charlotte's gaze and sipped her tea , apparently content to let the pretence go undisguised.
• Saunderson wanders in, an amiable, bulky figure in stocking feet, sipping cinnamon tea .
• Lee sipped his tea from a cup of pale fragile china and shook his head.
• He sipped his tea and prepared to ride his hobby-horse.
• Before we looked at the Fort, we sat in a chai shop, sipping hot tea and reading out loud from Inayat Khan's chronicle.
• He ran his hand up and down Molly's spine as she sat beside him sipping her tea "Have a drop of scrump," he said quietly, and offered her the jar.
• I felt very humbled as I left the conqueror of Everest and the Sherpa's most vocal mouthpiece still sipping his tea .
• She sipped tea .

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• She poured the tea .
• Molly turned away to pour tea .
• She poured tea for Christabel into her own mug, the blue and white striped one that she had used whenever she came to tea, ever since she was a little girl.
• At least we've poured your tea and a have you?
• Great Aunt S was simply pouring her tea into the saucer, whereupon she drank it down with a loud slurp.
• Pouring more tea .
• She put the tray down beside the bed, and sat down with her back to him to pour the tea .
• I lay in a chair, weak and convalescent, while Mr Hobbs poured tea and waited on us both.
• I'll go and pour the tea .
• "I'll pour the tea ," she said.

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• Mrs Wilson finished her tea and placed her cup and saucer on the tea tray to her left.
• When he had finished his tea , he slowly climbed the staircase.
• Emily finished her tea and rose to her feet.
• we'd thought out, we'd go out together when er we'd finished our tea and we I had my tea.
• The daddy finished his tea .
• It's alright, I'll finish the tea up.
• She finished the tea and went upstairs to look at the sleeping arrangements.
• "Finished your tea , Mrs Carter?
• By the time they had finished tea , Veronica seemed much more cheerful.
• She finished her tea and stood up.

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• She went quietly into the kitchen to make tea , then knocked on the study door.
• Start make the tea .
• Er they supported me and canvassed for me when I was putting up, but I can't see them going, whereas I can remember the erm the when I was a child going to the, we used to have a fete and it was a politically, I can't remember exactly what it would be called, but I know mother and the Guild were always there making the tea and got a stall and they were always in the forefront and they'd always got their rosettes on.
• Instead Westminster Bank made him a junior at its Darlington branch: "I did all the jobs from making the tea to fetching the ledgers from the safe."
• "Do come into the drawing-room," she said, "and I'll get Lizzie to make some tea .
• Julia took one look at her hostess's face and decided to make some more tea .
• I even enjoyed Nonni's company; when I came home in the evenings, she would make tea and we would discuss Tom and Oliver, their beauty, their brains, their marvellous futures.
• I make a very nice nettle tea , you know.
• Rachaela put on the kettle and made tea for Emma and coffee for herself.
• while I make the tea alright? the bottom of the suitcase.

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• You have, you've mashed the tea !
• From right from the time office er I used to go into blacksmith shop to mash tea because that's where we used to We used to be able to go and take the cam for the timekeeper and I was in the stores too, and er mash the tea in the forge They put the kettle on the forge you see?
• And you used to go there and we used to have er anybody mashing the tea what they used to call it.
• And I mashed the tea and made it and a fitting shop was there too.
• From right from the time office er I used to go into blacksmith shop to mash tea because that's where we used to We used to be able to go and take the cam for the timekeeper and I was in the stores too, and er mash the tea in the forge They put the kettle on the forge you see?
• The other boy will mash tea a dozen times a day -- your house becomes a transport cafe.
• Then, looking towards Carrie, she said, "Mash the tea , girl.
• Have you mashed the tea ?

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• She stirred her tea listlessly.
• Shirley stirred her tea .
• I hate having my tea stirred for me, I'd rather stir my own tea .
• Charlie stirred his tea to avoid looking at her.
• There was silence in the kitchen as Jonadab sat stirring his tea .
• Desmond stirred his tea and ate a biscuit.
• Dana stirred her tea , swirling it round and round so rapidly that Claudia thought she would wash it out of the cup.
• At first she sat in silence, stirring her tea as though to get it thoroughly stirred was of the utmost importance.
• She stirred her tea .
• She sat at the head of the table -- the position near the stove -- stirring her tea , with one eye on baby Paul, who was fretful in his little chair and wanted to be cuddled.

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• mind you, I've, we've just finished eating our tea , we've been out to all hours doing the lawn, you know cutting the lawns all round the house
• When Dad had eaten his tea I heard him ask Mum if she'd kept the payments up on the insurance policy.
• he said eat your tea
• "Ruth's eating her tea ," said Emma, "I got those sausages she likes, and tomatoes."
• "A couple of hours earlier he had been at home watching television, eating his tea , just our Danny as he always was -- a 14-year-old boy full of life, energy and cheek."
• THERE is an England where bees hum through warm English country gardens, where apple trees lean down low in Linden Lea, and where ladies in tweed skirts eat tea and crumpets in the afternoon.
• Hello there man, of course I'm awake, I'm eating my tea , ha you're wrong, Russell's organizing his night so that he's gonna pick you up half eight quarter to nine okay well I, I ain't had a shower or anything yet, I mean er everything's organized I organized it all for picking you up eight quarter to nine, bless you, what's your number?
• You sit and you try and eat your tea and you can't.
• After returning from the walk, we ate tea and then played a variety of logical games.
• I said eat your tea

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• Also urgent, as he served her tea and she sat up in the bed, exposing her small breasts without a thought.
• Lady Macleod (whose title was a courtesy one) kept serving Johnson tea .
• (One time we did scrape the black paint off the windows at the back and we served tea and pastries in the afternoon and had no music, but that wasn't a great success with us.
• An orchestra was playing and they were served tea .
• The wool room, which is now converted for serving teas , has entrance from the house, and patrons can sit out on the gallery.
• The lights would go up and they would serve tea .
• The second shift arrives at 3pm to serve tea and Christmas cake before making the final preparations for the grand supper at 6pm.
• Further up the Valley is Trevillet Mill which serves clotted cream teas -- just the thing to prepare you for the two to three mile trek to Tintagel.
• And to complement your oriental meal, serve fragrant China tea from a lovely matching 1 litre/2 pint teapot.
• At night, the police served tea and toast.

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• He didn't like Russian tea .
• Would I like a tea ?
• "Or perhaps they just like tea ," said Ianthe, grateful for the cup that Sophia had poured out for her.
• At one point in episode three Blackeyes actually says; "Funny isn't it, I never used to like tea ."
• We also managed to get tins of the famous, unappreciated Spam and bully beef back from the looters and, knowing that the English liked strong tea , we boiled up more of their mixture for them, producing something of an indescribable colour that was more like a meal than a drink.
• Only later, much later, when Penman knocked and asked if she would like tea , did it strike her that she had no idea why Michael Swinton had really called.
• Indeed the adjective must be so understood; if we try to imagine using, in the structure of (16), an adjectival property which is not ascribed to the entity of the noun phrase (nor helping as a qualifier to identify any entity of the sentence), there will be only two possible outcomes: If it is a property semantically compatible with the verb, the result will be taken as an ungrammatical way of expressing a thought which should have incorporated an adverb: (17) Alastair likes his beef tea great Alternatively, it will be a property that is not compatible with the verb either; but, in that case, there will be no way of guessing what that property should be applied to -- it will in effect be semantically "loose", so that the whole will be incomprehensible: (18) the process left the documents puzzled Thus, the property of the adjective qualifies, in purely syntactic terms, the inner grouping of verb and object; it is applied to the entity of the noun phrase, but not directly, only as part of an interlocking structure with three elements -- as in certain engineering and architectural structures, each of three elements needs the other two in order for the whole to function effectively.
• "I like this English tea custom.
• Dominic! -- Would you like some tea , Sergeant?"
• Never heard of anybody who don't like tea

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• Do you want some more tea ?
• "Son, son I want my tea ."
• D'you want more tea ?
• Chairman wants his tea not yet Mr .
• , you don't want tea with er milk, you want to have lemon in it?
• Do you want any more tea , is that enough?
• Wants some tea .
• Do you want tea , or just a drink of juice.
• Jean do you want tea and toast?
• Do you want tea bags or loose tea?

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• Willie, whose stomach had been steadily growing tighter, almost spilt his tea over his shorts.
• Mind don't spill the tea shouldn't make it so bloody
• He didn't like the tremors that went with the addiction -- the wavering match as he lit up again and spilling his tea during a work-break was embarrassing.
• And then you mentioned Thorn House, and my birth on the same day as Donna, and she was so shocked she spilled her tea .
• Looks as though Miss Easterbrook spilt her tea yesterday.
• He reached the bottom first and the teapot, a close second, hit him on the head and smashed, spilling luke-warm tea down his navy-blue shirt.
• You'll spill that tea if you're not careful."
• She spilt tea on her suit -- and what does she do?
• The practical difficulties of nursing a sick relative can be very great, but Pitkeathley agrees that it is often the emotional upset of having to bath a previously fastidious mother, or pretend your father has spilt his tea when the bed is wet, or simply having to make all the decisions for a once strong parent, which cases the most upset.

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• It says about scenes of crime officers cos most burglaries happen er in the early afternoon when when mum's gone out to pick up the kids before she comes home to cook the tea
• "I'll cook your tea when we get in," she said.
• well we had in the bank, we had calor gas lamps and when the power cut came we had to have the calor gas lamps on, and er, at night you'd get home and you knew what area was going off at what time and you used to have to rush round, I remember once, it was going off about six and it went off early, it went off about five instead, and I'd started cooking the tea , luckily got a gas cooker and this was at Abbott Road, it started
• cos I had it running in the kitchen while we were cooking tea last night and Sue came in and goes a real big fart , and goes oh I haven't been able to fart all week, she says !
• The school was divided into Upper and Lower boys, and the Lower boys in each house fagged for members of the Library: they cooked their tea , ran errands for them, being sent perhaps as far as Windsor to fetch a cake from Fuller's teashop, and they had to come at once when someone in the Library shouted "Boy!", the last arrival being given the job.
• Yeah cos it means I can cook your tea for you doesn't it?
• cooking the tea , I remember it was fish fingers and chips I was doing and er the dam lights all went out, you were only little and erm Lynsey er, she came round from next door because she started cooking her chips
• Could've managed to cook her tea , couldn't we?
• and she said, she'd got an electric cooker, can I finish cooking me tea on your cooker, huh, said it went off earlier than we thought I mean it wasn't
• She cooks the teas and does the housework and everything.

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• Morose; no hint of the chirpy fat man who had brewed more police tea than any three others, in the force, put together.
• Don't just brew the tea just for a moment love, I've got the pudding to put out.
• The tea was made according to the instruction given by the Tea Council in London -- brewing the tea bag for three minutes then squeezing it.
• Women who had been forced, in the name of Victory, to return to work in shops and factories, yet still found time at the end of the day to brew tea and serve hot meat pies, and smile.
• Having eaten it, he brewed some tea and took her a cup.

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• Kissing all the boys, she made her way up to bed, taking her tea with her.
• Patrick took his tea and went up to the first floor, to the long landing window which looked over the village green.
• She took her early morning tea to the garden, and sat at the table to drink it.
• Should she take tea to her aunt and uncle in bed?
• Look why not come down to my cottage now, and we'll have lunch there -- I never have much more than just a picnic myself -- then we can go across this afternoon, and maybe take tea to have on the island?
• "Thanks," said Ruth, taking the tea .
• I travelled to Galway and took tea with the bishop.
• Take tea with Her Ladyship, Squire, Cook and Butler china mugs.
• Yet if Althorp loses that personal touch, if it can no longer offer the chance to take tea with a relative of the Princess of Wales, will it still pull in the crowds?
• I promise to take no more strong tea , and I'll be in bed by one o'clock.

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• The crowd milled around chatting and exchanging tips, hawking and spitting, slurping tea and placing bets.
• Standing by the sink, slurping his tea and nibbling a slice of fruit cake, Nicky Scott Wilson continued his questions.
• Death crunched his cookies and slurped his tea .

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• "Order her some tea , Daddy," Mrs Hobbs said.
• The captain lit a long cigarette and ordered more tea .
• I think I'll order English tea ."
• Sit down and I'll get the wafers and then order some tea .
• Mr Gibbs ordered more tea and fruit cake, and Aunt Edie and Dad joined the little party.
• "I've ordered some tea ," he said, "and then perhaps you can tell me how I can be of service, Mrs Miller."
• Cornelius ordered another tea .
• After the doctor left Muriel ordered tea in the drawing room.
• It almost seemed for a moment as if he would come over to the table and speak, but then he turned away, looking rather puzzled and began to order his tea .
• They ordered tea and Lena chose a cake called a "wig", with an apricot in the middle, while Max had parkin, which he was assured was a traditional Yorkshire dish.

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• Enjoy your tea
• You can enjoy afternoon tea with cucumber sandwiches, lounge in chintz-covered chairs, play billiards or bridge, or dine in tuxedo.
• Then you'll have time to enjoy your tea .
• I enjoyed my tea and glimpse into a way of life that would have been familiar to JTR.
• They skirted an indoor pool, empty as yet, though a few early arrivals were sitting in the comfortable chairs, enjoying afternoon tea .
• They were happy affairs -- we dressed in our best, played a few games like Farmer In His Den, Blind Man's Bluff Or Musical Chairs , we enjoyed a tea of sandwiches, chocolate biscuits, ice cream and jelly, sang "Happy Birthday" and went home with a slice of cake.
• Enjoy your tea
• "I remember it had the most extraordinary cohesive effect; we all gathered round the bonfire and enjoyed our tea -- "
• And er did you enjoy your tea yesterday with I didn't come because er I thought
• Members of Halstead Rotaract Club enjoy a tea party after their clean-up

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• She swallowed her tea to clear her throat.
• At the sound of his name, he swallowed his tea , excused himself and, followed at a step behind by Leroy Burns, made his portly way down to the lobby.
• He swallowed some tea .
• Polly swallowed her tea .
• He crushed out his cigarette, swallowed some more tea , sniffed again, blew his nose on a large, paisley patterned handkerchief and lit another cigarette before he answered.
• She swallowed some tea ; it went the wrong way and she coughed desperately.
• She swallowed some tea hurriedly, then dropped the cup with a scream as the room was plunged into darkness.

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• Alec managed to slop tea into his saucer.
• Jan slopped two tea bags into the bin and scooped sugar into her cup.
• He slapped both hands palms down on the table, slopping his tea and making them all jump, totally unselfconscious in his misery.
• Maxim left him cackling and slopping his tea with mirth.

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• Now Muriel Gray, TV personality, mountaineer and columnist, is not everyone's cup of tea .
• Well you have got, you've got a cup of tea .
• Sweetheart poured tea into her cup from a pretty tea -pot, adding milk from a tiny jug and sugar-cubes gripped in small silver tongs.
• Jimmy sat down, all eyes on him, and Mrs Redfern poured him a cup of tea and Ada gave him a slice of toast from a dish.
• It was my cup of tea .
• Cup of tea .
• Would you like a cup of tea ?
• After I woke, I would make a cup of tea and soon afterwards dash out with the toilet-roll.
• How about a nice cup of tea ?"
• Claire sits in the open window of John's kitchen, a cup of jasmine tea warming her hands.

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• I poured four more mugs of tea .
• A tray with three mugs of tea was brought in by Riley, a small grey-haired man in neat batman's uniform.
• Meanwhile, the train guard, George Marsh, decided to make himself a mug of tea .
• Rose was preparing to bring Moran a mug of tea .
• The western slopes of the Annalong Valley are a superb vantage points to watch shepherds and dogs in action, and if your itinerary always includes a stop for a mug of tea then be warned that the only tea-shop I know of in the area is in the park at the bottom of Silent Valley.
• He switched on a few lights, took off his coat and tie and rolled up his sleeves, then he pottered around the kitchen making himself a good night mug of milkless tea .
• Those carmen are sittin' outside the wharves fer hours on end at times, an' they like ter come in fer a mug o' tea an' a chat.
• Maggie got up and poured herself another mug of tea .
• Oh that was messy, you're telling me was messy, I've known cups of tea, you put a cup of tea on there the other cup of tea was there, well we never used to have saucers couldn't afford them, that'd be there a mug of tea and that'd move like that off the table that'd come cos the dredger was shaking so much.
• When she had gone, Sarah poured herself out a large mug of thick black tea .

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• Imagine several movements your hand habitually makes -- like holding a saw, peeling potatoes, rubbing in cream or making a pot of tea .
• Please make another pot of tea because this one is cold.
• Breakfast was still at eight thirty sharp for Mr Stephen but now the house had to go on tiptoe until ten thirty, when Browning would take a pot of tea and two slices of toast to the young Mrs Winters's bedroom.
• He put more wood on the fire and made a pot of tea .
• The woman busied herself in the kitchen and produced a plate piled high like a cairn with potatoes, and a huge pot of tea , and then resumed her knitting by the fire opposite her husband.
• She hurried downstairs to the kitchen knowing that Jamie would want his breakfast but, to her surprise, Jamie was already up and was making a pot of tea .
• Coming up 70 and buoyant as ever (" I keep going on cigarettes and pots of tea " she said) Elsie has officially retired but works tirelessly on.
• He strode into the room and picking up the kettle with an old cloth he proceeded to make a pot of tea .
• Martina contented herself with a pot of tea , and held her cup with both hands, as girls are bound to do, the fingers spread for all the warmth.
• Nurse Jones, bless her, had made the pot of tea .

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• A little ward-maid appeared at the bedside with an enormous vacuum flask of Georgian tea , refusing to leave until I had downed every drop.
• "And there's a flask of tea if you need it.
• They bought flasks of tea and sandwiches and cake
• I had made a flask of tea and some sandwiches but had run out of milk at home, so I brought a stoppered bottle along planning to buy some milk in Keld.
• Fairfax's steward has packed sandwiches for us and an ancient vacuum flask of tea .
• Retire is the right term for what he does: it is a ritual demanding a nightcap, a pee on the edge of the firelight, another nightcap, the preparation of a vacuum flask of hot tea for the bedside and a laborious change into old-fashioned pyjamas.
• "I wasn't sure what you'd want to do," Rose said with the utmost caution, "and I brought a flask of tea and sandwiches just in case."
• The jungle birds fell silent in the growing heat, and Jacques Devraux eventually called a halt and distributed flasks of cold tea that had been carried in satchels by the Moi bearers.
• The Profitboss will bring in sandwiches and a flask of tea , eating them with the fork-lift truck drivers in the despatch bay.
• After the parade, along to the park where the speeches boomed from ancient public address systems to an audience more intent on its flasks of tea and sandwiches or, for the men, bottles of beer or whisky.

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• Charles moved back so that the porter could put down a tray with tea things on it.
• "Right," Emily said with more confidence than she felt, "please send Letty in with a tray of tea , I'm quite thirsty."
• Pat Johnstone, Sarah's best friend and next-door neighbour, came into the bedroom with a tray of tea .
• He picked up the tray of tea things and took them to the kitchen where he glanced at the clock.
• Victorine came in with the tray of tea .
• Juliet and David sat in squashy armchairs while Mrs Maybury fetched the tray of tea .
• As did the House Manager who roamed throughout performances in the foyer or the staircases, the bars of Stalls, Dress Circle and Upper Circle, keeping an eye on programme girls (most of them certainly mature) who, in their black dresses and little aprons, ushered, sold programmes and in the intervals brought trays of tea and biscuits (coffee in the evenings), while in the orchestra pit the band (tuxedoed, although who knew whether their trousers matched) played pleasing music.
• "I don't remember anything except carrying a tray of tea and cake down a long corridor."
• We're sat either side of a small old table, just big enough to take a tray of tea , set simply alongside other tables and chair sin the cheaply luxurious lounge of the Country Club hotel in Cork, Ireland.
• Perhaps," he said, turning as Peter came in with a tray of tea , "perhaps being a monk is bad training for the handling of possessions.

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• He took a sip of tea and set the cup aside.
• He tried a sip of tea and winced as the hot liquid scalded his tongue.
• Jonna hesitated and took a sip of his tea , regarding his father warily over the rim of the mug.
• The ship's neural net interrupted his second sip of tea .
• But Mama still didn't answer, just poured a mug of tea for Death, then took a sip of her tea .
• Mrs Hendry took a sip of tea , shook her head.
• She took a sip of her tea and regarded Lisa squarely.
• Finally Mama said, very slowly, with sips of tea in between, "I have read somewhere that you like games."
• As she prayed, Nicandra squinted through her fingers to watch the exquisite bread and butter swallowed and followed by gentle sips of tea on her mother's part and grosser gulps from her father's side of the bed.
• At this point I take a sip of my disgusting tea .

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• He was silent for a few moments, then he raised his head, took a couple of gulps of tea and remarked very slowly, Jesus Christ, Piper, you must be bloody bomb happy!
• The girl had grinned and taken a gulp of iced tea .
• Then there had been another science during which she took periodical gulps of her tea and the sleeping baby stirred and gave small pig-like grunts.
• That much was true, she acknowledged reluctantly, taking a gulp of tea to hide from Lucy's probing eyes.
• With her heart thudding so loudly that she felt sure he must feel it through her ribcage, she took another gulp of tea and waited, knowing he must speak, explain somehow what it was that had suddenly flared between them again.
• Whether Rainbow remembers or not, history will never know, because she is too busy choking on a gulp of tea that has suddenly slipped down the wrong way.
• I began to abandon my Western habits and within minutes crossed the bridge into the Sheikha's world, self-contained, unhurried, conscious of movement, aware of sound, small sips of fragrant coffee as against gulps of hot tea .
• Helen took a gulp of tea , and felt herself begin to rally.
• Milton took a last bite of teacake and a last gulp of tea and lay back in his chair and closed his eyes.

sip_v----------before_prepn----------(back to top)

• She fell silent, sipping at her tea .
• Cornelius replaced the envelope and sipped at his tea .
• Helen sipped at her cold tea and then smiled sadly.
• "Today Old Delhi is nothing but a dustbin," he said, sipping at his tea .
• Kelly sipped at her tea .
• Taff continued talking as I sipped at my tea .
• She fell silent, sipping at her tea .
• Carys took the cup and sipped at the tea gratefully.
• Helen paused after that sentence and sipped at her herbal tea .
• The Tollemarche ladies, in bonnets and cartwheel hats, gave teas at which they coyly sipped at China tea flavoured with lemon and mint.

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• 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.
• In the tea room their spirits were at once raised and depressed by the English-looking cakes, pots of jam and packets of tea in the showcases on the counter, but the dim interior, with its Kardomah-like decor, reassured and encouraged them.
• Sergeant Davis gave the oldest Arab he could see two pounds of sugar and a big packet of tea .
• The few who did get through, mostly mature if determined ladies carrying packets of tea , butter and biscuits, did not create any serious inconvenience.
• It was so pitifully easy for the customers: the temptation so hard to resist, to pick up a bar or two of chocolate from the counter, a packet of tea from the shelf, even a bag of flour, as my aunt came from behind the counter, passed through to the kitchen, down the steps into the old still-room to draw vinegar from the cask, or paraffin from the tank (its pump rattling up-down, up-down), or across the yard for corn or toppings, or up the back stairs for some item kept on the little landing; so that the shop began to make small profit or none at all.
• Dad said he'd brought home some free packets of tea and a tin of mixed biscuits from the firm.
• So I got about twenty records, ten packets of tea , Tropic of Cancer and On the Road, and the plays of Tennessee Williams, and off I went to live with Eva.
• The letter announcing my visit lay unopened on the mat when she opened the door, and an hour later I came away believing that I admired a woman who could, under these circumstances and in some pain, treat me as if I had just stepped round the corner for a packet of tea ten minutes before, and talk to me about this and that, and nothing at all.
• But two cases of tinned tomatoes, a sack of rice, a sack of sugar and a large quantity of packets of tea were quickly assembled and delivered within hours of the accident as an open and willing admission of the responsibility of the reckless s and silly youth's family.
• The prizes were packets of tea , sweets and beer -- as men, women and children competed.

beaker_n----------before_prepn----------(back to top)

• As he watched the events occurring between the two moons, he blew on a plastic beaker of fragrant Arcturan tea .
• Mike filed his copy at quarter past four and went back to his desk and plastic beaker of stewed tea feeling well satisfied.
• Bishop drained his beaker of tea .
• Beyond the windows, tropical trees and shrubs that bore guava, papaw, mangosteen and pomegranate sprouted in profusion from the moist earth of a walled garden, and heaped bowls of fruits picked from their branches were clustered on the altar, along with tiny dishes of spiced meats, fish, lotus seeds, vegetables and porcelain beakers of tea and rice alcohol.
• Kosi left her plastic beaker of tea steaming gently on the nearest flat surface while she and Lars headed for the centre of the room.
• Ryker passed her once more, glancing at her, cradling a plastic beaker of tea in his hand.

serving_n----------before_prepn----------(back to top)

• Guides will assist with the serving of tea or coffee and biscuits.
• She took over the serving of the tea and cakes and Jenna had the opportunity to study her surreptitiously.
• They also said there could be no handshakes and no serving of tea or coffee.
• Quite a garden party atmosphere prevailed, which was emphasised by the serving of tea and ices at small tables.
• Breakfasts are simple; bread cheese, honey or jam, some olives and copious servings of aromatic black tea .
• "Tell me about it," she said, leading Gwendolen firmly downstairs and into the garden where in defiance of the threatened rain Mr Blackwell had prepared for the serving of tea .
• Guides will assist with the serving of tea or coffee and biscuits.

mouthful_n----------before_prepn----------(back to top)

• He washed down the last of the bread with a mouthful of tea and stood up.
• "Sorry," he said, awkwardly, through a mouthful of Rich Tea .
• Lisa stared hard into the fire as despair flooded through her, then, fighting for control, she raised her cup to her lips and forced herself to drink a mouthful of warm tea .
• She took three aspirins from her handbag and swallowed them, grimacing, with the last tepid mouthful of tea .
• Well have a spoon, mouthful of tea afterwards.
• Willie choked on a mouthful of tea and Zach slapped his back.
• Kendrick spat out the mouthful of tea he was trying to drink and started choking.

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• "What about some crumpets for tea ?" she says.
• And it's not just in this country that memories of a Britain in which everyone wore a vest, ate toasted crumpets for tea and never went out without a hat that these programmes are appreciated.
• Could we have crumpets for tea ?"
• "You shall have crumpets for tea again, don't you worry.

home_AV0----------before_prepn----------(back to top)

• no I'm sorry but you can't have the cars and bikes out because it's tea time and you're going home for your tea , Bryony's had her hair cut and mummy's come back there's look
• In the attempt to provide good influences, officers were advised to cultivate personal contacts: to become friends with the boys, to invite them home for tea and to visit their homes; they were to encourage their charges to have confidence in them and never to break faith; above all, they were told, never "miss an opportunity of strengthening your hold over them".
• When she went home to tea with them she ate delicious food.
• "It's just... he's brought someone home for tea ."
• you, you can't have the cars and bikes out, you're going home now, mummy's come to get you, you're going home for your tea
• He returned to his boy and the two of them continued with their play until it was time to go home for tea .
• I want to get home to the party tea , it's ten to four.
• cos we was late home for tea last night weren't we?
• "You're very welcome to bring your friends home to tea -- if it's a day I don't work."
• I returned home for a late tea and carefully explained to my mother what Dana had done, and tried to excuse the thoughtlessness that had caused her such a shock.

sugar_n----------before_prepn----------(back to top)

• or how I liked two sugars in my tea ,
• Do you take sugar in tea or coffee?
• in life, tooth-rotting sugar in their tea .
• My dad used to take two sugars, and when I said I was giving up sugar in tea and coffee, he reduced it to one.
• And, again in contrast to being a useful, helpful sensible little girl, was her cosy friendship with the changing series of under-housemaids who laughed so readily at her jokes and gave her lumps of sugar from morning tea trays -- sometimes it was a peppermint.
• CLARE DEVENISH DROPPED one lump of sugar in her tea .
• "Does he take sugar in his tea ?"
• She avoided Betty's eye and absent-mindedly put too much sugar in her tea .
• NO cigarettes, no alcohol but plenty of sugar in your tea -- that's the recipe for long life recommended by Courtaulds pensioner Tom Wilford.
• Topstock stirred a lot of sugar into his tea and resumed.

cake_n----------before_prepn----------(back to top)

• A promised treat for when you get home -- a cake for tea , or watching a favourite video -- gives your child something to look forward to at the end of it."
• "Tell your mum to buy cream cakes for tea -- you deserve it!" is the message that should be going home.
• Make us some nice angel cakes for tea ."
• Can I make a cake for tea ?
• He shook his head, then took a plate and wandered off to choose cakes for his tea .
• Offers of cakes for tea would also be welcome.
• "We can have cakes for tea ."
• S.J. Snooke of South Africa, who led his side to defeat against England over his 29th birthday, Feb. 1, 1910, was the first overseas player to be able to offer birthday cake at the tea interval, but the first captain to five himself a victory as a birthday present was the Australian H.L. Collins, whose 36th birthday fell on the fifth day of the seven-day third Test against England in January 1925, which Australia eventually won by 11 runs.
• I was given a lovely bit of home-made cake for tea and that lifted my spirits tremendously.
• What we had to do was pop out to buy daddy a card and we got a paper and we got some biscuits and cake for tea for tomorrow.

urn_n----------before_prepn----------(back to top)

• Hooks of meat, barrows of vegetables, trays of pies, urns of tea passed him in every direction.
• There was also a mobile canteen, whose function was to supply urns of tea and light snacks, rolls, etc, at snap time, a snap or tea break being allowed by the same wartime act.
• As for drinks, there would be silvery twirled urns of tea on tap for the grown-ups and milk or fresh lemonade for the young.
• We had every other Sunday off, you see, but otherwise we worked and didn't get any extra for it but of course the girls like myself well erm we couldn't lift these huge urns of tea so they had two men keep them on, you see, and er, and we were er perhaps I know one day we didn't finish until five o'clock in the morning

drink_n----------before_prepn----------(back to top)

• "Everybody come up close to the fire and have a drink of hot tea ," shouted Mrs Stubbs.
• Evelyn asked the cab driver to stop at the small supermarket near her house, bought the bare necessities for a drink of tea and something simple to eat.
• We then engaged in philosophical discourse, while a servant woman, cringing as she served us, brought a dark drink like tea in earthenware bowls which fitted neatly between Mr White Face's tusks.
• Have a drink of tea ?"
• Lucy leaned further back on the sofa, and took a thoughtful drink of her tea .
• Have a drink of this tea .
• He pushed the map away, uncorked his canteen, and took a drink of cold tea .
• If you have a warm drink, try milk, cocoa or a herbal drink such as camomile tea .
• KALMYKIA is a semi-autonomous republic of the Russian federation with a population of 320,000, no trees, a universal drink of tea mingled with mutton fat, and a 30-year-old Buddhist president who claims to control 50 companies with a combined turnover of $100m a year.
• Sarah passed the child to her and took a deep drink of her tea .

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• At Barvas Lodge knickerbockered ladies with good stud pearl earrings invited me in for tea .
• She's as generous as Robin Hood and all his merry men, she's as kind as Florence Nightingale and then as kind again, right super mum she has x-ray vision, she can see through me, with a voice or rival calm when she called me in for tea ,
• They asked me in for tea , and we all listened to the morning news on Radio Tonga, crackling over the miles from the aerials down in Tongatapu.
• "They've got a central exchange somewhere up north and they put you on hold till the local mob come in for their tea ."
• And then in for your tea at six and then after you had your tea cattle.
• The unsmiling housekeeper came in with the tea things.
• Then she started going on about her new red tap-shoes, and how the music nun wanted to teach her violin because she had such good pitch, and we all joined up in a long line, each with a hand stretched out on to the should of the one in front, and we began to march round her, chanting very softly, "How green you are, how green you are, how green you are, how green... "and then louder and louder as we danced away from her still in our long Indian file, till we got right to the top of our street where we played another game altogether, totally ignoring the yells of fury from the lamp-post, and when our mums called us in to tea we all ran in and forgot about her.
• She had risen this morning with the intention of going into town and meandering among the shops, perhaps treating herself to a new bonnet, or buying Cissie those pretty boots she had so admired some days ago when the two of them had walked up and down Ainsworth Street, browsing in all the shop-windows; afterwards, Beth might have called in to the delightful tea rooms at the comer of the boulevard.
• Miss Pugh crept in with more orange tea and a plate of buttered teacakes, and Brett stirred and opened weary eyes.
• He'll be in for his tea directly."

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• To his surprise, Molly threw away the dregs of tea in her beaker and held it out for him to fill with the frothing liquor.
• Then he noticed the third cup with some dregs of tea remaining in it!
• It hissed out in the dregs of tea .

after_CJS----------preceding_prep----------(back to top)

• After tea and lots of talking, I rang my Mum, singing the praises of epidurals.
• After tea , when the children were settled, he would go down to the pub and get half a bottle.
• But after the tea had been cleared, the cups put away, everything tidied, then the three of them sat around in broken sentences.
• After tea , if he was in the mood, the chiropractor would go out and shoot starlings in his garden, because they had been introduced from Europe.
• After tea she had to ride out on Midnight, which she could work in with going up to Uncle Knacker's to see the new horses.
• After tea he dozed through an old Peter Sellers film at the King's Road Classic, dined off a biriani, dozed through an old Tati film at the Baker Street Classic, and crept upstairs to his flat just in time to meet Mounce coming downstairs from his den.
• After tea , when we were small, we stayed with our mother while our father went to evening service.
• But after tea , Mother went up to Bobbie's room.
• After tea Lewis produced one of his best, and fastest spells of the tour to reduce Sri Lanka to 349 for six.
• after tea .

of_PRF----------preceding_prep----------(back to top)

• When they went in halfway through the morning for a warming mug of tea , Elizabeth opened the oven door and lifted the lid of the big brown earthenware stew-crock.
• Over a cup of tea she regaled the old lady with the story of her son and grandchild saving the wounded squirrel, and, leaving her to pass it on to her companions, she drove back to the surgery.
• This one's got a big mouth and I suggest, rather than put a sock in it, put a cup of 99 tea in it instead!
• If that's not your cup of tea , choose a karate or boxing club to learn the basic movements (see page 121).
• Evelyn asked the cab driver to stop at the small supermarket near her house, bought the bare necessities for a drink of tea and something simple to eat.
• Tasker's cup of tea almost disappeared in his maw as he picked it up for a sip.
• He fussed for a while over a large teapot, pouring both of us outsize cups of tea .
• He was in this morning having a cup of tea with me, and he said he was coming."
• The Chief Engineer, was on the dawn watch and shook me with a cup of tea at daybreak saying, "Hey Ron, I think that boat we wanted has just passed on her way into Poole."
• "I know that we should be asking questions instead of sitting on our arses drinking cups of tea ," the DI told him, pushing his half-empty cup away.

o'_PRF----------preceding_prep----------(back to top)

• "Can Aah 'ave a cup o' tea an' a bun, missus?" came a voice.
• "Oi, Carrie, where's my ovver mug o' tea ?" another docker called out impatiently.
• We'd better do as she says or we'll not get a cup o' tea .
• "Let's 'ave anuvver mug o' tea .
• Half an hour later, eased out of her coat and hat, her belongings piled by Stephanie's bed since they wouldn't fit in her room, she said, "You wouldn't have a nice cup o' tea , would you?"
• When I was young she used to come up to my mother's for a cup o' tea ; and I liked talking to the old lady.
• "Is thoo coming in for a cup o' tea ?" his father invited, but George shook his head.
• Those carmen are sittin' outside the wharves fer hours on end at times, an' they like ter come in fer a mug o' tea an' a chat.

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• So my mother had all her family spread for the tea .
• The history of Chinese culture, from the Neolithic period through to modern China, is presented thematically, through rituals for ancestor worship, technology, calligraphy, ceramics for tea and wine, Buddhist images, and goods made for foreign trade.
• We used to have an hour and a quarter fro lunch, half an hour for tea , and we used to er have to get the principal's tea ready and in the midmorning they always had tea made of milk.
• Instead we went to Tilleys Restaurant for tea .
• As I sat in the mouth of the cave looking out at the change in the weather, I wondered how a man in the Old Stone Age must have felt, staring out at the rain, knowing that if it didn't let up soon he'd have to go out in it and knock a mammoth on the head for tea .
• This was further demonstrated by the fact that, when I murmured some apologies that I must leave, he insisted on my staying for some tea .
• What's for tea ?
• They keep the television at the front of the bed, and receive friends there when they call for tea .
• Milly and Rosa, meeting for tea at Gunters, had their memories of the Easter holiday of 1926 sparked by the recent discovery by Mabs or Tashie -- it did not matter which, since the two friends were as close as sisters -- that the little dressmaker Madame Tarasova, patronised by the ladies from the Hotel Marjolaine in her cramped room above the boucherie chevaline, had set up in business in rooms above an antique shop in Beauchamp Place SW3.
• Restoration of the 16th-century house has taken two years, most attention going to the creation of women's lavatories and space for tea urns.

after_PRP----------preceding_prep----------(back to top)

• After an hour had been lost to rain straight after tea , Tendulkar drove loosely at Lewis and lost his middle stump.
• We'll come back after tea
• "Lady Westbourne claims she went to the ladies" retiring room after tea , so does Mrs Tucker, but they do not admit to seeing each other.
• Instead of calling for Elizabeth immediately after tea , she'd stayed watching television, thinking Elizabeth would wait for her anyhow.
• He can give no explanation for what he was doing after the tea break, before he took up the bowling."
• Well, Mr Davis can mull over that while he's having his cup of tea, and then we'll come straight to Mr Sedgewick and Mr Donson after tea .
• "I remember to this day coming out after tea at Jo'burg, 1948-49, going down on to the ground with Len; vast crowd, and this fellow comes out of it and says "only 30 more for the record, boys".
• Victory was achieved in spectacular style in the first over after tea , left-hander Sanath Jayasuriya swinging his first ball, from Tufnell, over mid-wicket for six.
• "Don't forget the manoeuvres after tea ."
• No she, I'll leave her for a, she's gonna have, have her tea in a minute, she can have a bit after her tea .

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• Most of them seemed to be going in search of tea and for a moment, she hesitated.
• The bell rang and Amiss went in to find a pair of newcomers in search of tea and toast.
• "You two spend a lot of time talking," she remarked one day, materializing beside my chair as Lynn shambled off into the house in search of tea to counter the Dionysiac influence of the southern sun.
• There's no time for niceties, so we quickly dress and roll up our sleeping bags before the crowd outside invades in search of hot tea and coffee.

before_PRP----------preceding_prep----------(back to top)

• As a kit I was envious of my cousins on the Pembrokeshire coast who could shoot off after school to get in a spot of sailing before tea .
• The turning point for England was provided by Stewart, in the final over before tea , when the accomplished DeSilva aimed a leg glance at Jarvis.
• Midst a lot of no-balls, which helped no end, they picked their way though the furious gunfire, finding the odd boundary, encouraging each other, and finally seeing off the follow-on a ball before tea .
• She calculated that there would be time for a quick dip before afternoon tea , which Juliette normally served at a quarter to four.
• "The casuals had dinner from 12.45 to 2.0 p.m., worked from 2.0 p.m. to 3.30 p.m., and from 3.30 had a make-and-mend and washed their shirts before tea .
• The last lockings are at the ridiculously early hour of 4.30 p.m. to give the lockkeepers time to finish duties before their tea .
• Akram said: "I didn't need to take the new ball before tea because the old ball began to swing.
• "And now I look at you, my lad, a good wash before tea wouldn't come amiss either."
• Why don't you go down to the sea and get a blow before tea ?"
• Their third win in 42 Tests came 15 minutes before tea on the fourth day and was their first over the Kiwis in 11 Tests since the two countries first met at this level in 1982-83.

stove_n----------PP_on----------(back to top)

• Arthur Shaw, the third man who shared their shelter, was trying to make tea on a primus stove.
• Thus sheltered, he was making a cup of tea on the petrol stove.
• They either brew up tea on a little gas stove beside their car, or pop into a coffee house for a bun and a flick through The Observer Book of Birds .
• The Colonel's batman brought brandy, and Stephen thought of the men in his platoon and the way they conjured cups of tea on tiny spirit stoves in damp trench walls.
• We made a last cup of tea on the camping stove and retired midnight.

lawn_n----------PP_on----------(back to top)

• Tea on the lawn, spaniels at one's heels, scarlet and dark green... the colours of the rightness of the world and of his place in it!
• My mother instructed her deferential staff to serve us tea on the croquet lawn.
• "Let us have tea on the lawn again!" shouted the Collector from the window, but no one paid any attention to him.
• She smiled to herself, at a vision of new friends and television programmes, of various people having tea on a lawn, sharing parcels and visitors and family photographs, being alone when they chose to be alone.
• Reminiscent of a 1930s tea dress, our flower-patterned summer frock will grace any gathering -- a garden party, a summer wedding or afternoon tea on the lawn.

day_n----------PP_on----------(back to top)

• You say that after tea on the day of the murder you were with the Count in the salon and then went to the balcony."
• "Ah, go on, Mam, you'd need tea on a bad day like this," Patsy said encouragingly.
• Their third win in 42 Tests came 15 minutes before tea on the fourth day and was their first over the Kiwis in 11 Tests since the two countries first met at this level in 1982-83.
• We went everywhere: from garden parties in the grounds of castles, wedding receptions in marquees, hunt balls in assembly rooms, university teas on graduation day, garden fetes in the bishop's palace, to the annual parties of car salesmen, the golden weddings of simple folk -- once I even remember a gypsy funeral -- ladies' night at the masonic lodge, and the British Legion get-together.
• The difference in the bowling attacks then became rather noticeable; by soon after tea on the third day, West Indies had rattled up 411 for 5 when Lloyd declared, with 50 from Fredericks, 135 from Richards, and Greenidge becoming only the second West Indian after Headley to score a century in each innings against England.
• Opening up shop after Pakistan had followed on 473 behind, he was still behind the counter at tea on the final day, "praying for success" as he steered his side towards 657 for 8 dec, the highest Test total ever made under such circumstances.
• My 18th birthday was that summer and I remember having a birthday tea on a beautiful sunny day, opening my presents.
• With a tail as fragile as the West Indies', South Africa were uncomfortable at 188 for four at tea on the second day but the durable Hudson and Adrian Kuiper saw them through to the close without further loss against a lacklustre attack.
• Crawford travelled to New York by himself and booked into the Algonquin Hotel just before Christmas 1966, tucking into a turkey sandwich and cold tea on the festive day and desperately missing wife Gabrielle and baby Emma, who were staying with Gabrielle's father on his farm in Kent.
• Teas on Q.T. Days

table_n----------PP_on----------(back to top)

• She put their tea on the table.
• He had left home a little before eight, having put a cup of tea on the bedside table next to Lyn, walked through the village and climbed the fell.
• Before the Colonel and his wife had helped themselves from the sideboard to cakes and sandwiches, and Fru Moller 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.
• Her mam would be singing with tea on the table.
• I told him I'd have his tea on the table at half-past four, and practically pushed him out of the house."
• She was crying quietly, a cup of milky tea on the table beside her.
• When Auntie Jean slammed Uncle Ted's tea on the table at the end of each day -- a meat pie and chips, or a nice bit of rump steak and tartar sauce (he hadn't the nerve yet to go vegetarian) -- she sat opposite him with a stiff drink and demanded facts about Eva and Dad.

tray_n----------PP_on----------(back to top)

• It was Ben, with two mugs of tea on a tray.
• At three fifteen Mavis brought us in our tea on a tray with a plateful of shortbread biscuits.
• She came through with a pot of tea on a tray with two mugs, a bottle of milk and a bowl of sugar.

afternoon_n----------PP_on----------(back to top)

• Mervyn had visited the flat once for tea on a Sunday afternoon when her mother was still alive, but the occasion had not been very successful.
• At the hotel Jane Postlethwaite made it worse by inviting them to tea on the following afternoon.
• My mama asks if you would care to come to tea on Saturday afternoon at four o'clock.
• I go to my nephew's for tea on Saturday afternoons and if the weather's not too bad I get off the bus in Glenfair Road and walk down the Drive.

June_NP0----------PP_on----------(back to top)

• Thanks to the two teachers from S.W. London who served tea on the 27th June under considerable difficulties -- a temperamental urn and lack of support from others in their area.
• Thanks go to the Inner Kent girls for arranging such a nice tea on the 21st June.
• Thanks go to the Inner Kent girls for arranging such a nice tea on the 21st June.

pot_n----------PP_in----------(back to top)

• "Any tea in the pot?"
• When the water boiled she made more tea in the silver pot, refilled the milk jug, found clean cups and a plateful of almond biscuits, and carried the tray back to the terrace.
• Someone brought mint tea in a silver pot, on a chased, silver tray.
• Is it, is there any more tea in that pot?
• You make a cup of tea for a friend who has called around to express their condolences only to find as you pour it out, that there is no tea in the pot.
• Is there any more tea in that pot?
• Your mother's gone out, but there's tea in the pot."

kitchen_n----------PP_in----------(back to top)

• By 9.00 the streets would be filled with fumes so he always made the most of his 7.30 deep breathing routine, standing on his doorstep for a full five minutes, taking in great gasps of air, while the tea in the kitchen brewed.
• "Oh God," she was muttering, as she made herself tea in the empty kitchen.
• An invitation to tea in the farmhouse kitchen was an almost unbearable delight; bright cinders glowed in the polished black stove; hot, freshly baked scones, butter, cheese, ten minute fresh eggs, milk from the sombre-eyed cows round the door; the scent of peat smoke, soothing all cares.
• Riva responds with a recitative of all the pressures on her time, makes a counter-offer of a quick cup of tea in the family kitchen.
• Mark came home one evening to find Edwin Pettigrew, the vet, drinking tea in the kitchen with Sophia.
• Sometimes I would hear conversations about the war when some of the older men in the dale came to chat and have a cup of tea in the kitchen with Uncle Tommy, who had come to take over Low Birk Hatt after Father died.
• But each morning, when the entire team warm their hands on steaming mugs of tea in the kitchen at Foulrice Farm, spirits will be lifted by thoughts of a date with destiny on March 18.
• "There's tea in the kitchen and a drink if ye'd rather."
• I went to his house and saw his studio and we had tea in his kitchen.

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• He sat down again on the very edge of the chair and they drank the tea in silence.
• Helen poured herself another cup of tea in silence.
• Mr Rochester drank his tea in silence.
• Leonora sipped her tea in silence, watching him dispose of a large slice of cheese and several wholewheat biscuits.
• We sat and drank our tea in silence then Dad stood up and told me to tell Mum, when she returned, that he'd gone to have one last talk to the relief officer.
• Juliet's throat felt dry as she poured the tea in silence.
• They finished their tea in silence; not because they disliked the suggestion but because it was the patrol leader's idea and his decision.

minute_n----------PP_in----------(back to top)

• I can get your tea in a minute.
• Well let's have a cup of tea in a minute.
• You're gonna have some tea in a minute when daddy comes.
• I've put the kettle on and then we'll have another cup of tea in a minute.
• I'll get you more tea in a minute."
• Gonna have a cup of tea in a minute?
• I'll make you a cup of tea in a minute.
• So we we'll have a cup of tea in a minute.
• No she, I'll leave her for a, she's gonna have, have her tea in a minute, she can have a bit after her tea.
• "I'll bring you some tea in a few minutes," he said.

China_NP0----------PP_in----------(back to top)

• I wouldn't have this girl's job -- not for all the tea in China!
• Which he couldn't do now for all the tea in China.
• George Rudd was on tour; Michael Lamonte, according to his lady friend, was filming at Pinewood; Berenson had left the business for school-teaching and wasn't about to throw it up, thank you, for all the tea in China, and did Meredith realise it was gone midnight?
• You won't get him stopping here, not for all the tea in China.
• "The chief agent was awoken at six in the morning; he had to ask John Wakeham, you know how good John is at this sort of thing, to quit his room at Topps Hotel (he won't stay in the Grand for all the tea in China and who shall blame him?) and pop down to Kemp Town and arrange bail.
• Frank wouldn't get involved in owt like that for all the tea in China.

clubhouse_n----------PP_in----------(back to top)

• And there's sure to be tea in the clubhouse."
• "It's tea in the clubhouse, Miranda," she said, her face long with disapproval.
• Afterwards the participants had a substantial tea in the clubhouse.

afternoon_n----------PP_in----------(back to top)

• They gave you half-a-crown each for your lunch every day, four old pence for coffee and four old pence for tea in the afternoon.
• yeah, and there's just a little tea room and they sell, lunches at dinner time and teas in the afternoon, right opposite Bradgate's Park
• There aren't enough biscuits; you can have tea and coffee in the morning but only tea in the afternoon; no-one knows where the switches are or how the equipment works; and so on.
• Then we decorated the school ready for a really splendid children's tea in the afternoon, which was usually followed by a lantern slide show in the evening for the parents, also very enjoyable.
• they was told not to have a cup of tea in the afternoon, and they had a
• Of course, in England we were used to er especially at the beginning of the war, we had tea in the afternoon of course, and er when we got there it was dinner at night, with you know, meat and vegetables every night, that sort of thing, so it was quite a surprise.

room_n----------PP_in----------(back to top)

• I wondered if you'd care to come along and have a cup of tea in my room.
• He arrived just as Hannah was giving Matthew his tea in the breakfast room.
• Over tea in the front sitting room, overlooking Bedford Square, she filled him in on her background.
• After the doctor left Muriel ordered tea in the drawing room.
• "I'm sorry," I replied, "I forgot to tell you I'm boxing against the Eton Mission tonight and am giving tea in my room to the boy I'm boxing."
• So it was that he escorted Betty there in 1986, taking tea in the Tiffin Room and enjoying a plate of fish and chips.
• In the end, I decided the most prudent moment in the day would be as I served afternoon tea in the drawing room.
• "He gave me tea in that Chinese room of his.
• Lunch was provided in a cafeteria and tea in a common room -- an environment which sounds uncomfortably similar to that of more youthful days, and in fact he signed himself in one letter as "Advanced Student".

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• In Newcastle she came to a self-service cafeteria and, with a cup of tea in her hand, went to an empty table.
• The old lady, clad in a woolly mutch, sat head bowed, with her cup of tea in her hand.
• Nursing my mug of tea in both hands and feeling the warmth of the rum through my body, the thought crossed my mind as I watched the mortar team sitting on the grass in front of me, "What if the Germans discovered where we were, and got our range?
• It was the duty officer prowling with a cup of tea in his hand.
• She cradled a polystyrene cup of tea in her left hand while her right held a cheap filter cigarette between her fore and middle fingers in a gesture of surprising delicacy.
• "Is our guest still asleep?" he asked as he walked through into the kitchen in his towelling robe, the cup of tea in his hand.
• A bandage round his head, a cup of tea in his blunt hands, he looked like the only survivor of some great catastrophe, and Nathan could understand exactly why he'd been able to move India-May to tears and why he'd been given a room on the first floor, one of the large ones, for nothing.
• Julie cradled the mug of tea in both hands and looked at the wall clock on the other side of the kitchen.
• Her shoulders were hunched up high and her lips were pressed together tight and she sat there gripping her mug of tea in both hands and staring down into it as though searching for a way to answer these not-quite-so-innocent questions.
• Ryker passed her once more, glancing at her, cradling a plastic beaker of tea in his hand.

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• He was used to contrasts: Mother taking morning tea in bed with an old shawl round her shoulders and her hair pinned up under a boudoir cap, her face sticky with face cream as he kissed her good bye before school; and Mother in full evening dress decked out in false pearls, her eyelashes beaded with mascara, dominating the stage in any play's Last act...
• In the morning they experienced the delight of tea in bed cruising above the clouds.
• A cup of tea in bed.
• Ski Scott Dunn (081-767 0202) also aims for high standards in its chalets with treats such as tea in bed every day and a champagne breakfast once a week.
• He'd fetch us all up a cup of tea in bed with a bit of toast."

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• one after your cup of tea in the morning
• Yes I, after I lost my daughter I had to go into erm, into the factory to make aeroplane pieces at Burnt Mill cos I was so bad with my nerves after I lost her, er just afternoons I had to go and then I was taken ill I couldn't do it, well then after my erm, I got my family off to school I took a part time job in erm one of the factories making tea in the mornings for the office and coffees and that for the office and then in the afternoons I used to do the tea as well, I used to cycle there, I quite enjoyed it until my right hip started coming bad then I had to pack it in, but I was in there, I was there for about four years and I thoroughly enjoyed it you know making tea and that, I didn't have to take it round only collect the money to go round and collect the money, but used to have to put the trolley outside and they used to come and get their tea each one, of which they knew which was their mugs and cups ha, you know, I, I thoroughly enjoyed that job, really great
• This would take the chill off the shelter and provide hot water for a cup of tea in the morning.
• On the other hand, Sandy Lyle's caddie Dave Musgrove sometimes gets the other side of the coin from the affable Scot, who occasionally brings his bagman a cup of tea in the morning before they play!
• Staff at Watford Gap say they're not looking for a place in the annals of high cuisine, just to continue making their customers a nice cup of tea in the morning or a nice cup of tea with their tea.

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• And er I he used he used he u used to take lunch he wouldn't he wouldn't take tea dinner he used to have like to have tea in a bottle.
• And er he used to be he he mother used to make make some tea for him and warm tea in a bottle in a glass bottle you know.
• he had this tea in his hot water bottle and he

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• And Mogg believes that the difficulty of ordering tea in the Waldorf Hotel these days is symptomatic of the decline of an empire, a feeling I'm sure we've all experienced from time to time.
• Players were given a welcoming morning coffee, followed after the match, by high tea in the Belleisle Hotel.
• Admiral Lord Nelson is said to have stopped for tea in the local Anchor Hotel on his way to join the British Fleet at Trafalgar.

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• Top left: Sue and Reg Bass enjoy a cup of tea in the garden
• Fifty people (the other thirty had disengaged themselves at the first mention of Dickens) were now taking tea in the gardens of the Albion Hotel under the shelter of parasols.
• The garden was beautifully kept by the gardener, and sometimes on summer Sunday afternoons we had tea in the garden with Auntie Maude and Auntie Ivy.

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• The culmination of the afternoon was -- at Fen's suggestion -- tea in a quaint picture-book shop whose bowed windows with their original bottle-glass panes overlooked a busy thoroughfare.
• "It was so sunny, and we swam, and we had a picnic, and then we had tea in that little village shop on the way home.
• I drank mint tea in the carpet shops (and found Stefan Grappelli, Bryan Ferry and Ben Kingsley listed in one shop's order book).

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• Did did tea towel you could have one or something
• Knitters will find lots of fun ideas in the "Knitted Toys Book" by Jean Greenhowe (priced at GBP8.99, with over 50 lovable toys to knit); there is also a battery-operated "Fuzz Remover" (price GBP5.99) which is the perfect gadget to remove bobbles and fuzz from tired knitwear and there are plenty of other items with general appeal including toys, cards, tea towels, gift sets and so on.
• Pillows, pillowslips, two tea towels.
• What tea towel?
• and say goodbye to tea towels!
• Always scrupulously wash and dry a board between uses, preferably drying with disposable kitchen paper rather than a tea towel to avoid transferring flavours or bacteria.
• Cool for 5 minutes then cover with a damp tea towel.
• Opening the cupboard he saw that it contained a collection of unmatched crockery and two folded clean tea towels, both dry, and on the bottom shelf an assortment of flower vases and a battered cane basket containing folded dusters, and tins of metal and furniture polish.
• Tea towels innit, on Thursday.
• Leave to cool, covered with a sheet of non-stick baking paper and a damp tea towel to keep it moist.

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• A complimentary afternoon tea is served to all guests.
• So we could come back, we'll have afternoon tea , we'll have er scotch pancakes and
• Afternoon tea , provided by the students of the Beverley College of Further Education, will be available in the Mayor's Parlour immediately after this concert.
• It was three o'clock, time for her afternoon tea and biscuits, and she often felt a bit irritated around that time.
• The tables were filling up for afternoon tea .
• All guests are served afternoon tea .
• Afternoon teas -- Charge for any chance afternoon teas .
• Snacks and afternoon tea can be enjoyed on the sun terrace facing the Jungfrau mountain.
• "Actually, I'm feeling bad because I've committed you and me to afternoon tea .
• When he did show signs of depression I could usually shake him out of it, and we took a schoolboyish delight in finding ways to disconcert Ralph's snooty man, Talbot, who brought morning coffee and afternoon tea up to the library, and evidently disapproved or both us and our enterprise.

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• It included forty cigarettes, a white sliced loaf, tea bags, two lamb chops, half a pound of liver, pork for Sunday dinner, two tins of peas, two pints of sterilised milk -- "Not because I like it, but because it lasts longer," he said.
• Use cold tea bag or cold milk.
• I thought it were a tea bag.
• Dead tea bag.
• Tetley make tea bags make tea.
• Get some tea bags and the mince Ann.
• While you're waiting for the kettle to boil erm, get a cup from the cupboard and a tea bag from the tea jar, put tea bag in the the cup and then wait for the kettle to boil and o , once the kettle has boiled you put your hot water into the cup and le , and let the tea brew for a little while And then, after you let it brew you can either add milk to it or, do not add milk to it.
• Above: Tins filled with hand-baked biscuits, shortbread or tea bags, from GBP7.25, Lakeland Plastics
• A tea bag can stay longer in the cup.
• This was more power for the cause -- these people use tea bags and drive on the wrong side of the road, they hang fish on clothes lines and then eat them dry.

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• She had forgotten about her tea caddy and the friendly shopkeeper in Sunningdale and she had soon forgotten about the kindness of young people and was reminiscing about the days when she was not alone at the villa but shared it with seven others.
• The tea caddy is on the kitchen table.
• While Family Choice warmed up I went into the kitchen and found the tea caddy and put the kettle on the gas.
• He searched the kitchen and found the household cleaner standing by the tea caddy, a sprinkling of white powder beside it on the formica.
• All burglars know that ninety-eight per cent of all housewives decide to hide things in the tea caddy."
• Using er use the tea caddy on that.
• tea caddy
• The main trade in jewellery was supplemented by almost equally huge sales of other items anything from a tea caddy spoon and cigarette holder to a jet Bible and model of Whitby Abbey.
• The tea caddy was empty too.
• Coventry put the kettle on the stove, put the teapot and the tea caddy and sugar on the table, and then took off his own perfectly dry shoes, and set them against the stove.

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• Four of the eight servants in the Lundy household were seated around the scrubbed kitchen table, drinking tea , finishing their breakfast.
• Chosen her as she sat drinking tea and eating chocolate biscuits and enjoying her small triumph.
• A typical Peto story tells how when dispatched by The Observer to photograph a major rail disaster, he came back with a picture of an exhausted rescue worker drinking tea , man's ability to fight disaster and overcome it having inspired this warm-hearted humanist photographer.
• Although we conduct our interview in an air-conditioned hole at Paul Merton's spiritual home, Channel 4, drinking tea from unwieldy tureens, it is the ever-dependable Beeb who have thus far harnessed his slippery talents most deftly.
• The pleasure of drinking from a good quality glass is like drinking tea from fine china.
• At the door of the Registrar's office was a long line of people ending at the desk where the Officer's clerk sat drinking tea and lording it over the supplicants.
• I try to explain to the two silver boots [now accompanied by the projectionist, drinking tea ] what is wrong but I cannot make myself heard even out here.
• Jack Firebrace and Arthur Shaw sat on the firestep smoking cigarettes and drinking tea .
• They sat inside, drinking tea from enormous enamel mugs.
• Having eliminated some traditional habits such as drinking tea , coffee, and cola-based drinks, and eating chocolate for seven weeks, you now have the chance to include these in your diet once again.

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• Well this I think's Well it smells better than camomile tea .
• Or camomile tea yes .
• "I will obtain some camomile tea .
• Inspector Fouchard took advantage of the pause, having now ascertained from Rose that Auguste's qualification for his presence ran deeper than camomile tea .
• If you have a warm drink, try milk, cocoa or a herbal drink such as camomile tea .
• "Camomile tea ," cried Auguste.
• Camomile tea okay, I don't know how many is in your packet?
• I've started drinking camomile tea on occasion
• "Au diable, your piroshki," muttered Auguste, rushing out with a tray of camomile tea for Lady Westbourne.
• Eggs, new era, camomile tea .

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• Well the alternative would be to have had the tea break in between
• I mean in terms of hours of work and tea breaks and whatever it is you had, you know.
• "Where were you after the tea break, sir?"
• Only at the end of the tea break did it reappear again without a guard.
• At tea breaks and lunchtime I never saw him eat more than a bar of chocolate or a biscuit.
• Well again er I would say conditions were were terrible as far as I was concerned, er a as far as tea breaks and what have you were concerned, you didn't have any what we would call official tea breaks, you simply took your chances and made a cup of tea and hid behind a bulkhead or whatever to to drink this, er if you got caught by the foreman or the manager or somebody, then you were more or less bagged on the spot.
• There was also a mobile canteen, whose function was to supply urns of tea and light snacks, rolls, etc, at snap time, a snap or tea break being allowed by the same wartime act.
• lunch time tea break time, things like that.
• you'd eat them before what tea break?
• For example, coffee breaks, tea breaks, and a lunch hour are all incorporated into our work hours.

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• The Manageress there erm I was there and she, I, after I'd been there eighteen months, she had a heart attack and the girl took up her tea tray, one of the girls took up her, because she wasn't on duty till about just quarter to six to do the money.
• Peter put the tea tray down with difficulty on a table already strewn with books and papers.
• She got up briskly as she spoke to confront Mrs Hassock and the tea tray and shield Lucy from those penetrating eyes.
• The fire had died down to a dull glow and Patrick was just beginning to doze off when there was a soft knock on the door, and it opened to admit Jane, the younger of the two maids, carrying a large tea tray.
• And, again in contrast to being a useful, helpful sensible little girl, was her cosy friendship with the changing series of under-housemaids who laughed so readily at her jokes and gave her lumps of sugar from morning tea trays -- sometimes it was a peppermint.
• "You can take a tea tray up to the wood and slide down to the back garden.
• Ella made a violent gesture of annoyance, nearly capsizing the tea tray which the languid girl had now brought.
• Like a tea tray in the sky
• There was keen interest in lot 63 (est. $12-18,000) an early A.E.Warner, Baltimore tea tray, one of the handsomest early American examples of the form from any city, with applied grapevine border and flat-chased interior, eventually bought by the Maryland Historical Society for $28,000 (GBP20,000).
• Mrs Wilson finished her tea and placed her cup and saucer on the tea tray to her left.

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• How long does our usual tea urn take to boil?
• A Victorian stuff-over settee made GBP320; a mahogany hexagonal occasional table, GBP200 and a Sheffield plate tea urn, GBP170.
• Opposite, alongside a loudly dripping tap, Sister Annunciata topped up the already bubbling tea urn, switched on, Vi suspected, without the priest's permission.
• It could just as well have been the 20th birthday of the Eden Gardens tea urn, and as far as the Indian government is concerned, there is nothing like an international cricket tournament for persuading the electorate that, with polling day just around the corner, Rajiv is the boy to vote for.
• on the afternoon, but I wi when I'm doing that I will check up about the tea urn and
• But my hopes of achieving even this modest target have been dealt a body blow by the off-season purchasing policy of our committee, which put sightscreens before deckchairs and a new tea urn in its list of priorities.
• There's none for the tea urns or the washing up or..." her voice dropped dramatically.
• Again there was the picture of men carrying great tea urns, and as Stanley Spencer said himself, "mad tea urns made for lunatics."
• Restoration of the 16th-century house has taken two years, most attention going to the creation of women's lavatories and space for tea urns.
• Luckily they had had experience at holiday times and during sick leave of meeting this kind of emergency and to the rest of the staff the tea trolleys seemed to be running perfectly smoothly, except that they never knew which face would be behind the tea urn.

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• Hunte's second touchdown in the 23rd minute followed a defence-splitting run from full-back by David Lyon and, nine minutes later, loose forward Chris Joynt took advantage of a searing midfield break by stand-off Tea Ropati and a clever pass from hooker Bernard Dwyer to add to weary Wigan's misery.
• "But I was delighted by the way Tea Ropati took over complete control and directed the play in midfield."
• St Helens have signed Tea Ropati, the New Zealand centre, who was invalided home with a knee injury early in the Kiwis' English tour, writes Edward Kennedy.
• TEA ROPATI grabbed his first drop goal in three seasons to sneak St Helens into this morning's second-round draw of the Regal Trophy.
• St Helens have signed Tea Ropati, the New Zealand centre, who was invalided home with a knee injury early in the Kiwis' English tour.
• But it was fellow New Zealander Tea Ropati who led Saints to victory.
• For St Helens, Tea Ropati, the New Zealand centre who was invalided home from the recent tour after only two matches, could make his debut.

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• PHNOM PENH -- The Cambodian Defence Minister, Tea Banh, said yesterday that government troops repulsed an offensive by mostly non-communist resistance forces last week near Sisophon, AFP reports.
• Other principal ministers: Bou Thang (Vice-Chair); Chea Soth (Vice-Chair); Say Chhum (Vice-Chair); Say Phouthang (Vice-Chair; Chair of Central Control Commission); Kong Samol (Vice-Chair; Minister in charge of the Cabinet of the Council of Ministers); Gen. Tea Banh (Vice-Chair; National Defence); Hor Nam Hong (Foreign Affairs); Gen. Sin Song (Interior); Chhay Than (Finance).
• Hun Sen (SOC) Gen. Tea Banh (SOC) Gen. Sin Song (SOC) Kong Samol (SOC) Hor Nam Hong (SOC) Chem Snguon (SOC) Khieu Samphan (Khmers Rouges) Son Sen (Khmers Rouges) Son Sann (KPNLF) Ieng Muli (KPNLF) Norodom Ranaridh (Sihanoukist) Chau Sen Kosal (Sihanoukist)
• Dec. 19 China agrees that UN should play a role in resolving Cambodian problem Hun Sen Chairman; Foreign Affairs Bou Thang Vice-Chairman Say Phouthang Vice-Chairman; Chairman of Central Control Commission Chea Soth Vice-Chairman Kong Samol Vice-Chairman; Minister in charge of Cabinet of Council of Ministers Say Chhum Vice-Chairman; Agriculture Gen. Tea Banh Vice-Chairman; National Defence Pung Peng Cheng Minister Assistant to Chairman of Council of Ministers Kong Korm State Affairs Inspectorate Koy Buntha Social Affairs and War Invalids Chea Chanto Planning Ho Hon Industry Sin Song Interior Chhay Than Finance Pen Navuth Education Ung Phan Communications, Transport and Posts Chheng Phon Information, Press and Culture Taing Sarim Trade Ouk Bun Chhoeun Justice Yith Kim Seng Health Khun Chhy Minister attached to Council Ministers Hor Nam Hong Minister Assistant in charge of monitoring Foreign and Judicial Affairs Cha Rieng Chairman of National Bank Cheam Yiep Director-General of General Directorate for Tourism Sim Ka Chairman of State Control Committee Sam Sarit Director of General Department for Rubber Plantations
• It has the following members: Norodom Sihanouk (President), Hun Sen (SOC), Gen. Tea Banh (SOC), Hor Nam Hong (SOC), Maj.-Gen.

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• The Crown's failure to present such an argument may not have been unconnected with the tension existing between the King and the north American colonies consequent upon the recent Boston Tea Party.
• For more than a hundred years throughout the Dales of Yorkshire, the pivot of community life, the one platform for self-expression open to everyone was the chapel It had a virtual monopoly on social life, organizing the annual outings, sports days, tea parties and concerts which were the highlights of the year in an era which was starved of communication and leisure and wearied by the constant treadmill of work on the land.
• But although he was so sensitive to conversation that he picked up the slightest nuance, his combination of " tea party cosiness and cold intellectuality" was "if not exactly intimidating, at least restraining".
• It was exactly like a children's tea party, complete with squabbling and displays of temperament.
• Singing carols around the Christmas tree and exploring the cobbled streets takes you back to the era of the Boston Tea Party.
• Plainly they had interrupted a mourning tea party.
• Thomas and Elizabeth lost their first child five months after the marriage; the next, Nancy or Nany, was buried at Catherine Hill on 16 December 1773, the day of the Boston Tea Party.
• We did not offer the all-day hospitality of previous years but were delighted to see members at the tea parties we organised, and enjoyed chatting with visitors to our stand in the Women in the Rural Community tent.
• I want to get home to the party tea , it's ten to four.
• Before Bill Clinton played sax on Arsenio Hall , before Big Arnie came out for George Bush, before the movie-made presidency of Ronald Reagan, there was the Boston Tea Party: American politics has always been more surreal than any satire.

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• After this Boston tea party it will be a wonder if they can do anything else.
• The East India Company later gained a monopoly to deal with the North Americans, but resentment caused the colonists to rebel against the traders and at the Boston Tea Party, the shipment of tea was thrown into the harbour by the rebels.
• In 1773, the Boston Tea Party took place.
• Singing carols around the Christmas tree and exploring the cobbled streets takes you back to the era of the Boston Tea Party.
• Thomas and Elizabeth lost their first child five months after the marriage; the next, Nancy or Nany, was buried at Catherine Hill on 16 December 1773, the day of the Boston Tea Party.
• If he loses he still won't quit but the FA could be forced to throw him overboard in a latter-day Boston tea party.
• For the finest and freshest in home made snacks and mouth watering baked goods visit the Boston Tea Party and enjoy a well earned break.
• The Boston Tea Party: Sydney Biddle Barrows advises on all sorts of etiquette
• Meola accused Arsenal striker Ian Wright of "talking trash" and claimed England players had been calling him fat in exchanges as bitter as the Boston Tea Party.
• "It's the Boston Tea Party in reverse."

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• Erm right so the we agree to delegate to the F and G P the of the existing lease and the taking on of a new lease underlease for the coffee room, tea room operators.
• Within seconds they had click-clicked with their cameras and, having "done" Rhosili, disappeared off into the tea room.
• Sion Hill Hall open to the public, a beautiful Edwardian Country House with superb collection of antiques, also tea room, Kirby Wiske, Thirsk (off A167), 2-5pm.
• Scott later said that Ellice was a "worthy vain old busy-body... who had been trying to make himself look clever in the tea room by finding mare's-nests in the form of non-existent errors in the arrangement of my plans".
• Now the Palais promised, "A buffet lounge, tea rooms, dancing partners, bewildering surprises, wonderful new musical dance selections, brilliant flashlight illuminations, gorgeous decorations and fantastic stunts."
• Play park for little children, with attractions including fantasy castle, domestic animals, tea room and burger bar, and new Jungle Adventure Indoor Play Area.
• Tea rooms and N.T. shop.
• Tea room, shop and museum.
• Customers in the tea room of the Walker Art Gallery look on as the statue Death of Virginia is cleaned by experts Arlinda Ribeiro, left, and Polina Agapaki, of the National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside Picture: RICHARD WILLIAMS
• A nice night's sleep seems like a nice change, but nightmares have habits of popping up, once when I was five I had a dream that my friends and I were being ripped apart and eaten by a giant, now when the time comes to go into that great big C D tea room in the sky, could you change something?

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• Because people will put books into tea chests then you can't lift them.
• In fact he couldn't get them all in, and he acquired a second box, a small tea chest he found, with metal corners.
• On either side of the gangway were neat piles of trunks, cases, cardboard boxes and tea chests -- even a bed, propped on its side and wrapped in polythene.
• "In the course of unpacking tea chests, we found a tatty little thin cardboard box which John was going to throw away.
• They were alright, big glass things which you could surround and pack in tea chests with bits and pieces and equipment in.
• Tugging out the tea chest, he brushed the dust from the top of the box and pulled open the leaves of the lid.
• In the same tea chest he came across a cube-shaped case made of orange plastic.
• They were down there, behind the shrubbery, where first Livingstone had stood and then the tea chests, youths, out to cause mischief, their viciousness as unspecific as their obscenities were spontaneous.
• Nowadays the buildings were filled with furniture awaiting repair, lawn-mowers, deck chairs, tea chests full of bottling equipment or archaic kitchen utensils which "might come in useful one day", two deep freezers and a decrepit tricycle and a rocking horse, the property of Paul Young, their only child.
• On the left, near the end of the gangway, was a blue suitcase resting on top of a tea chest.

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• At ten o'clock she gave him beef tea and brandy.
• The latter use the word which? or what sort of?, as in fact do all attributives, whereas the means for questioning the predicate qualifier is normally how?; (6) and (7) are examples: (6) they can't map the parts inaccessible: which parts can't they map? the book missing was stolen by Twyford: which book was stolen by Twyford? (7) Alastair likes his beef tea strong: how does Alastair like his beef tea? we find the prisoner guilty: how do you find the prisoner?
• Third, there would frequently be discrepancies between the meanings of sentences with a predicate qualifier and "fuller versions" when it is replaced by a clause; for example, consider: (31) the jury found Ernest guilty the jury found Ernest; Ernest was guilty (32) Alastair likes his beef tea strong Alastair likes his beef tea; his beef tea is strong In the latter case, for instance, there may not be any strong beef tea at all; the point of uttering the sentence may be to complain about that very point.
• The latter use the word which? or what sort of?, as in fact do all attributives, whereas the means for questioning the predicate qualifier is normally how?; (6) and (7) are examples: (6) they can't map the parts inaccessible: which parts can't they map? the book missing was stolen by Twyford: which book was stolen by Twyford? (7) Alastair likes his beef tea strong: how does Alastair like his beef tea ? we find the prisoner guilty: how do you find the prisoner?
• 4.1 Let us now consider the fourth position for adjectives: predicate qualifying occurrence, seen in: (1) Alastair likes his beef tea strong the jury found Ernest guilty she buys her dresses ready-made
• She would send over beef tea and other delicacies to try and cheer them up.
• Julia's pain seemed to have left her, and she lay seeming to drift in and out of sleep or unconsciousness, Anne could never be sure which, as she sat beside her, wiping her face, or tried to feed her with beef tea from a feeding cup.
• Dr McNab now ordered the stimulants to be decreased gradually from day to day, meat and beer from the stores being substituted for the brandy and beef tea .
• It is revealing that, in a very similar way, to be can be present or omitted in an actual non-finite clause where it signals the passive of a verb phrase although its presence is generally preferred: (48) Cromwell ordered the Abbot of Reading (to be) tried and executed immediately The same insertion is sometimes superficially possible for predicate qualifiers; but in reality this indicates a main verb which is semantically compatible with the relation of either construction; an example would be like (or want) which makes it possible for us to set (49) beside (8): (49) Alastair likes his beef tea to be strong However, with most preceding verb phrases, such a change to the predicate qualifier construction will produce a result which is ungrammatical and may even present difficulties of interpretation: (50) (a) the children have kept the fish-tank clean: how have the children kept the fish-tank? (b) the children have kept the fish-tank to be clean
• (Chapter 5) (1) he likes his beef tea strong how does he like his beef tea ? (2) muzak drives them mad *how does muzak drive them?

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• Subject: Mak us a cuppa tea , Mam, we beat Leeds
• "Now put the kettle on Polly an' we'll 'ave a nice cuppa tea then Katie an' me'll get cracking."
• "Like a cuppa tea ?"
• I went for a cuppa tea , didn't I?"
• "Well, let's have another cuppa tea , luvvie, and forget all about it... it's not worth it.
• I'm gooin' ter put the kettle on an mek a cuppa tea ."
• Brian, have a cuppa tea .
• Now, your sardine, mate, your sardine is more my cuppa tea , your sardine is a fellow wot can be got for eighteen pee, about three and sixpence ha'penny, in the East Road.

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• As he entered a hall in Chard, disrupting a tea dance, he was greeted with the cry: "Clear off."
• The legendary Plaza ballroom will find itself playing host to the London Pink Dancers at the opening tea dance, and the cavernous Tramway has been earmarked for the last night ceilidh.
• Afternoon Tea Dance with Festival Extras for Senior Citizen's groups and lunch clubs.
• They formed clubs and held tea dances to which local girls were invited.
• Tea dance, Leisure Centre, Spennymoor, 1.30-3.30pm.
• Tea dance, Leisure Centre, Spennymoor, 1.30-3.30pm. 50-plus session, Spectrum Leisure Complex, Hunwick Lane, Willington, 12noon-4pm.
• "I went over to see them in a tea dance one Friday and they said it was like they were being auditioned.
• Tea dance, Leisure Centre, Spennymoor, 1.30pm.
• The splendour of the Georgian ballroom in the Assembly Room can be experienced by all taking part in the tea dance.
• Tea dances with cakes; it all sounds rather dull in 1991, but to us then the cakes were manna from heaven and the dances were the greatest of fun.

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• I made myself a pot of mint tea and sat silently at the living-room table.
• (Elinor did not drink either tea or coffee and only the occasional glass of mint tea .
• With his young assistant and a much-loved black cat we sat on the floor of his studio, sipped mint tea and listened to his words relating to the ancient science.
• More mint tea was brought.
• She planted the fruit trees and bushes she had always wanted, made her own bread, and experimented with such things as parsley jelly and mint tea , all to her heart's content.
• Someone brought mint tea in a silver pot, on a chased, silver tray.
• "It was a bit hot," she said, reacting slowly, then recovering as she sipped the mint tea Dan had ordered.
• "Mint tea is not really the best thing for you," her husband said.
• In this study, some of the Afro-Caribbean informants draw on well-established home remedies such as mint tea or "bayrum" (a poultice) to deal with minor illnesses such as colds or headaches (surface rules); but when faced with persistent or unusual problems may refer to others or make up new or more specific recipes (basic rules).
• The driver's home was en route so we stopped off for mint tea there.

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• Recovering patients rapidly acquire anticipatory responses to the noise of the tea trolley, and some patients may show excessive anxiety reactions to the sight of a hypodermic syringe.
• Then a tea trolley clattered in the distance, and the tension broke.
• The journey was slow and subject to inexplicable stops in mid-country; although the war in Europe was over, the carriages were still full of men in uniform; there were long queues for the tea trolleys at York and Grantham but Constance arrived in London that evening with her excitement undimmed.
• "Movable "libraries" are ideal, for instance, old tea trolleys which hold books, slides, pictures, a hand viewer, box of assignment cards etc.
• Being in neither carpet nor the RAF left me out of the conversation, until the tea trolley came round.
• The tea trolley was wheeled out.
• It was hell: The stroke victim forced to sit in a tea trolley.
• Alida turned away, to the tea trolley, impeccably laid out with the Worcester china, for she intended to give the impression of perfect comfort, and a good background, of genteel upbringing and attention to detail.
• Luckily they had had experience at holiday times and during sick leave of meeting this kind of emergency and to the rest of the staff the tea trolleys seemed to be running perfectly smoothly, except that they never knew which face would be behind the tea urn.
• Indeed, the sound of the tea trolley created a Pavlovian reaction among the 30 men.

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• just as cliche haunted Henry's daily journey to the train, his socks from Marks and Spencers', his regular nightly bedtime, his fondness for a cup of tea at ten thirty in the evening, just as he seemed to be destined to be as remorselessly English as the plane trees in the street outside or the homecoming commuters clacking through the twilight towards the village, so his one existential act (hadn't someone called it that?) seemed destined for suburban predictability.
• You can have tea at their house.
• True, tea at the Gray d' Albion with La Belle Mimosa posed embarrassing problems; tea at her villa opened up even more alarming possibilities.
• The Chief Engineer, was on the dawn watch and shook me with a cup of tea at daybreak saying, "Hey Ron, I think that boat we wanted has just passed on her way into Poole."
• Norma said that she was going to spend the best part of the day as the guest of the Mayoress of Brighton -- lunch in the Royal Pavilion -- and then tea at the Marina.
• There was little time for dalliance when we came out from Sunday School as I was expected to be home for tea at half-past four.
• At this time George was in educational work and with no parish responsibilities I somehow volunteered to make tea at a keep-fit class which the local W.I. wanted to start.
• "And talking of watching the tides, it's nearly half past four, and Mrs McD does a high tea at half six.
• We could "ave tea at Ma's, and then go up West in the evenin' fer a bit of all right."
• Rhoda said when she came to tea at the weekend, "You only remember what you want to remember, Ken; serve you right.

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• On the eve of her seventh birthday, Nanny told Artemis that she had been invited downstairs that very afternoon to take tea with her father.
• As for me, I liked going to tea with Mr and Mrs Wilson.
• Tea with a fish breakfast or coffee with beefsteaks have never been my own great favourites in the game of what to drink with what.
• Are we having tea with this?
• Staff at Watford Gap say they're not looking for a place in the annals of high cuisine, just to continue making their customers a nice cup of tea in the morning or a nice cup of tea with their tea.
• Kissing all the boys, she made her way up to bed, taking her tea with her.
• A man called Slade made a statement that he had seen Cooper twice in London on the day of the murder, indeed had had a cup of tea with him in a cafe.
• DRINK TEA with Chinese food.
• "I'll have a cup of tea with one of those new thin pills, whatever you call them," asked the other girl.
• Maxim left him cackling and slopping his tea with mirth.

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• The house was quiet, no sign of Matey's bustling presence, and when she walked into the kitchen, taking off her shabby black hat, pulling the hat pins out of her abundant hair, she found Dr Neil, sitting at the kitchen table, his tea before him, quite alone.
• The young nurse, whose feet ached something cruel and who was desperate to snatch a cup of tea before somebody else asked her to do something for them, looked them up and down.
• Now get up, sit over there and you can have a cup of tea before you go home."
• So when he turned to her casually in the car, and suggested that they call in at his house for some tea before they parted, Folly found herself leaping on the suggestion with almost indecent haste.
• When Charlotte had finished, emphasizing how vital it was to find the document the kidnappers wanted, Natasha poured them both more tea before she made any remark.
• Time for a cup of tea before they're due in down the road.
• She gave me an extra pillow, kept me supplied with boiling bottles, brought me Vichy, and my meals on a little round table, actually produced a bottle of alcool camphre & frictioned me & gave me some lime flower tea before I went to sleep.
• "What have you learned, Lili?" asked my mother, at last sitting down with a cup of tea before her.
• "You rest there a while, Mrs Miller," the girl said with unusual boldness, "and I'll make you a fresh brew of tea before I start on the drawing room."
• Maybe get a cup of tea before we come home."

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• Sir Geoffrey rang through to his secretary to ask her to bring in tea, and we chatted over tea for a few minutes.
• "You're welcome to walk back home with Will and me and have a cup of tea for your trouble."
• "Au diable, your piroshki," muttered Auguste, rushing out with a tray of camomile tea for Lady Westbourne.
• "See if you can rustle up a cup of tea for Paula and me, please."
• Lineages also contributed to the expenses of funerals: members made a collection toward the cost of feeding the guests; if the dead person was a well known and respected man, the household might have to provide two meals a day and continual tea for up to a week for a hundred or so visitors (who sometimes brought a contribution of a sheep or tea or sugar).
• You'll need a big tea for that one.
• You make a cup of tea for a friend who has called around to express their condolences only to find as you pour it out, that there is no tea in the pot.
• A cup of tea for mummy.
• Tea for me and one sugar.
• After a bath and an early night to stave off jet-lag, we awoke refreshed and ready for the mammoth breakfast of fresh berries and juice, buttered muffins, hash browns, bacon and eggs -- sunny side up, of course -- coffee for me and English breakfast tea for Kenneth.

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• "I tell you what, pet, let's pop into the Buffet and get a nice cup of tea before the train goes.
• The alarm clock overhead read 5.28, time for a quick cup of tea before his new shift began.
• They sat for some time talking and drinking tea before the music began.
• Some misunderstanding arises about the overlap during the afternoon period, because within this period one group of staff will have to take lunch when the afternoon shift arrive on duty and the others to take tea before the early shift goes off duty.
• Again he paused; then lifting the cup, he almost gulped at the tea before saying, No, they are both... dead."
• Off then for a drive around the edges of Constable country where the scenery was very impressive, before stopping for a welcome cup of tea before the return journey home.
• Patrick mercifully was still asleep, giving Fon enough time to drink a cup of tea before getting him up and boiling the water for his bath.
• I remembered I'd had nothing to eat or drink before leaving the house, and thought how awful that I hadn't even made Toby a cup of tea before obeying my impulse to run.
• I was fascinated by her story and waited impatiently while she refreshed herself with tea before continuing.
• She looked up at the clock, wondering if there was time for a pot of tea before lunch, but deciding that the second gong would sound soon, and she could wait.

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• It was the duty officer prowling with a cup of tea in his hand.
• An invitation to tea in the farmhouse kitchen was an almost unbearable delight; bright cinders glowed in the polished black stove; hot, freshly baked scones, butter, cheese, ten minute fresh eggs, milk from the sombre-eyed cows round the door; the scent of peat smoke, soothing all cares.
• When the water boiled she made more tea in the silver pot, refilled the milk jug, found clean cups and a plateful of almond biscuits, and carried the tray back to the terrace.
• A bandage round his head, a cup of tea in his blunt hands, he looked like the only survivor of some great catastrophe, and Nathan could understand exactly why he'd been able to move India-May to tears and why he'd been given a room on the first floor, one of the large ones, for nothing.
• Juliet's throat felt dry as she poured the tea in silence.
• But now the queen has invited Mary Robinson, Ireland's president, to tea in London.
• They asked me to help dress the models who wandered around showing clothes to the ladies having afternoon tea in the restaurant, and after a bit I did some modelling myself.
• After the doctor left Muriel ordered tea in the drawing room.
• Mark came home one evening to find Edwin Pettigrew, the vet, drinking tea in the kitchen with Sophia.
• Bill has got quite good at preparing little teas in the last few months.

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• After I got my free plaster and sticky tape to keep the cotton wool swab on I found not just a cup of tea and rich tea on offer but a wide choice of beverages and crisps and chocolate biscuits all individually wrapped -- from looking at that feast you wouldn't believe the NHS is strapped for cash.
• Crawford travelled to New York by himself and booked into the Algonquin Hotel just before Christmas 1966, tucking into a turkey sandwich and cold tea on the festive day and desperately missing wife Gabrielle and baby Emma, who were staying with Gabrielle's father on his farm in Kent.
• A dazzled junior seized the opportunity to press tea on them both, his eyes never leaving Catherine, and McLeish, amused, accepted a cup.
• Thanks to the two teachers from S.W. London who served tea on the 27th June under considerable difficulties -- a temperamental urn and lack of support from others in their area.
• The verger did not bother to remove the Sun with its obnoxious picture but, with a smirk, planted the mug of tea on it.
• She smiled to herself, at a vision of new friends and television programmes, of various people having tea on a lawn, sharing parcels and visitors and family photographs, being alone when they chose to be alone.
• When Auntie Jean slammed Uncle Ted's tea on the table at the end of each day -- a meat pie and chips, or a nice bit of rump steak and tartar sauce (he hadn't the nerve yet to go vegetarian) -- she sat opposite him with a stiff drink and demanded facts about Eva and Dad.
• He would rise early, make himself tea on his landlady's stove, work for three hours with a pause for breakfast, then go out to walk in Regent's Park, unless it was raining.
• It was understood that on their return they would have tea on Grace.
• As for drinks, there would be silvery twirled urns of tea on tap for the grown-ups and milk or fresh lemonade for the young.

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• He thrust a mug of tea into my hands, with the remark, "Get that down you, Piper, and keep your head down."
• I dashed back in to make Dad his sandwiches and pour his tea into his billy can.
• "Not yet; let's get a sup of tea into the lad and ask him a few questions.
• This will show whether they produce a literal description, ("You lifted the teapot') or whether they can appropriately describe the action and its consequences non-literally ("You poured tea into the cup').
• Coventry smiled non-committally and spooned more tea into the dregs in the pot.
• Pouring the tea into two thick white mugs, she gave one to her friend.
• After eating, George took his cup of tea into his study and resumed his contemplation, thinking back on the happenings before the Dean's death, looking for the little ends of events, threads of gossip, half-noticed looks and gestures which would lead him to the murderer, if murderer there had been.
• He put two spoonfuls of tea into the teapot, then poured in the scalding water from the kettle.
• Feeling irritable and out of sorts, she took her tea into the workroom, hoping her carvings might be as therapeutic to her as to the people she carved them for.
• Great Aunt S was simply pouring her tea into the saucer, whereupon she drank it down with a loud slurp.

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• And to complement your oriental meal, serve fragrant China tea from a lovely matching 1 litre/2 pint teapot.
• Terry arrived late on Friday night so on Saturday he went to see Sarah with an invitation to tea from his mother.
• With that they were packed off for a cup of tea from the mobile canteen.
• Commodities like fish, milk, and vegetables might be transferred locally; labourers -- as in India and Southern Africa -- regionally, together with grain, rice, coal, and perhaps some manufactured goods; while the great international transfers included human migrants, cotton from India, Egypt, the United States, and some parts of Africa and Latin America, tea from India and Ceylon, coffee from Latin America, wheat from Canada and the United States, gold from South Africa, silver from Mexico, copper from Central Africa and South America, cattle from the Argentine and the United States, lamb, wool, and dairy products from Australasia.
• There was cake, satisfying and fruity, and he sat on the edge of the chesterfield in Isobel's sitting-room and ate it appreciatively between gulps of strong, sweet tea from one of her best bone china teacups.
• He also bought a teaspoonful of tea from one of the artillery women for ten pounds, to be paid after the siege was over or, in case of death, by his executors to certain of her relations; to lend substance to this rather nebulous arrangement which at first only seemed to excite the suspicion of the woman selling the tea, Fleury had drawn up an elaborate letter which began impressively: "To Whomsoever May Find This Missive, I, George Fleury, Being Then Deceased," and which seemed to Fleury to give a certain legal solemnity to the transaction.
• Louise poured tea from a silver pot, into cups of Sevres porcelain.
• we'll drink tea from a flask
• Delaney gratefully accepted the mug of tea from Nell.
• "Following the events of 1916, Madam Lundy's control over her children quickly became complete," Lee said, watching Nuala pour tea from a fine silver teapot.

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• Lyn brought tea in and then supper on two trays.
• She fell over herself in a spasm of new gratitude, only to give him an earful because he wouldn't bring his own tea in and talk to her.
• No I've brought, bringing other cups of tea in.
• of sealed that you could go in and have a cup of tea in.
• Getting teas in and stuff
• There's another cup of tea in, er, Margaret if you want a cup.
• Well you gonna, oh I've gotta bring a cup of tea in for you, have I now?
• Dad brought the pot of tea in and sat down.
• Not, Albert er God what was the other one from here that used to make the tea in ?
• you don't put enough tea in, milk in my tea first thing in the morning is that right?

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• Come over later and have a cup of tea, said Lucy, each word measured, sounded cold and reasonable, just a cup of tea in front of the fire and no heavies from either of us.
• Lydia put a mug of tea in front of her master and then took herself off to the dairy, where she and Martha unashamedly listened at the door.
• It's not good enough," Lizzie, said, plonking a cup of tea in front of Sara.
• With his second cup of tea in front of him, he sat down to look at the newspaper.

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• When we had finished laughing we sat round the embers drinking tea until the first green light of dawn showed in the eastern sky.
• Can I conclude on Harrogate then and we adjourn for tea until three thirty.
• However, whilst agreeing they might not be annoyed with her, she thought she would feel guilty if she did not start tea until 6 p.m.
• I had orders not to take in tea until half past ten."
• He never ate between breakfast and sunset, but could not last without tea until the meal he clearly still found extraordinary, eaten by wax candlelight in the dining-room at an hour when all his shepherds were asleep.
• We seem to live on tea and more tea until the next cup of tea comes round don't we?
• The social worker helped her examine more closely the cognitive "roadblock" to action, and she conceded that she was jumping to conclusions that they would be annoyed with her if she postponed tea until 7 p.m.

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• All hybrid teas and the majority of the floribunda roses have to be dismantled petal by petal if you want a really good end result, and then re-assembled for use in the pressed flower picture.
• I asked Roger Pawsey of Cants, Mark Mattock, Gareth Fryer, Ken Grapes of the Royal National Rose Society and Robert Harkness, five of the country's leading rose experts, to name their personal choice of the most highly scented hybrid teas and floribundas.
• Hybrid teas (large-flowered bushes).
• Of course there is a Rose Garden with British-raised hybrid teas and floribundas, Sanders White climbing over the arches and Rambling Rector and Goldfinch covering the arbour.
• Because of the popularity of the Hybrid Tea , H.P.s have been largely superseded by their offspring.
• Most often identified with the widely known and popular Hybrid Tea , the bush form includes many different kinds of so-called "Old" roses as well as "Moderns".
• Disbud hybrid tea roses for the best blooms and give them a foliar feed if it is necessary.
• So it has been for centuries, yet the multi-petalled bloom of modern times, epitomized by the modern Hybrid Tea rose (or, as it is abbreviated, H.T.) and probably most people's mental image of all that a rose is and should be, is a product of modern hybridizing and cross-breeding that did not exist even as recently as medieval times.
• As I mentioned in the chapter describing the actual techniques of pressing ( see pp. 36-45 ), it is essential to dismantle red roses, or any roses of the hybrid tea or floribunda varieties, and to press them as individual petals.
• Grow taller shrub roses at the back of the border, floribundas in the centre and miniature roses or hybrid teas near the front.

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• Cup of herbal tea ?
• There are many herbal products that can help you relax or sleep, including herbal teas which, when taken with a little honey, can give an excellent night's sleep.
• Try out a range of alternatives including different blends of freshly ground coffee, exotic herbal teas , low alcohol drinks and unusual fruit and vegetable juices.
• 2 Weetabix (or 1 Weetabix plus a sliced banana) served with milk from allowance and 2 teaspoons sugar OR 6 prunes (soaked overnight in hot tea -- ordinary or herbal tea is suitable) served with 5oz (125g) natural yogurt
• Substitute with herbal teas .
• Rachaela made coffee, and tea for Jonquil with one of her herbal tea bags.
• I found Bunny in the girls' kitchen the next morning trying to find something to eat that wasn't raw carrot, muesli or Ryvita and something to drink other than herbal tea .
• Gloria finished making her herbal tea and turned to glare at Tamar, who was helping herself to a slice of Jett's toast.
• He is drinking Morning Thunder herbal tea .
• Use them in herbal teas or potpourri.

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• The licensed Barn Restaurant is open for delicious home-cooked cakes, coffee, lunches and cream teas .
• Within a few hours drive of Gwent, for instance, lie some fascinating areas -- the Forest of Dean, formerly a major coal&rehy;producing area; Snowdonia, where the evidence of centuries of quarrying and mineral extraction is heaped everywhere; Pembrokeshire, where pretty fishing villages once exported coal, and Cornwall where mining was once a much bigger earner than cream teas .
• After a warm-up climb on the interesting granite cliffs of Basher's Harbour near Pra Sands, and fortified by a cream tea , we hastened, for it was now after 7pm, across the moorland from the car-park south of Mullion Cove, to Vellan Head.
• When the suggestion of a flight along the whole coastline of South Devon and Cornwall, stopping perhaps for a cream tea at Land's End, and back up along North Cornwall, Devon and Somerset was made, it struck me as a perfect combination of scenic beauty and very little flight planning.
• With hungry mouths to feed, the Conference Centre laid on cream teas during the afternoon -- which visitors enjoyed as they reputedly got through "an amazing 600 scones and cream" -- and an evening barbecue.
• After this highlight we cycled on roads back to base and to a cream tea in Dorchester.
• An afternoon of nostalgia, cream tea and the piano music of Patrick Redmond.
• From Sussex cream teas to stylish restaurants, Battle offers the widest range of refreshments.
• A ferry then takes you on a short trip across the Camel Estuary to a well deserved cream tea at Padstow, and your journey's end.
• Then they built a sand-castle with ramparts and a moat and turrets, and stopped off at a cafe on their way home and treated themselves to a delicious cream tea .

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• There she could sit at one of the outdoor cafes and read her letter undisturbed while sipping a cool drink of lemon or perhaps iced tea .
• "To make iced tea !"
• And do yourself a favour by not wanting tea instead of coffee: "Sir, would that be hot tea or iced tea ?
• Last year's innovations include Promise Ultra, a spread containing no saturated fat, which has been instantly successful in the US, and is likely to arrive soon in the UK, and an iced tea , jointly promoted with Pepsico.
• Iced tea , of course!
• Specially Iced Tea , he's a monk.
• Room and terrace are dotted with lacquered green garden seats and high drinks stands (from which the noiseless Leroy serves iced teas ), furniture that Mrs Guest developed with Stephan Boudin of Jansen; a genius of decorating, he worked with the Duchess of Windsor, and created "Chips" Channon's celebrated Amalienbourg dining-room in his house in Belgrave Square.
• Over iced tea and sandwiches, she'd mentioned her useless attempts to gain last-minute admittance at design school.
• "You were about to make some iced tea ," Adam reminded her quietly, and she blinked, strangely surprised.
• After an hour someone brought him iced tea .

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• They queued up, and eventually got two cups of strong steaming hot tea .
• Carrie felt sad when she saw the worried looks on their faces as they sat talking quietly, their hands cupped around mugs of steaming hot tea .
• Retire is the right term for what he does: it is a ritual demanding a nightcap, a pee on the edge of the firelight, another nightcap, the preparation of a vacuum flask of hot tea for the bedside and a laborious change into old-fashioned pyjamas.
• Pour on the hot tea and stir in the fruits.
• The fragrance of hot tea wafted towards them.
• "There's nothin' wrong with any of us that a cup of hot tea and a ciggie won't put right."
• Their spirits revived by a cup of hot tea , the two men took their leave of the signalman.
• We sat by the dining-room fire drinking our hot tea .
• The tea 's as hot as it could be.
• Before I set out, I took Aunt Louise her usual breakfast cup full of hot tea .

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• But, warmed by the fish baps and sweet tea , he wished to offer more of his home to his kind friends than he had previously rehearsed.
• The station staff plied me with penguin biscuits and saucers of sweet tea in an attempt to discover my embarkation point, but the only information I would part with was my Grandfather's address and place of employment.
• In the move between the last position and this, a number of the Jocks had taken the opportunity to make a hot drink, and as the chill of early morning crept into them, the sweet tea lifted their morale.
• Tony ate his meat and potatoes and drank two cups of strong, sweet tea .
• Their love was almost palpable in the small room, warm as the fire, strong and soothing as sweet tea .
• I said a large mug of strong, sweet tea would do the job and she agreed, adding that it was the best thing "after a shock".
• Breakfast was a meal and a half: porridge with cream; bacon and rich-yolked eggs; deep-yellow farm butter on thick fresh toast, and mugs of sweet tea .
• What he needed was a cup of strong, sweet tea , but I didn't rate my chances of finding my way to the kitchen and back again without a ball of string or a map.
• He poured him out a mug of hot, sweet tea and handed it to him.
• Fenella offered to make her some hot sweet tea and fetch some chocolate biscuits from downstairs to comfort her.

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• A crow's nest high above the street, a magpie's nest, phone light fire scads of books juice vitamin pills cold tea tobacco papers matches ashtray diary address book radio all within reach of the heap of pillows and quilts, tangled sheets and herself.
• Use cold tea bag or cold milk.
• "This tea is cold," he informed the daddy.
• The daddy finished his cold tea .
• Chuck noticed that instead of drinking the usual cold tea like the others he surreptitiously raised a hip flask to his lips a couple of times when he thought he was unobserved.
• guess who liked cold tea
• The jungle birds fell silent in the growing heat, and Jacques Devraux eventually called a halt and distributed flasks of cold tea that had been carried in satchels by the Moi bearers.
• Patrick finished the last of the cold tea and stood up quickly.
• After that, watched by her amused employer she emptied the pot of cold tea , scrupulously dried it, and set it to warm on the hotplates beside the fire, then placed a tea-caddy, ornamented with the features of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, a souvenir of their coronation, on the table, ready to spoon the required amount into the pot.
• In a beaker at one of the duty stations cold tea rippled in time with the siren.

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• As Margaret made the sandwiches and a pot of weak tea , Maura glanced around her.
• However, if collocations like" weak tea " and" powerful car " are so numerous as to evade any method of acquisition other than years of learning, how then should a machine-readable collocation dictionary be compiled?
• As such it has been used as a very weak tea (6g/14;oz to 600ml/1 pint/212 cups of water) (one cup per day) by male artists and craftsmen.
• She made herself some weak tea and drank it gratefully and then returned to her vigil at the window.
• She poured out a smile that reminded David of weak tea .
• "Weak tea , then."
• Wash away traces of tears with warm weak tea .
• Start drinking plenty of bland liquids such as water, milk, weak tea or orange squash (not orange juice or carbonated drinks), and aim to drink at least eight pints a day.
• But to allow him to go all the way to Oxford and then to airily dismiss the notion of writing for Witness over an arrowroot biscuit and a cup of weak tea was almost maddening.
• Mr Preston favours sheep droppings matured in a barrel and diluted to the colour of weak tea !

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• "Fat, lives on junk foods, strong tea and gossip; short on conventional morality, I'd guess, but not a bad sort.
• "Poor me," said Rhoda, "poor me," and she poured herself another cup of sweet strong tea , which burned all the way down.
• Bragg went over to the counter, where a man was pouring cups of strong tea .
• Cucumber sandwiches, therefore, delicious; sausage rolls poison, fruit scones good, cheese ones chalky; left-hand urn strong tea , right-hand urn weak.
• That is, if they smoke, get little exercise, overload their digestive systems with junk-food and drink gallons of strong tea or coffee.
• Once everyone had drunk a mug of hot strong tea , he sent his own men out to feed and check the stock which was kept down at Cherry Tree Farm.
• He observed that there are certain classes of English word combinations that neither syntax nor semantics can justify; for example, although the words" strong " and" powerful " may have a similar meaning, people prefer saying" drink strong tea " to" powerful tea " and similarly prefer" drive a powerful car " to" strong car ".
• These visions would appear, unsummoned, while she sipped cups of strong tea in clients' bedsitters...
• Vic makes a pot of strong tea , puts two slices of white bread in the toaster, and opens the louvres of the venetian blinds on the kitchen window to peer into the garden.
• She doesn't like you staying there all alone, and she thinks you study too hard and drink too much strong tea .

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• Occasional gestures towards the girls being included in maths are made, typically, via a girl sipping tea or standing decoratively posed in a mini skirt in a phone booth.
• He sat on the bench sipping tea and described his wealth to me.
• The scene was admirably summed up by the novelist William Makepeace Thackeray who, on attending an execution in 1840, wrote in Fraser's Magazine that the windows overlooking the scaffold "were full of quiet family parties of honest tradesmen, sipping tea with calm, and moustached dandies squirting the throng below with brandy and water".
• Her cuts were treated, her bruises examined, and then she and the two children sat in the lounge of one of the private wards, sipping tea and waiting for Bodie to come and pick them up.
• But Fardine, Olivia and I sat up with Dr Jaffery sipping tea and chatting until well after midnight.
• Apart from one lone Nigerian sipping tea , we saw no one else from the festival.

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• She'd have liked a nice cup of milky tea .
• Felt pretty chipper, as we scraped together enough coins to buy a shared polystyrene cup of milky tea .
• Smirking slightly, Zephyr accepted half a dozen biscuits and a bowl of milky tea , then rolled on the carpet to remove the crumbs from her whiskers.
• The boy thought longingly of his mother, but managed to help Miss Williams describe the location of the body to a startled local station sergeant and to drink a cup of sweet milky tea without being sick.
• She was crying quietly, a cup of milky tea on the table beside her.
• "She could talk and kept asking for glasses of water and milky tea .
• They had cups of sweet milky tea and they sat at a table.

ready_a +----------adj----------(back to top)

• Well tea 's ready for you.
• I think tea will be virtually ready.
• " Tea 's ready," he told them and set down the tray.
• Hurry up your mother wants to By the way your tea 's ready.
• Your tea 's ready.
• Why don't you go to your bedroom until tea 's ready.
• When the tea is ready hear me shout
• What time will tea be ready mother?
• your tea 's ready Here you are Don't read eat your tea
• "Well -- your tea 's ready."

stewed_a -----------adj----------(back to top)

• Stephen took his mug and breathed in the reassuring acrid smell of strong stewed tea .
• The air was close, soured through with the smell of size, canvas and stewed tea , and, around the entrance cubbyhole of Bert, the stagedoor-keeper, Goldflake cigarettes and the chancey whiff of Flossie, his aged spaniel.
• It is introducing a new "premium" tea on Britain's high speed trains -- and hoping it will bring an end to all the jokes about stewed tea .
• Mike filed his copy at quarter past four and went back to his desk and plastic beaker of stewed tea feeling well satisfied.
• "We were talking about the trip to Rome after Easter," said Sophia, pouring out a cup of stewed tea for Mark.

poured_a -----------adj----------(back to top)

• He took down a second mug from the dresser and poured tea for them both.
• He looked with concern at the scratches on Lucy's face, then poured tea which he insisted she drank at once.
• Mrs Hollidaye steadily poured tea .
• Sweetheart poured tea into her cup from a pretty tea-pot, adding milk from a tiny jug and sugar-cubes gripped in small silver tongs.
• Claudia's companion opened her picnic bag, poured tea into a plastic mug, munched genteelly on a ham sandwich.
• Sybil placed a small table at her elbow and poured tea into dainty china cups.

high_a -----------adj----------(back to top)

• You have breakfast on the train at King's Cross, lunch at Peterborough and High Tea at Durham.
• If you want to get back for your high tea , you'd better go."
• They sat at the table in the dining area to eat an absurdly early high tea .
• High Tea 's more of an event with Farley's Tea Timers.
• Gloria had missed High Tea .
• Good afternoon, erm I wonder if it's possible to book a table for high tea on er Tuesday the twenty first, that's er Easter Tuesday
• There was no sign of the girls, so I supposed they must have gone out again after their high tea .
• mind the time high tea was a glittering vision of a teetering
• It was considered quite an innovation when, after the First World War, the "progressive officials" of R. & R. Clark decided on "a combined "Annual"" in 1921, "instead of one section having a smoker all on their own and the other a high tea and gossip", as the ST[ put it.
• A high tea will be served at the end of the game.

decaffeinated_a -----------adj----------(back to top)

• The first decaffeinated tea to combine all the flavour of a traditional cup of tea with all the flavours of a modern one.
• Decaffeinated Teas & Tissanes
• Now they've discovered something totally unique, Lyons Decaffeinated Tea .
• One in five chose decaffeinated tea and coffee while 14% used artificial sweeteners.

pouring_a -----------adj----------(back to top)

• I was pouring tea .
• I tried to refuse but he slipped it into my pocket while I was pouring tea and when I was free he had gone."
• "Nothing much has happened here at all," Muriel said, pouring tea .
• By seven-fifteen, the first breakfasters were addressing themselves to eggs Benedict and I was pouring tea and coffee as to the service born.
• "Thrills and spills," Ella said, pouring tea into a mug for him.
• The story relates that an abbot was pouring tea for a young novice monk who had recently joined the monastery to learn kung fu.

loose_a -----------adj----------(back to top)

• Because, I mean there is a difference between fresh tea and and er loose tea , and erm tea-bags, because there is
• Well, Auntie had a tin of loose tea and tea-bags all day, like normal days, they drink tea=bag tea.
• Do you want tea bags or loose tea ?
• Better still, avoid paper altogether where possible; buy loose tea , and invest in a coffee percolator.
• It is now a matter of personal preference as to whether you use loose tea of speciality tea-bags.
• And the tea in tea chests, loose tea in tea chests and you used to weigh it up by the quarter.
• My mother though, she's er, she's does, she's not fussy about loose tea leaves, but she's gotta have a Glengetti tea-bag.
• Loose Tea or Bags?
• I mean, it is different, I never used to like the loose tea , when I was younger, but now I I sort of really taste the difference.
• Yeah, we have tea-bags at home, but downstairs, the tea machine, you gotta use erm, well, they use loose tea .

lovely_a----------adj----------(back to top)

• Th it's been pinpointed for us that all these lovely tea , coffee, and chocolate which we all adore, is, is one of the things which is causing the greatest distress and unfairness in the world.
• Dear, this cup of tea is lovely,
• Thanks to all the teachers from Inner Kent who helped provide a lovely tea at the training day.
• Many thanks to KENT for the lovely tea provided for the January meeting.
• And a lovely tea Hepzibah gave us!"
• Many thanks to KENT for the lovely tea provided for the January meeting.
• And a lovely tea Hepzibah gave us!"
• Lovely tea .
• "We had a lovely tea ," Maria said.
• Th it's been pinpointed for us that all these lovely tea , coffee, and chocolate which we all adore, is, is one of the things which is causing the greatest distress and unfairness in the world.

brewing_a -----------adj----------(back to top)

• Normally someone at or near the scene would be brewing tea but Dalgliesh had-no intention of using the washroom even to boil a kettle until the scene of crime officer had done his work.
• The little woman was brewing tea at a toy stove by the window.
• Outside the men whiled away the time brewing tea on the pavement.
• In 1979 Mrs. Nancy O'Donnell also retired, having been for 23 years an indispensable part of School life -- catering for numbers large or small, brewing tea and coffee, selling biscuits outside Room 18, applying plasters to wounded knees or offering sympathy to wounded spirits.
• Anyway, I got up, and went about my chores, feeding the cats and brewing tea for the rest of the still-slumbering inhabitants of my humble home in order to get them up and out to school and work, and I was thinking to myself as the kettle boiled that here was the start of yet another ordinary damned day, when the post clanked and slithered through the letter box.

lace_v----------subject_of----------(back to top)

• They whistled the recognition signal, "Roll out the Barrel", and were welcomed into the camp with tea laced with rum.
• Back at the rendezvous Stirling felt better after the usual tea laced with rum and was pleased that at last his team had managed to destroy some aircraft.
• "Was your afternoon tea laced with rum or something?"
• On some occasions when Bobby Hunt or Mary Scholten was present, Minton would remark jokingly, as he clutched his tea laced with whisky in a shaking hand, that his sensitive line was too sensitive that morning.

slop_v----------subject_of----------(back to top)

• Tea slopped from her cup as a shudder passed through her.
• She put her mug on to the tray; the tea slopped over the rim.
• Most of the tea had slopped into the saucer.
• Five minutes later he had slithered down the sandy cliffs, a mug of tea slopping in each hand.

brew_v----------subject_of----------(back to top)

• Peat-stained hands, grace before the meal intoned in Gaelic, the taste of tea brewed over an open peat fire, and the smell of heather borne on a keen sea breeze.
• While you're waiting for the kettle to boil erm, get a cup from the cupboard and a tea bag from the tea jar, put tea bag in the the cup and then wait for the kettle to boil and o , once the kettle has boiled you put your hot water into the cup and le , and let the tea brew for a little while And then, after you let it brew you can either add milk to it or, do not add milk to it.
• " Mum says the secret is always to warm the pot and let the tea brew for just five minutes."
• He did a crossword while the tea brewed.

flavour_v----------subject_of----------(back to top)

• It may be black or green tea flavoured with jasmine flowers, is very fragrant and is always drunk without milk.
• The Tollemarche ladies, in bonnets and cartwheel hats, gave teas at which they coyly sipped at China tea flavoured with lemon and mint.
• As no tea was grown in India during Earl Grey's lifetime, it is obvious that this was purely China tea flavoured with oil of bergamot.

an'_v----------subject_of----------(back to top)

• Those carmen are sittin' outside the wharves fer hours on end at times, an' they like ter come in fer a mug o' tea an' a chat.
• "Can Aah 'ave a cup o' tea an' a bun, missus?" came a voice.
• "But I'll miss the teas an' my knittin' lessons so I'll 'ave to go back."

bag_v----------subject_of----------(back to top)

• But there is no need to feel discouraged, because there are low caffeine drinks available in the shops -- like these PG tea bags that contain only one third of the normal caffeine content.
• If you bought her four lots of tea bags out of your ten pound yesterday, that correct?
• TEA BAGS

pour_v----------subject_of----------(back to top)

• Alexandra Smith, Amber Mills, Samantha Butcher and Joanne Baillie of the 4th Shanklin Pack enjoy a cup of tea poured by a Tetley tea man at a giant tea party to mark 1991 as Year of the Maze.
• Then the gong sounded for tea, which somehow had to be endured, the shrimps shelled, the bread buttered, the milk and tea poured into the cups, Victoria's cake to be cut into fingers so that she could eat it all up.
• Events are the start or the end of an activity eg kettle filled, tea poured out.
• She seemed to be eased by talking of her daughter, and by the time she stopped, apologetically, and drank some tea poured for her by Catherine, she looked exhausted but less like a wraith.
• Rain asked as she watched the tea poured.

soothe_v----------subject_of----------(back to top)

• After tossing restlessly for more than an hour, Fran got up and crept from the room and down the stairs, hoping that a cup of tea would soothe her nerves.
• The fragrant tea soothed her.
• Garlic will help protect you and peppermint tea will help soothe a churning stomach.

be_v----------subject_of----------(back to top)

• Tea is an uncommon luxury.
• The tea was brought in by Annunciata.
• * Tea should always be made in a china tea-pot -- metal pots will taint the brew.
• Wealth did not make him lavish, however; he had always been careful about money -- indeed, he was economical in all areas of life, even in small matters such as ensuring that all the tea in a tea -pot had actually been drunk -- and Joseph Chiari has remembered how he kept a regular account of his expenses in a pocket notebook.
• The tea was brought in by two of Louise's house-maids.
• Drinks, cocktails and afternoon tea are served in the library, with its views of the hotel's lovely hanging gardens, and you can also enjoy a drink in the Tiara Lounge or dance the night away at Bubbles, one of the city's most exciting discos.
• Ooh you're gonna have a cup of tea aren't you?
• Well your tea 's nearly ready, that's why I asked you.
• The Farewell Tea was spread in Hepzibah's kitchen: cold chicken and salad, a cheese and onion pie, a big plate of drop scones, thickly buttered.
• Our tea would be prepared and ready to eat.

spill_v----------subject_of----------(back to top)

• Kate had somehow knocked over her cup, and tea spilled on to the tray, splashing her skirt.
• After a few seconds the novice, with tea spilling out of the cup and down his arms, cried, "stop! no more will go in".
• So real was the sensation that his fingers slipped on the handle of the tea cup and when the tea spilt into the saucer he exclaimed, "Oh!

taste_v----------subject_of----------(back to top)

• About 60 per cent said they preferred them, many claiming that the tea tasted better -- even though the content was exactly the same as the square.
• The tea tasted horrible but at least it gave me the chance to have a little think.
• His tea tasted excellent, and there was nobody to disturb him.

make_v----------subject_of----------(back to top)

• Get the tea made and, no no.
• flowers, (fresh and dried), fruit, leaves (fresh and dried), bark and root, for emetics; a tea made with equal parts of peppermint leaf, yarrow and elder flowers plus boiling water is one of the finest cures available for colds, coughs and catarrh; of value for rheumatism, sciatica, and cystitis
• All 18 bedrooms have bathroom, TV, video channel, radio, telephone, tea making facilities.
• Dittany when dried is greyer than malotira, although the leaves are similarly furry like so much of the vegetation, which needs to conserve moisture in the hot atmosphere, and the tea made from it has a muskier, more soothing quality.
• You'd make arrangements beforehand, perhaps with the station-keeper, who would say to call down and he'd have a cup of tea made when the sergeant was out.
• Er he said what was gonna be cooked for tea, he said when there was a cup of tea made.
• All rooms with tea making facilities.
• All rooms have colour TV, radio, coffee and tea making facilities.
• A cup of tea could make the difference between a boxer fighting in one division or another.
• TV and tea making facilities in all rooms.

serve_v----------subject_of----------(back to top)

• Afternoon tea served daily 2 May-26 June, 22 Aug-25 Sep.
• Complimentary afternoon tea served to all Citalia guests staying 9 May-12 June and 12-26 Sep.
• And then, I liked having nice little teas served to me for a change; to have Wilson taking care of me and treating me like a lady -- because there was a little something between us.
• A summer afternoon tea and known as the tea most often served in Chinese restaurants.
• "Is tea still served in the Doctors' House?"

bring_v----------subject_of----------(back to top)

• Midge had been waiting out in the studio for five hours, fortified by cups of tea brought to her by the friendly police constables.
• "I would like some tea brought up, Gerard."
• I lay for what seemed hours on the bed, sustained only by cups of tea brought by an auxiliary nurse.
• These, including tea brought in by the East India Company from China, grew from around GBP500,000 in value in 1700 to almost GBP2 million by 1770.
• He drinks the tea brought to us by the koko gravely, and makes exasperated noises.
• By around 1910 the cultivation of rubber and tea had brought about a more permanent change.
• After all, the caller couldn't rely on his not noticing that Edwin hadn't come home last night until he didn't get his early tea brought to him.

come_v----------subject_of----------(back to top)

• Gotta make cups of tea coming down every half hour.
• Green tea comes from leaves that have been withered and dried immediately after picking to preserve their fresh green colour and light, scented qualities.
• "And now I look at you, my lad, a good wash before tea wouldn't come amiss either."
• Can we break for tea now come back at twenty five to four.
• The tea came up quickly, accompanied by biscuits, and Mrs Newton perched uncertainly opposite on the edge of an armchair similar to mine.
• It's Ice Tea coming in killing the boy's dad.
• We seem to live on tea and more tea until the next cup of tea comes round don't we?
• There is the fact that the very rocks on which we live -- no matter where -- may have originated through volcanism; that much of the gold and many of the other economic minerals that we use every day are linked with volcanic activity; that most of the world's best coffee and tea come from volcanic areas, and that there may be areas on the Moon and Mars which are analogous to terrestrial continents and oceans.
• Chocolate Rich Tea will come in thick plain or real milk chocolate and cost 69p for a 250gr pack.
• It was only when the tea came that her pleasure in such a welcome, in being given such evidence of the continuing affection in which she was held, abruptly waned.

arrive_v----------subject_of----------(back to top)

• My enthusiasm had waned by the time the tea arrived.
• The wafers finished, a large pot of tea arrived with a plate of fruit cake slices.
• Having completed our "good for us" walk, we settled down by one of the two huge log fires with our paperbacks in the happy anticipation that tea would arrive promptly at four and would consist of improbably thinly cut home-made bread and butter and other bakings, whose smell had been pervading the lounge for some time with forecasts of gratifications to come.
• Usually when the welcomed cup of tea arrives, my husband, with whom I work, hardly ever tells the customer who I am.

set_v----------subject_of----------(back to top)

• Ltd., Crown jewellers since 1,843, this, including an eight-piece Abercorn kettle and tea set on a silver tray, was ordered by Lutyens and its cost of GBP280 was paid in cash by Sir Herbert Morgan.
• It was all that remained of a new bone-china tea set she had bought only last week.
• Make tea-time fun time with this colourful Spot tea set from Ceramica Blue.
• The success of the portland blue Jasper range, which was launched last year, has lead to the addition of the Brewster tea set to the collection.
• Tea set
• That was my auntie and that was the l the woman who gave me that tea set I were telling you about.

spoon_n----------PP_with----------(back to top)

• At 10, he drinks his tea with the spoon held back,
• "Now what is there," Dorothea asked, stirring her lemon tea with the elegant long spoon, "what is there to prevent your coming?
• She breakfasted on fried bread and bacon, and tea with four spoons of sugar, before a full turkey dinner with the other 33 residents at her nursing home in Redcar, Cleveland.
• Because I have worked for some time now on the forming of music and sounds, and through this specific endeavour have become aware of the "molecular structure" parallel, I can see great form in "Beautiful Landscape Traversed By Electricity Pylons", "Tiny Aeroplane In One Expansive Sky", "One Cup of Tea With Spoon And Attached Shadows", "One Bogey Slightly Protruding From Person's Nose" and, apart from when I'm blackly depressed, Life is seen from inside me to be better every day because of my positive use of the rich energy that is emitted from every thing, live or dead.

milk_n----------PP_with----------(back to top)

• A fucking cheese sandwich and tea with milk."
• I like the tea with its powdered milk.
• Thorny puts down a saucer of tea with milk and sugar for the dog.
• BREAKFAST: One fried egg (104 calories), two rashers fried bacon (200), one slice of fried bread (170), two slices toast spread with margarine and marmalade (312), cup of tea with milk and sugar (75).

sugar_n----------PP_with----------(back to top)

• It appeared Mary would give her eye-teeth for a cup of tea with two sugars.
• Babur is having tea with four sugars.
• Hot tea with a little sugar.

queen_n----------PP_with----------(back to top)

• I wondered how many of them glanced down as they processed in their finery into the castle for tea with the Queen.
• I'm going to marry the Prime Minister and have lots of dresses with long trains and go to tea with the Queen."
• Mr K, as the headlines called him, was pleasantly enough impressed by the hospitality of Eden's dacha, Chequers, by tea with the Queen, and by learning from Winston Churchill how to eat oysters.

friend_n----------PP_with----------(back to top)

• Sometimes I've been drinking tea with a Sherpa friend of mine in the village of Kundy and there'll be a clatter up the stairs caused by a dozen people saying "We understand Hillary's here", as if that gives them the right to charge in and take over."
• I am sure that hon. Members have talked to constituents, many of them young women with children, who say bitterly that they feel trapped in their environment and dare not go out at night, even to have a cup of tea with a friend.
• Today it is almost impossible to get a cup of tea with new-found friends in the station restaurant.
• Every evening I had tea with the friend or two with whom I had arranged to mess for the "half", as a term was known at Eton.

mother_n----------PP_with----------(back to top)

• For instance when he visited Manchester in 1814 he wrote 9th September -- an exceedingly pleasant ride all the way from Leicester to Manchester... we found my poor mother (actually his step-mother) surprisingly well for a person of 80 -- dined at Brother's and drank tea with my mother and Aunt Weston", and on "Sunday, I went to my mother's and walked back with Aunt Evans to my brother's, she walked wonderfully for a person of 8212 -- drank tea again at my mother's.
• I insisted that I should pay her a rent of five shillings a week and also asked her, somewhat tentatively, if she felt able to come and have tea with my mother in Romford.
• Instead, he had dropped her outside the Half Moon in Portesham, exchanged with her a few platitudes about the working week to come, then driven home to Radipole in time for tea with his mother.

mug_n----------PP_into----------(back to top)

• "Thrills and spills," Ella said, pouring tea into a mug for him.
• Miss Honey poured tea into both mugs and added milk.
• She poured the tea into large enamel mugs.
• He poured the tea into a mug, added milk and sugar, then sat down at the table and began to eat and drink.
• Claudia's companion opened her picnic bag, poured tea into a plastic mug, munched genteelly on a ham sandwich.
• Pouring the tea into two thick white mugs, she gave one to her friend.

saucer_n----------PP_into----------(back to top)

• Doyle, who tipped his tea into a saucer, looked up over the rim of it.
• Great Aunt S was simply pouring her tea into the saucer, whereupon she drank it down with a loud slurp.
• Alec managed to slop tea into his saucer.
• My grandfather taught me necessary skills: how to tip my tea into my saucer and blow waves across it until it was cool enough to drink; how to cut an orange in half crossways and pack a sugar lump into each half and then suck out orange-juice and sugar together; how to walk along the crazy-paving garden path without stepping On any of the cracks or a tiger would get you; how to butter the loaf and then clutch it to your chest and then shave off paper-thin slices; what saint to pray to when you woke up at night and saw the devil moving behind the curtains.

cup_n----------PP_into----------(back to top)

• Sweetheart poured tea into her cup from a pretty tea-pot, adding milk from a tiny jug and sugar-cubes gripped in small silver tongs.
• Sybil placed a small table at her elbow and poured tea into dainty china cups.
• He poured more tea into her cup, fumbled with the bottle of milk and dropped the tin-foil top.

Ritz_NP0----------PP_at----------(back to top)

• Tea at the Ritz.
• Tea at the Ritz was a success.
• Let's go and have tea at the Ritz!"
• They had had tea at the Ritz and drinks at the Cafe Royal, and then more drinks at Lyons' Corner House in Coventry Street because they were fed up with swish places and Lyons' seemed more like home.
• Some papers later reported that he had stopped for tea at the Ritz but this unlikely frivolity was angrily and officially denied.
• I'll take you to tea at the Ritz!

meeting_n----------PP_at----------(back to top)

• Our thanks go to the Surrey, Berks and Oxon girls for the lovely tea at the April meeting.
• Many thanks to Toni Bergman and the other teenagers in the G'ford and Reigate areas of Surrey for a most delightful tea at the meeting.
• Many thanks to the Essex teachers who had undertaken to provide and serve tea at the January meeting.
• Thanks to the central London teachers for doing the teas at the October meeting and for providing some very nice home-made cakes.
• It is the turn of the teachers in the Richmond and Hounslow area to do tea at the next meeting.
• Hopefully all will be well for the teachers responsible for tea at the next meeting.

elbow_n----------PP_at----------(back to top)

• I showered and then decided to lie in a hot bath for a few minutes with a cup of tea at my elbow and the latest Kingsley Amis in front of my face.
• Billy was sitting with a mug of tea at his elbow, his flattish face looking serious as he spoke.
• She was, reading the Star with her feet up, a mug of tea at her elbow and a cigarette smouldering in a polish-tin lid.

day_n----------PP_at----------(back to top)

• Tea at the next Q.T. Day will be provided by outer Kent and Essex.
• Tea at Training Day
• Tea at the next Q.T. Day will be provided by Outer Surrey.
• Teas at Q.T. Days
• Thanks to all the teachers from Inner Kent who helped provide a lovely tea at the training day.
• Tea at Training Day
• Central London teachers are asked to provide tea at the next training day (17th October 1981).
• Tea at the next Q.T. day will be provided by Outer Kent and Essex.

house_n----------PP_at----------(back to top)

• And then was did they come back for tea at the house?
• She said it was very kind of you to make her a cake, and she's asked you to tea at her house!"
• One day both parents accompanied me to a fund-raising luncheon at the Savoy, an afternoon rehearsal, tea at the house of an old friend in Twickenham by the river, the recording of a TV show in which I appeared in front of a live audience, and supper in a lovely restaurant with the cast.
• After a hurried cup of tea at my house we were on our way to do a climb which had been a longstanding ambition of Norman's -- Via Media on Craig Aderyn, probably the best medium-grade slab pitch in Snowdonia.
• You can have tea at their house.

home_n----------PP_at----------(back to top)

• "Cappuccino, Daz, I can get a nice cup of tea at home.
• As was the case last year Matron of Saddle Mews Nursing Home -- Elaine Elder -- extends a warm welcome to any resident or couple who would otherwise be on their own to partake of Christmas dinner, entertainment and afternoon tea at the Nursing Home.
• Yeah, we have tea -bags at home, but downstairs, the tea machine, you gotta use erm, well, they use loose tea.
• Jesus having tea at the home of a cheating thief!!

table_n----------PP_at----------(back to top)

• So on Tuesday morning she popped into an ordinary-looking terraced house in West London and, over a cup of tea at a kitchen table, sat listening as a group of battered wives confided their problems to her.
• She looked at Ruth drinking a mug of tea at the table.
• She gives us a cup of tea at the kitchen table.

time_n----------PP_at----------(back to top)

• He was sure they did the same things on the appointed day each week, and that Mr Soames probably made tea at the same time every night.
• Bella had been trying to push the walking-frame along and carry the tea at the same time.
• Would she not be allowed to make tea at other times?
• I'll give you er give you an extra cup of tea at supper time.
• to keep to keep the the members of Council from their collective tea at this time of the evening, but my group feels it is necessary to put forward the people of the acute financial situation of this Council, a situation which is deteriorating rapidly, and began to deteriorate in May last year, May 1990.
• There will be two sittings for tea and to avoid chaos we must ensure that everyone goes to tea at their allotted time.

coffee_n +----------andor----------(back to top)

• Do you take sugar in tea or coffee?
• He put them on the counter and asked, " Tea or coffee?"
• And I remember somebody saying that my trumpet and the coffee and tea I'd got as Christmas presents were all stashed in Dod's van.
• The day costs GBP20 which includes a visit to the exhibition, coffee and tea and lectures on various aspects of Allan Ramsay.
• For fifty centimes (fivepence), sixty with a cigarette, guests were offered soup, meat, fruit and tea or coffee.
• Single, Twin, Double and en-suite rooms all with colour TV, telephones, tea and coffee facilities.
• An offer of coffee or tea and a glass of squash for the child are added indicators to those essential elements of marketing -- attention to people and thoughtfulness.
• One in five chose decaffeinated tea and coffee while 14% used artificial sweeteners.
• So are cereals, teas and coffee.
• Tea or coffee ?

biscuit_n +----------andor----------(back to top)

• "I wouldn't only offer tea and biscuits, not even to you."
• For half an hour he took tea and biscuits with them, and discussed the problems of weight reduction through additional use of gallium worked into plutonium.
• Tea and biscuits end the afternoon session giving everyone a chance to rest.
• They chatted to her over tea and biscuits, tidied her house and did the odd spot of shopping.
• Robert jumped to his feet, but she waved him aside and placed the tea and biscuits on a nearby table.
• "I said you couldn't just give them tea and biscuits," he says.
• "Better than digestive biscuits and tea .
• What I should have done was get up and make tea and biscuits, taken them in to her in bed, on a tray with a pretty napkin on it, and one of those roses from outside the front door."
• It was three o'clock, time for her afternoon tea and biscuits, and she often felt a bit irritated around that time.
• "Aren't you and Charles due to go off on holiday soon?" she queried, when tea and biscuits were duly dispensed to Lucy and she could sit down on a wicker-backed chair and sip her own.

toast_n----------andor----------(back to top)

• " Tea and toast, Marcus," said Stephanie, in the voice she had heard herself use to Mrs Owen.
• Toast and tea .
• Toast and tea .
• It's never the endless toast and tea , beans, bread and chips which are the staples of poor people's diets.
• The bell rang and Amiss went in to find a pair of newcomers in search of tea and toast.
• She was warm, deliciously warm, all over, for the first time since leaving Scotland, and when she had arrived, but an hour before, she had come straight up to Aunt Emily's room with no injunctions to change her boots or smooth her hair, and been given a tray of tea and toast cut into little fingers and tiny biscuits flavoured with almond.
• She had toast and tea this morning.
• "While you drink this I'll go downstairs and make tea and toast --"
• She had toast and tea this morning.
• At night, the police served tea and toast.

sandwich_n +----------andor----------(back to top)

• The Duignans were so naturally pale-faced that Mary showed no sign that anything was other than normal and she continued to bring tea and sandwiches to men working on a further turf bank.
• A fucking cheese sandwich and tea with milk."
• From Keld to Wain Wath Force was a quarter-mile of road-walking and, leaving the road below the force, I sat by the bridge on the track to West Stonesdale Farm with my milkless tea and sandwiches.
• Joe brought tea and sandwiches on a tin tray that was decorated with a colourful imprint of Queen Victoria.
• They bought flasks of tea and sandwiches and cake
• Prior to my fifteenth birthday I had asked for train sets and cowboy suits for Xmas and birthdays, and until I was eighteen I spent Saturday afternoons making tea and sandwiches for my Mam and some girls from school as they talked endlessly of "fellas" and clothes and make-up -- subjects never of any interest to me.
• He travelled to Macroom for the match with tea and sandwiches.
• At the hotel in Longford they broke the journey to have tea and sandwiches, and just as the winter light began to fail they were turning in the open gate under the poisonous yew tree.
• Over iced tea and sandwiches, she'd mentioned her useless attempts to gain last-minute admittance at design school.
• Such was the organisers' strong determination to live up to the movie image of English life, they even laid on a scatty vicar wearing a panama hat to serve tea and sandwiches at the finish.

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• Amiss returned to the gallery and gave Mauleverer his tea and cake along with apologies for the delay.
• "I don't remember anything except carrying a tray of tea and cake down a long corridor."
• So, its all round to Gav or Kev's for tea and cake before the match then; -))
• Richmond and Hounslow, who with great ingenuity produced tea and cakes right on time with the aid of one small electric kettle and several "commandeered" thermos flasks!
• She took over the serving of the tea and cakes and Jenna had the opportunity to study her surreptitiously.
• There's a mid-day snack service, while late afternoon tea and cakes seem essential refreshment to salt encrusted dinghy sailors recovering from a hairy sail.
• It was held in the canteen where tea and cakes were served after the ceremony.
• Carolyn came out and served them tea and cake.
• At the Recreation field the Union Jack was unfurled, patriotic songs sung, dancing displays given and tea and cake dispensed to children and the training ship boys..
• Pay for mid-day snacks, afternoon tea and cakes, bar drinks and wine as you go.

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• One of our neighbours rang to say she'd booked the village hall and she and her ladies would be doing scones and tea .
• One of our neighbours rang to say she'd booked the village hall and she and her ladies would be doing scones and tea .
• In a fairly high-class tearoom, to be exact; you know, the kind matrons and aunts go to for afternoon tea and scones.
• It is tea and scones -- and where else can you get a good cup of tea or a decent scone, or real beer, as the hero of one of C. S. Lewis's space-fictions reflects as he returns to earth and finds himself -- miraculously and blissfully -- in England and in a country village.
• She's lonely and she plied me with tea and scones and the rest, and gave me information about her neighbours, whom she seems to like quite a bit.
• Everyday language, the language of tea and scones, when it has been beaten by use into everyday forms, is termed vernacular.
• I stayed at the Cove watching cloud shadows racing across the great limestone cliffs until the sun moved round to the west when it was time to race the old ladies back to the village for the tea and scones of Beck Hall.
• On the second floor it was all the scones and tea bread and currant bread and on the top floor it was all confectionery work and sponge making and what have you and pies.
• Two hundred of them accepted the invitation, ending their visit with tea and scones in the school hall.
• On the second floor it was all the scones and tea bread and currant bread and on the top floor it was all confectionery work and sponge making and what have you and pies.

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• Tackle large-flowered and cluster-flowered roses (hybrid teas and floribundas, to give them their former names).
• Of course there is a Rose Garden with British-raised hybrid teas and floribundas, Sanders White climbing over the arches and Rambling Rector and Goldfinch covering the arbour.
• I asked Roger Pawsey of Cants, Mark Mattock, Gareth Fryer, Ken Grapes of the Royal National Rose Society and Robert Harkness, five of the country's leading rose experts, to name their personal choice of the most highly scented hybrid teas and floribundas.
• As I mentioned in the chapter describing the actual techniques of pressing ( see pp. 36-45 ), it is essential to dismantle red roses, or any roses of the hybrid tea or floribunda varieties, and to press them as individual petals.
• When planted through beds of hybrid tea or floribunda rosea they add interest before the roses come into flower.
• With simple outlines and geometrical spacing, they are essentially formal and best planted with a single type of rose, normally hybrid teas or floribundas, while in smaller gardens patio or miniature varieties make equally effective bedding roses.

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• Full Diet : 6 ozs. meat, 15 ozs. bread, 1 oz. butter, 1 pt. beer, tea & sugar.
• Meals are different, everybody cooks for themselves and keeps their own cupboard with the universal staples -- potatoes, beans, bread, eggs, cornflakes, tea and sugar.
• And er tea and sugar.
• Joe agreed and to satisfy the fat woman who was watching curiously, bought tea and sugar, a jar of Bovril and a tin of cocoa.
• Tea and sugar give clues about the ability of the working class to afford a reasonable diet.
• Most people immediately associate addictions with drugs, alcohol and cigarettes, and if you're health conscious you would probably add coffee, tea and sugar to the list.
• Extra diets (e.g. for "sitters-up"): 6 ozs. bread, 12 oz. cheese or butter, with tea and sugar for the night.
• " Tea and sugar's what you want, lad," the fat woman said, leaning forward eagerly.
• Salt was a necessity, tea and sugar rapidly becoming so.
• Yes to Lochinver yes and that same steamer would be calling in Kinlochbervie and all the villages and this traveller for Hamiltons would be going round beforehand and you would be getting a hundred weight of sugar and tea it would be in a big tea box er er probably er er Ceylon coming from Ceylon but you the whole or you could buy a small quarter.

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• All the people he goes to meet for dinner and tea .
• Nigel couldn't leave his digging but wished us luck and we began to make our plans: go up on the Settle-Carlisle line for a day or two, split up to get round all the caravans quicker, then meet at dinner and tea to compare notes.
• Have your best conversationalists around to tea or dinner and Richard would wipe the floor with them.
• It was uncertain whether she was offering him tea or dinner or nothing, since the time she gave was a quarter to six and she would never have had anyone to drinks.
• He would linger on those delivery trips and stay for dinner or tea or come back via the Talbot, the pub across the road, although he was under age.
• Many working class women did, however, participate in Women's Cooperative Guild meetings and campaigns, and as Jill Liddington and Jill Norris have shown, large numbers of working class women in Lancashire actively supported the suffrage movement, albeit with "one hand tied behind them", as for all these women any cause was something that had to be fitted in "between dinner and tea ".
• A good breakfast, dinner and tea , and here I'm only getting one decent meal a day.
• American plan -- This term is used to describe full board terms to include accommodation, breakfast, luncheon, afternoon tea and dinner.
• "Not dinner and tea ."
• Maybe after a few thousand years of marmot for breakfast, dinner and tea they fancied a change.

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• This took me in a gentle curve round the flanks of Great Coum towards the Barbondale road, Combe House, the track past Tofts, and back to my home for tea and crumpets.
• Crumpets and tea ."
• THERE is an England where bees hum through warm English country gardens, where apple trees lean down low in Linden Lea, and where ladies in tweed skirts eat tea and crumpets in the afternoon.
• So we'd better get back behind our lines, because if the Germans catch us I can't believe they'll invite us to join 'em for tea and crumpet."
• Strangely enough, for a series often stamped as more British than tea and crumpets, Doctor Who 's principal creator was not an Englishman, but a Canadian-born TV entrepreneur named Sydney Newman.
• The drawing room has an open fire and heavy arched doors and on chilly afternoons your hosts will light the fire and offer you complimentary tea and crumpets.

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• Tea shop offers home-cooked lunches and teas .
• Toucans Family Restaurant of the Year ( Egon Ronay ) for lunches and teas , or Inn at the Zoo for pub grub all day.
• The group arranges transport and pushers, works out a suitable route and tries to arrange a pub lunch and tea .
• If the same ruling was applied to each session, e.g. 30 overs between lunch and tea , the regularity of enforcing the law would surely lead to a natural increase in over-rates.
• He took a walk each morning, and went to bed between lunch and tea .
• Local Produce & Home Cooking -- Home-Made Cream Teas & Lunches
• They used the willow pattern china, of which there was a great deal, for breakfast, lunch and tea during the week, although there were also some plain, white, ex-army issue mugs in which Finn and Francie occasionally had cocoa and hot milk late at night.
• J.F. Cooper, who played golf almost every day, was elected Captain, and Major Carr was employed at GBP80 per annum as Secretary, with free lunches and teas .
• One of the biggest operations is at Fettes Row, the Bank's technology centre, where the restaurant is open throughout the day, serving breakfast, lunch and tea .
• If our tea and lunch breaks could be structured on the lines of the ancient Egyptians I am sure that by 10.30am each day there would be a smile on the face of each and every member of staff; and if we could ensure that all our members were treated by their employers in the same way, our membership figures would double instantly.

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• We came to recognize the furtive knocking of these late callers, and tried to alleviate their disappointment by inviting them in for tea and sympathy.
• It offered neither tea nor sympathy.
• The mothers can sit alone with their preoccupations, or share tea and sympathy and cigarettes with other women, or sort out social security, injunctions, divorces, custody struggles and hassles with housing officials for a new home.
• Rugby Union Scotland 32, Romania 0 Tea and sympathy for the poor.
• Miss Wharton had already been driven back to Crowhurst Gardens by a WPC, there to be solaced no doubt with tea and sympathy.
• Tea and sympathy: Russian president Boris Yeltsin stirs a cup of tea as he studies a copy of his speech before last night's television address to the nation
• It was possible, of course, that she wanted to dispense tea and sympathy, but he had his doubts.

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• Licensed tea room offering home-made light lunches, snacks and teas .
• Where they can make cups of tea or snacks for themselves.
• The canteen ran in this form, with a day and night shift throughout the war and after until around 1960, when the night shift was withdrawn through lack of support and a skeleton staff supplied tea and snacks to order to the Works night shift.
• * If you wake during the night (sometimes because you need to empty your bladder) then return to bed and relax as soon as possible, Do not get up for a cup of tea or snack as this will give misleading information to your body clock.
• Coffee, tea and snacks are available throughout the day.
• Licensed tea room offering home-made light lunches, snacks and teas .

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• He pulled his clothes on rather grumpily; he'd not had nearly enough kip, not with all those interruptions on Saturday night, and he'd been late last night too because they'd all been to tea and supper with Grandma Clegg, and not left till ten.
• Or drop in for tea or supper.
• Where, in Persuasion , the younger Musgroves' search for novelty gets them into trouble, other new ventures meet with approval, like Emma's introduction into Hartfield of a large modern circular table, as in Fig. 7b, in place of the smaller portable Pembroke (Fig. 41a) on to which her father's tea and supper have been crowded for the previous forty years.
• I made him some tea and supper while he bathed and changed and unpacked his things in my bedroom.
• A bustling, friendly local which, in addition to its well- stocked bar, provides morning coffees, home-cooked lunches, afternoon teas and suppers -- with special children's menus available.
• "As it's so late, we'd better have supper instead of tea .

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• Belkhuban's father died while they waited at the border to get here... her brother's been left behind... she has nothing, but she shared bread and tea with us.
• As Derek Oddy has commented, "essentially the woman's diet was one of bread and tea , while almost all men consumed a main meal of meat or bacon or fish or potatoes".
• As Derek Oddy has commented, "essentially the woman's diet was one of bread and tea , while almost all men consumed a main meal of meat or bacon or fish or potatoes".
• Oh well okay then, erm, but I've got 'em cereal and sugar and coffee and tea and bread and some cheese slices to make some toasted sandwiches and, so it should be okay, alright, er, I won't be long, alright, bye .
• I have tea and bread."
• On the table lay remains of a frugal breakfast; I noticed nothing but bread and tea and some fruit.
• Belkhuban's father died while they waited at the border to get here... her brother's been left behind... she has nothing, but she shared bread and tea with us.
• "I pay ten pence rent, and the rest just about buys me paraffin for my stove and for my lamp, and a little milk and tea and bread and margarine.
• They used to send us bread and teas down from Chase Farm.
• On the table lay remains of a frugal breakfast; I noticed nothing but bread and tea and some fruit.

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• Certainly the constant parade of young men calling round for a chat and tea , if there was any, or to take the girls out for the evening were friends who happened to be boys.
• A super afternoon which includes open classes -- displays -- tea and chat -- as well as a Bumper Christmas Fayre.
• Certainly the constant parade of young men calling round for a chat and tea , if there was any, or to take the girls out for the evening were friends who happened to be boys.
• The Jimmy Young Show's formula of tea and chat and a few questions on a postcard from Radio 2 listeners was her favourite method of reaching the general public.
• He has lots of "budgie" pals dropping in for cups of tea and chats.

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• For fifty centimes (fivepence), sixty with a cigarette, guests were offered soup, meat, fruit and tea or coffee.
• Left: Fruit-designed hexagonal tin filled with a selection of preserves, shortbread, tea and fruit bonbons, GBP24, Crabtree & Evelyn
• In the export sector, TNCs are still central in bananas, fish, canned fruit and tea ; quite important in vegetable oils, cocoa, coffee and flowers; but no longer central in sugar and beef products.
• In the export sector, TNCs are still central in bananas, fish, canned fruit and tea ; quite important in vegetable oils, cocoa, coffee and flowers; but no longer central in sugar and beef products.
• Mr Gibbs ordered more tea and fruit cake, and Aunt Edie and Dad joined the little party.
• The waitress said she didn't know if the wafers ought to be eaten at the table, but as they were ordering tea and fruit cake perhaps it was all right.
• For fifty centimes (fivepence), sixty with a cigarette, guests were offered soup, meat, fruit and tea or coffee.
• A waitress arrived and he ordered a pot of tea and fruit cake for six.

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• Sales taxes on basic items, including salt, clothing, tea or tobacco, also place a heavy burden on household budgets.
• His Denbigh Terrace home became a shrine of tin signs advertising elixirs, tobaccos and teas .
• This project seeks to assess the social and economic effects of recent smallholder tea and tobacco programmes in the Nyanza Province of western Kenya.
• His Denbigh Terrace home became a shrine of tin signs advertising elixirs, tobaccos and teas .
• Sugar was the third most important export after tobacco and tea , providing about 10 per cent of export earnings.
• Sugar was the third most important export after tobacco and tea , providing about 10 per cent of export earnings.

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• Over time, the traditional crops which fed the local population were squeezed out as rural farmers lost land to the companies interested only in the new crops -- like coffee, cocoa and tea -- for export, the so-called "cash crops".
• We took our own sandwiches for lunch and a teacher would boil a kettle so we could make tea or cocoa for ourselves.
• Over time, the traditional crops which fed the local population were squeezed out as rural farmers lost land to the companies interested only in the new crops -- like coffee, cocoa and tea -- for export, the so-called "cash crops".
• Will you have tea or cocoa...?"

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• He also had 612;d a day allowed to him for lunches at work and demanded that 1$s1d a week be spent on "relishes" for his breakfast and tea -- usually consisting of an egg, a piece of bacon, or fish.
• Shellshock was cocoa, which was served with bread and margarine for breakfast and tea .
• He made a special entry in his journal about ten unemployed men marching from Bootle to London, with seven who were going from London to Leeds; they stayed for one night and were provided with tea and breakfast.
• They ventured under its rays for breakfast and tea and lolled about in it during the afternoons.
• Shellshock was cocoa, which was served with bread and margarine for breakfast and tea .
• He also had 612;d a day allowed to him for lunches at work and demanded that 1$s1d a week be spent on "relishes" for his breakfast and tea -- usually consisting of an egg, a piece of bacon, or fish.
• They ventured under its rays for breakfast and tea and lolled about in it during the afternoons.

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• Sergeant Bramble drank some tea and wondered where Constable Quince had got to.
• When people had drunk their tea they would pass the trays to the end of the row.
• Then she ate her eggs and her toast and drank her tea .
• "Come and drink your tea , lass, it'll be stone cold."
• He drinks the tea brought to us by the koko gravely, and makes exasperated noises.
• I want to drink tea with you at the Samoyovska Hotel in Kiev, and vodka with you in the evening in a place where they used to play gypsy music when I was a student.
• Well, I've drunk my tea now.
• He thanked me politely and returned to his prying, looking in all the drawers, flicking through files even as he was drinking his tea .
• "I'll bring you some hot water, or can you drink tea yet?"
• Drink your tea that's on there.

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• Even when they bent to sip tea , their sharp eyes, like those of wary creatures at a water hole, flickered this way and that above the teacup rims.
• Kelly sipped her tea .
• It must, she thought sipping her tea , have been after one o'clock when he returned from seeing Hilary Robarts home.
• Before we looked at the Fort, we sat in a chai shop, sipping hot tea and reading out loud from Inayat Khan's chronicle.
• Burger sipped his tea and patted his moustache.
• I felt very humbled as I left the conqueror of Everest and the Sherpa's most vocal mouthpiece still sipping his tea .
• Carolyn stood by the table, sipping her new tea and wondering what she could cook.
• He ran his hand up and down Molly's spine as she sat beside him sipping her tea "Have a drop of scrump," he said quietly, and offered her the jar.
• Anthony sipped his tea , and, after a glance at Nicholas, looked away, dropped his voice and spoke rapidly.
• "It was a bit hot," she said, reacting slowly, then recovering as she sipped the mint tea Dan had ordered.

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• Dad poured the tea , Patsy milking the cups.
• Molly turned away to pour tea .
• Patsy, seeing it was no use relying on her mum to preside, poured the tea .
• I smiled at them, heaped more food on to their plates, poured more mint tea or coffee into their cups.
• As he poured the tea , Peter wondered if she'd told James about how she'd made a fool of him; perhaps they had laughed at him together.
• She began to pour the tea and when she had finally finished and sat down felt as if she had run the London Marathon.
• He poured the tea , strong and thick, the way he liked it.
• She poured the tea out.
• She poured tea .
• She pinched bruises on her daughter's inner arm, and had poured hot tea on both daughters.

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• He was sixty-four now, and no doubt tired, but as soon as we had finished tea he said, "We'll go down to the river and you can try for a salmon."
• "Finished your tea , Mrs Carter?
• "Just as soon as I've finished my tea and had a bath."
• Finishing her tea , Maura got up to go.
• she finished her own tea and put down the cup.
• Patrick finished his tea .
• It's alright, I'll finish the tea up.
• She drew her arm away, saying to Rain: "We should finish our tea , don't you think, my dear?"
• Mrs Wilson finished her tea and placed her cup and saucer on the tea tray to her left.
• Have you finished your tea ?

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• He said, making the tea , I said tough!
• and then other, like this morning I woke up about quarter to seven, well I'd been awake a while but I thought I'd came to at quarter to seven I went down and make some tea and having breakfast
• This herb has tiny leaves here, and is furiously strong: I made tea from some herbs I picked, put in a generous sprig of peppermint, and spat out the result in shock.
• As I understand it, the ruling states that if a chick makes tea once a week for the same guy -- she gets half his dough.
• An electric kettle and all the paraphernalia for making tea and coffee stood on a bedside table alongside a biscuit-barrel and bowl of cream roses.
• He went down there only to make tea or hide something in the fridge.
• After the Rosary, Mona and Sheila made tea and they all slipped away early.
• Tetley make tea bags make tea.
• Make some tea .
• So I used to make tea for her.

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• From right from the time office er I used to go into blacksmith shop to mash tea because that's where we used to We used to be able to go and take the cam for the timekeeper and I was in the stores too, and er mash the tea in the forge They put the kettle on the forge you see?
• The other boy will mash tea a dozen times a day -- your house becomes a transport cafe.
• You have, you've mashed the tea !
• And you used to go there and we used to have er anybody mashing the tea what they used to call it.
• And I mashed the tea and made it and a fitting shop was there too.
• Then, looking towards Carrie, she said, "Mash the tea , girl.
• Have you mashed the tea ?
• From right from the time office er I used to go into blacksmith shop to mash tea because that's where we used to We used to be able to go and take the cam for the timekeeper and I was in the stores too, and er mash the tea in the forge They put the kettle on the forge you see?

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• He stirred his tea with the stick of plastic provided.
• There was silence in the kitchen as Jonadab sat stirring his tea .
• Guy stirred his tea for a moment and then raised the cup to his lips, without actually going so far as to drink anything.
• He stirred the tea , his back completely turned towards Jenny.
• "Now what is there," Dorothea asked, stirring her lemon tea with the elegant long spoon, "what is there to prevent your coming?
• I hate having my tea stirred for me, I'd rather stir my own tea .
• She stirred her tea .
• She stirred her tea listlessly.
• She leaned forward, stirring her tea .
• Desmond stirred his tea and ate a biscuit.

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• come on eat your tea
• "Perhaps you don't usually eat tea .
• Young David, eating his tea , gave Hoomey a look in which Hoomey recognised the same despair as he felt himself.
• And on Sunday afternoon I often went to Kidlington, to eat large teas and remember another world.
• "Ruth's eating her tea ," said Emma, "I got those sausages she likes, and tomatoes."
• Now sit down, Edna, and eat your tea .
• he said eat your tea
• Shut up and eat your tea .
• It must be said that Scottish Amicable's own version of "JR" along with his side kick "I always watch Coronation Street while eating my tea " Hunter are totally enthralled with the marketing potential of the whole concept!
• You eat your tea don't you?

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• With the addition of cafe-style furniture, planning and decorative lighting, it could be a pleasant cafe operation serving teas , coffees and snacks, as well as acting as a focus of activity.
• Also urgent, as he served her tea and she sat up in the bed, exposing her small breasts without a thought.
• There would have to be wardens patrolling the area and they might like to serve teas "for wines and spirits by transforming men into woodland bacchanalians, might engender terror in the delicate frames of women, children, and others."
• While Jinny served the tea Mrs Bennet brought a tall clothes maiden from the wash house and draped a sheet over it to give Anne and her mother some privacy.
• Further up the Valley is Trevillet Mill which serves clotted cream teas -- just the thing to prepare you for the two to three mile trek to Tintagel.
• An orchestra was playing and they were served tea .
• Many thanks to the Essex teachers who had undertaken to provide and serve tea at the January meeting.
• Thanks to the two teachers from S.W. London who served tea on the 27th June under considerable difficulties -- a temperamental urn and lack of support from others in their area.
• The second shift arrives at 3pm to serve tea and Christmas cake before making the final preparations for the grand supper at 6pm.
• Guests are served a complimentary afternoon tea and are entitled to 2 hours per week of tennis, ladies are also offered a complimentary facial.

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• Third, there would frequently be discrepancies between the meanings of sentences with a predicate qualifier and "fuller versions" when it is replaced by a clause; for example, consider: (31) the jury found Ernest guilty the jury found Ernest; Ernest was guilty (32) Alastair likes his beef tea strong Alastair likes his beef tea; his beef tea is strong In the latter case, for instance, there may not be any strong beef tea at all; the point of uttering the sentence may be to complain about that very point.
• "Would you like some tea ?
• (Chapter 5) (1) he likes his beef tea strong how does he like his beef tea ? (2) muzak drives them mad *how does muzak drive them?
• "Would you like tea ?"
• You like weak tea don't you Chris ?
• You would like tea ?"
• 4.1 Let us now consider the fourth position for adjectives: predicate qualifying occurrence, seen in: (1) Alastair likes his beef tea strong the jury found Ernest guilty she buys her dresses ready-made
• Dominic! -- Would you like some tea , Sergeant?"
• At one point in episode three Blackeyes actually says; "Funny isn't it, I never used to like tea ."
• oh she likes cold tea

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• Do you want some tea ?
• "I should have asked you if you wanted more tea ," Marriage said, suddenly remorseful.
• Do you want tea ?"
• , you don't want tea with er milk, you want to have lemon in it?
• "If you want tea or coffee, help yourself," Philpott said, waving in the general direction of the dispenser to the right of his desk.
• We didn't have, do you want tea now?
• When you wanted tea you could either have a pot of tea, or a "cinema tea", which was a pot of tea and a plate on which was a sandwich with the crusts cut off, which also represented something, and a cake.
• Who wants tea ?
• Does anybody want any more tea ?
• Sorry, I didn't ask if you wanted any more tea .

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• Looks as though Miss Easterbrook spilt her tea yesterday.
• He reached the bottom first and the teapot, a close second, hit him on the head and smashed, spilling luke-warm tea down his navy-blue shirt.
• You'll spill that tea if you're not careful."
• Willie, whose stomach had been steadily growing tighter, almost spilt his tea over his shorts.
• The practical difficulties of nursing a sick relative can be very great, but Pitkeathley agrees that it is often the emotional upset of having to bath a previously fastidious mother, or pretend your father has spilt his tea when the bed is wet, or simply having to make all the decisions for a once strong parent, which cases the most upset.
• He didn't like the tremors that went with the addiction -- the wavering match as he lit up again and spilling his tea during a work-break was embarrassing.
• She spilt tea on her suit -- and what does she do?
• Mind don't spill the tea shouldn't make it so bloody
• And then you mentioned Thorn House, and my birth on the same day as Donna, and she was so shocked she spilled her tea .

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• It says about scenes of crime officers cos most burglaries happen er in the early afternoon when when mum's gone out to pick up the kids before she comes home to cook the tea
• well we had in the bank, we had calor gas lamps and when the power cut came we had to have the calor gas lamps on, and er, at night you'd get home and you knew what area was going off at what time and you used to have to rush round, I remember once, it was going off about six and it went off early, it went off about five instead, and I'd started cooking the tea , luckily got a gas cooker and this was at Abbott Road, it started
• and she said, she'd got an electric cooker, can I finish cooking me tea on your cooker, huh, said it went off earlier than we thought I mean it wasn't
• She cooks the teas and does the housework and everything.
• cooking the tea , I remember it was fish fingers and chips I was doing and er the dam lights all went out, you were only little and erm Lynsey er, she came round from next door because she started cooking her chips
• Yeah cos it means I can cook your tea for you doesn't it?
• cos I had it running in the kitchen while we were cooking tea last night and Sue came in and goes a real big fart , and goes oh I haven't been able to fart all week, she says !
• "I'll cook your tea when we get in," she said.
• The school was divided into Upper and Lower boys, and the Lower boys in each house fagged for members of the Library: they cooked their tea , ran errands for them, being sent perhaps as far as Windsor to fetch a cake from Fuller's teashop, and they had to come at once when someone in the Library shouted "Boy!", the last arrival being given the job.
• Could've managed to cook her tea , couldn't we?

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• Having eaten it, he brewed some tea and took her a cup.
• The tea was made according to the instruction given by the Tea Council in London -- brewing the tea bag for three minutes then squeezing it.
• Morose; no hint of the chirpy fat man who had brewed more police tea than any three others, in the force, put together.
• Don't just brew the tea just for a moment love, I've got the pudding to put out.
• Women who had been forced, in the name of Victory, to return to work in shops and factories, yet still found time at the end of the day to brew tea and serve hot meat pies, and smile.

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• "Thanks," said Ruth, taking the tea .
• There is, however, plenty of evidence from contemporaries, as well as from historians, that not all husbands were drunken brutes and that many would willingly take a hand at quietening the baby for an hour or two after a long working day, or take tea up to their wives before leaving for work.
• "And take tea ," Miss Withington said in a dry voice.
• So she took some tea and some bread-and-butter while she thought about it.
• Feeling irritable and out of sorts, she took her tea into the workroom, hoping her carvings might be as therapeutic to her as to the people she carved them for.
• Taking tea at the Royal Show was a chatty affair for FWC members.
• "Take this tea off me, then!" said Bella impatiently.
• Natalia Kallinkova had arrived early at the Villa Russe and was taking tea with her acquaintance Princess Tatiana.
• I was allowed with the others to change ashtrays, to deliver maple hazelnut praline mousse and to take tea and coffee to the cups, already laid.
• Should she take tea to her aunt and uncle in bed?

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• The crowd milled around chatting and exchanging tips, hawking and spitting, slurping tea and placing bets.
• Death crunched his cookies and slurped his tea .
• Standing by the sink, slurping his tea and nibbling a slice of fruit cake, Nicky Scott Wilson continued his questions.

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• Stephen and Lily sank into deep leather armchairs in the hotel foyer and Stephen ordered tea , sandwiches and cakes.
• After the doctor left Muriel ordered tea in the drawing room.
• They ordered tea and Lena chose a cake called a "wig", with an apricot in the middle, while Max had parkin, which he was assured was a traditional Yorkshire dish.
• Sit down and I'll get the wafers and then order some tea .
• "I've ordered some tea ," he said, "and then perhaps you can tell me how I can be of service, Mrs Miller."
• I think I'll order English tea ."
• Mr Gibbs ordered more tea and fruit cake, and Aunt Edie and Dad joined the little party.
• It almost seemed for a moment as if he would come over to the table and speak, but then he turned away, looking rather puzzled and began to order his tea .
• Cornelius ordered another tea .
• "Order her some tea , Daddy," Mrs Hobbs said.

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• When the family had departed and he had welcomed the daily cleaning lady, he could retreat upstairs to the flat and enjoy tea and toast with his wife, who by then was ready to face the day.
• There is a pretty half-acre garden where guests can enjoy afternoon tea or a pre-prandial drink.
• And er did you enjoy your tea yesterday with I didn't come because er I thought
• Members of Halstead Rotaract Club enjoy a tea party after their clean-up
• But Geoff, he don't shout out or anything -- he just waits for a bit till they finish their tea and then he shouts out "Enjoy your tea then", and as they look up he pisses a bit more and they go barmy."
• Then you'll have time to enjoy your tea .
• Then he sat down in the great oak chair by the fire and enjoyed his tea .
• I enjoyed my tea and glimpse into a way of life that would have been familiar to JTR.
• Enjoy your tea
• "I remember it had the most extraordinary cohesive effect; we all gathered round the bonfire and enjoyed our tea -- "

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• She swallowed her tea to clear her throat.
• Polly swallowed her tea .
• At the sound of his name, he swallowed his tea , excused himself and, followed at a step behind by Leroy Burns, made his portly way down to the lobby.
• He crushed out his cigarette, swallowed some more tea , sniffed again, blew his nose on a large, paisley patterned handkerchief and lit another cigarette before he answered.
• She swallowed some tea hurriedly, then dropped the cup with a scream as the room was plunged into darkness.
• She swallowed some tea ; it went the wrong way and she coughed desperately.
• He swallowed some tea .

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• Alec managed to slop tea into his saucer.
• Maxim left him cackling and slopping his tea with mirth.
• He slapped both hands palms down on the table, slopping his tea and making them all jump, totally unselfconscious in his misery.
• Jan slopped two tea bags into the bin and scooped sugar into her cup.

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• In anyone's terms, Sri Lanka must certainly be everyone's cup of tea .
• The other time that they used to sit down together was for a cup of tea or coffee at six in the morning, which was when the man got home, and often as not that was when Boy got home too.
• This is a nice cup of tea
• Miranda sipped at her cup of bright orange tea .
• That's to make me a cup of tea when I get home and can try it.
• "Come into the kitchen, and we will have a cup of tea .
• Wo wo , it's less than the price of a cup of tea .
• Had some Weetabix quick and a cup of tea .
• If you feel that you want a cup of tea , or coffee because you enjoy the taste for its own sake, then go ahead and have one.
• She was just trying to think what she could say to bring John back to the subject of the library and its workings when Shirley came in with two cups of tea .

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• Inside, the stove kept me warm while I cooked or whenever I made a mug of tea which was three or four times a night.
• Taff thrust a mug of very hot tea into my hands.
• Paddy handed me a mug of tea and I sat down on a jerry-can.
• After drinking a mug of tea , I packed away the tent and set off, watching the trees float nearer as the pale sun thawed the earth.
• His sergeant, an alert girl whom he addressed as Barbara, served them all with mugs of strong tea before sitting down with her notebook on her lap.
• Those carmen are sittin' outside the wharves fer hours on end at times, an' they like ter come in fer a mug o' tea an' a chat.
• Long before dawn, I was propped on an elbow, with a warming mug of tea and a few verses of Romans.
• Sergeant Morrison put his mug of tea down on the greasy bar and turned.
• While I finish my mug of tea , Jamie loses his pound on the old fashioned pinball table.
• Uncle Matthew cupped his hand around the mug of tea he was holding.

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• She made a pot of tea .
• As she sat over a pot of tea in a quiet cafe she reminded herself that it was really expecting too much to find a flat as quickly as she had landed a job.
• He had come to Lily's dressing room, between the matinee and the evening show, with a pot of tea and two battered mugs.
• Well Mrs Toad is having a sale in her shop + + she has laid out her caish + cash register + + an' a number of pots of tea + + it's gonna be a special sale because + + so she has th' + a sign up saying + prices are slashed + so she hopes lots of customers will be coming along + to visit her + + while she "s waiting for customers + she goes about setting out the rest of + of the shop + + for things in the sale + + an" she brings on + large cans of tin + of tea + + for + she can only carry one at a time + so she walks on with one and puts it on the counter + +
• "May I stay here for a pot of tea ?"
• The sandwiches were ready, and Dad put the kettle on to make a pot of tea .
• But they were kind: the man roused himself at my request to hammer a protruding nail in my shoe that had caused me discomfort, the woman interrupted her knitting to refill my pot of tea and make sure the meal was to my liking.
• "No food," he told her, "just a pot of tea .
• The menu is sharply to the point: three kinds of fish -- haddock, plaice, halibut -- dipped in the secret Ramsden batter and fried in beef dripping, airy and crisp, plus sliced bread and butter and a pot of tea-bag tea .
• After a few minutes in the kitchen, the lady placed before me a plate of home-made scones, a dish of jam and a large pot of tea , all delicious.

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• "I was thinking more in terms of sardine sandwiches and a flask of tea ," said Lydia.
• Fairfax's steward has packed sandwiches for us and an ancient vacuum flask of tea .
• Take some sandwiches, a flask of tea .
• Some people go out armed for hours of waiting and watching with flasks of hot tea and coffee but, with a good pair of binoculars, badgers can be watched in comfort from the roadside.
• "And there's a flask of tea if you need it.
• The only horrible memory of the nineteen fifties that even today makes me wince was that teaspoonful of cod liver oil followed by the concentrated orange juice that was spooned on us before leaving for the school in the morning and off you went with your flask of tea and your sandwiches in your school bag.
• After the parade, along to the park where the speeches boomed from ancient public address systems to an audience more intent on its flasks of tea and sandwiches or, for the men, bottles of beer or whisky.
• They bought flasks of tea and sandwiches and cake
• A little ward-maid appeared at the bedside with an enormous vacuum flask of Georgian tea , refusing to leave until I had downed every drop.
• The jungle birds fell silent in the growing heat, and Jacques Devraux eventually called a halt and distributed flasks of cold tea that had been carried in satchels by the Moi bearers.

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• Letty appeared with a tray of tea and Emily smiled her appreciation.
• GRAN is there, setting a tray with tea things.
• Celia arrived with a tray of tea and placed it on the table.
• She heard Mr and Mrs Hepwood return home, and shortly after that felt guilty when Wendy, a sixteen-year-old who helped Mrs Lumsden, the housekeeper, brought a tray of tea up to her.
• On the other side was a small tray with tea things.
• Emily came in with a tray of tea .
• She was warm, deliciously warm, all over, for the first time since leaving Scotland, and when she had arrived, but an hour before, she had come straight up to Aunt Emily's room with no injunctions to change her boots or smooth her hair, and been given a tray of tea and toast cut into little fingers and tiny biscuits flavoured with almond.
• Charles moved back so that the porter could put down a tray with tea things on it.
• A knock on the door broke the heavy silence and a moment later Nicholson's secretary entered with a tray of tea and coffee, which she distributed before leaving once more.
• Lily brought in a silver tray with tea and sandwiches and one of Mary's marvellous sponge cakes.

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• At this point I take a sip of my disgusting tea .
• Jonna hesitated and took a sip of his tea , regarding his father warily over the rim of the mug.
• But Mama still didn't answer, just poured a mug of tea for Death, then took a sip of her tea .
• He took a sip of tea and set the cup aside.
• Mrs Hendry took a sip of tea , shook her head.
• Coventry made the tea, added four spoonfuls of sugar, stirred clockwise, and then they took sip for sip of scalding tea and cheap whisky.
• Rachel nodded, then took a sip of her tea .
• Finally Mama said, very slowly, with sips of tea in between, "I have read somewhere that you like games."
• He paused and took a sip of tea .
• He tried a sip of tea and winced as the hot liquid scalded his tongue.

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• Whether Rainbow remembers or not, history will never know, because she is too busy choking on a gulp of tea that has suddenly slipped down the wrong way.
• Then there had been another science during which she took periodical gulps of her tea and the sleeping baby stirred and gave small pig-like grunts.
• I began to abandon my Western habits and within minutes crossed the bridge into the Sheikha's world, self-contained, unhurried, conscious of movement, aware of sound, small sips of fragrant coffee as against gulps of hot tea .
• The girl had grinned and taken a gulp of iced tea .
• He was silent for a few moments, then he raised his head, took a couple of gulps of tea and remarked very slowly, Jesus Christ, Piper, you must be bloody bomb happy!
• That much was true, she acknowledged reluctantly, taking a gulp of tea to hide from Lucy's probing eyes.
• With her heart thudding so loudly that she felt sure he must feel it through her ribcage, she took another gulp of tea and waited, knowing he must speak, explain somehow what it was that had suddenly flared between them again.
• Milton took a last bite of teacake and a last gulp of tea and lay back in his chair and closed his eyes.
• Helen took a gulp of tea , and felt herself begin to rally.

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• Carys took the cup and sipped at the tea gratefully.
• She fell silent, sipping at her tea .
• Kelly sipped at her tea .
• Cornelius replaced the envelope and sipped at his tea .
• Carolyn smiled, sipping at her tea and putting it down because it was, in fact, cold.
• The Tollemarche ladies, in bonnets and cartwheel hats, gave teas at which they coyly sipped at China tea flavoured with lemon and mint.
• Helen paused after that sentence and sipped at her herbal tea .
• Carolyn smiled, sipping at her tea and putting it down because it was, in fact, cold.
• "Today Old Delhi is nothing but a dustbin," he said, sipping at his tea .
• Helen sipped at her cold tea and then smiled sadly.

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• Sergeant Davis gave the oldest Arab he could see two pounds of sugar and a big packet of tea .
• White flowers with yellow stamens and a fragrance reminiscent of a freshly opened packet of tea .
• 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.
• Dad said he'd brought home some free packets of tea and a tin of mixed biscuits from the firm.
• But two cases of tinned tomatoes, a sack of rice, a sack of sugar and a large quantity of packets of tea were quickly assembled and delivered within hours of the accident as an open and willing admission of the responsibility of the reckless s and silly youth's family.
• It was so pitifully easy for the customers: the temptation so hard to resist, to pick up a bar or two of chocolate from the counter, a packet of tea from the shelf, even a bag of flour, as my aunt came from behind the counter, passed through to the kitchen, down the steps into the old still-room to draw vinegar from the cask, or paraffin from the tank (its pump rattling up-down, up-down), or across the yard for corn or toppings, or up the back stairs for some item kept on the little landing; so that the shop began to make small profit or none at all.
• She owned the packet of tea bags in the kitchen.
• In the tea room their spirits were at once raised and depressed by the English-looking cakes, pots of jam and packets of tea in the showcases on the counter, but the dim interior, with its Kardomah-like decor, reassured and encouraged them.
• "If you would, dear, then I can weigh out some packets of tea .
• The letter announcing my visit lay unopened on the mat when she opened the door, and an hour later I came away believing that I admired a woman who could, under these circumstances and in some pain, treat me as if I had just stepped round the corner for a packet of tea ten minutes before, and talk to me about this and that, and nothing at all.

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• Ryker passed her once more, glancing at her, cradling a plastic beaker of tea in his hand.
• Bishop drained his beaker of tea .
• Mike filed his copy at quarter past four and went back to his desk and plastic beaker of stewed tea feeling well satisfied.
• As he watched the events occurring between the two moons, he blew on a plastic beaker of fragrant Arcturan tea .
• Beyond the windows, tropical trees and shrubs that bore guava, papaw, mangosteen and pomegranate sprouted in profusion from the moist earth of a walled garden, and heaped bowls of fruits picked from their branches were clustered on the altar, along with tiny dishes of spiced meats, fish, lotus seeds, vegetables and porcelain beakers of tea and rice alcohol.
• Kosi left her plastic beaker of tea steaming gently on the nearest flat surface while she and Lars headed for the centre of the room.

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• She took over the serving of the tea and cakes and Jenna had the opportunity to study her surreptitiously.
• They also said there could be no handshakes and no serving of tea or coffee.
• Guides will assist with the serving of tea or coffee and biscuits.
• Breakfasts are simple; bread cheese, honey or jam, some olives and copious servings of aromatic black tea .
• Quite a garden party atmosphere prevailed, which was emphasised by the serving of tea and ices at small tables.
• Guides will assist with the serving of tea or coffee and biscuits.
• "Tell me about it," she said, leading Gwendolen firmly downstairs and into the garden where in defiance of the threatened rain Mr Blackwell had prepared for the serving of tea .

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• Well have a spoon, mouthful of tea afterwards.
• Kendrick spat out the mouthful of tea he was trying to drink and started choking.
• She took three aspirins from her handbag and swallowed them, grimacing, with the last tepid mouthful of tea .
• He washed down the last of the bread with a mouthful of tea and stood up.
• "Sorry," he said, awkwardly, through a mouthful of Rich Tea .
• Willie choked on a mouthful of tea and Zach slapped his back.
• Lisa stared hard into the fire as despair flooded through her, then, fighting for control, she raised her cup to her lips and forced herself to drink a mouthful of warm tea .

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• And it's not just in this country that memories of a Britain in which everyone wore a vest, ate toasted crumpets for tea and never went out without a hat that these programmes are appreciated.
• "What about some crumpets for tea ?" she says.
• "You shall have crumpets for tea again, don't you worry.
• Could we have crumpets for tea ?"

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• When Wexford got home for his tea Clytemnestra wagged her darning-wool tail at him but she didn't get out of his chair.
• He wants to get home for his party tea doesn't he?
• In the attempt to provide good influences, officers were advised to cultivate personal contacts: to become friends with the boys, to invite them home for tea and to visit their homes; they were to encourage their charges to have confidence in them and never to break faith; above all, they were told, never "miss an opportunity of strengthening your hold over them".
• Why can't you just say: "There's a bloke I've met and I'm bringing him home for tea on Tuesday."
• For her man to come home for his tea
• Next Sunday she was going home for a special birthday tea they were arranging for her.
• "My ma has suggested I ask you home to tea .
• cos we was late home for tea last night weren't we?
• They took turns to walk around inside and sit on the bunks and then George left to go home for tea .
• He returned to his boy and the two of them continued with their play until it was time to go home for tea .

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• Do you take sugar in tea or coffee?
• Topstock stirred a lot of sugar into his tea and resumed.
• or how I liked two sugars in my tea ,
• My dad used to take two sugars, and when I said I was giving up sugar in tea and coffee, he reduced it to one.
• And, again in contrast to being a useful, helpful sensible little girl, was her cosy friendship with the changing series of under-housemaids who laughed so readily at her jokes and gave her lumps of sugar from morning tea trays -- sometimes it was a peppermint.
• in life, tooth-rotting sugar in their tea .
• It's not like putting a massive like spoon, if you think about it, right, if you have a spoonful of sugar in your tea ,
• She avoided Betty's eye and absent-mindedly put too much sugar in her tea .
• NO cigarettes, no alcohol but plenty of sugar in your tea -- that's the recipe for long life recommended by Courtaulds pensioner Tom Wilford.
• CLARE DEVENISH DROPPED one lump of sugar in her tea .

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• I was given a lovely bit of home-made cake for tea and that lifted my spirits tremendously.
• Make us some nice angel cakes for tea ."
• Can I make a cake for tea ?
• Sometimes she managed to sell a story to a magazine, and then there were cakes for tea .
• S.J. Snooke of South Africa, who led his side to defeat against England over his 29th birthday, Feb. 1, 1910, was the first overseas player to be able to offer birthday cake at the tea interval, but the first captain to five himself a victory as a birthday present was the Australian H.L. Collins, whose 36th birthday fell on the fifth day of the seven-day third Test against England in January 1925, which Australia eventually won by 11 runs.
• He shook his head, then took a plate and wandered off to choose cakes for his tea .
• "We can have cakes for tea ."
• A promised treat for when you get home -- a cake for tea , or watching a favourite video -- gives your child something to look forward to at the end of it."
• "Tell your mum to buy cream cakes for tea -- you deserve it!" is the message that should be going home.
• Offers of cakes for tea would also be welcome.

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• We had every other Sunday off, you see, but otherwise we worked and didn't get any extra for it but of course the girls like myself well erm we couldn't lift these huge urns of tea so they had two men keep them on, you see, and er, and we were er perhaps I know one day we didn't finish until five o'clock in the morning
• There was also a mobile canteen, whose function was to supply urns of tea and light snacks, rolls, etc, at snap time, a snap or tea break being allowed by the same wartime act.
• Hooks of meat, barrows of vegetables, trays of pies, urns of tea passed him in every direction.
• As for drinks, there would be silvery twirled urns of tea on tap for the grown-ups and milk or fresh lemonade for the young.

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• KALMYKIA is a semi-autonomous republic of the Russian federation with a population of 320,000, no trees, a universal drink of tea mingled with mutton fat, and a 30-year-old Buddhist president who claims to control 50 companies with a combined turnover of $100m a year.
• If you have a warm drink, try milk, cocoa or a herbal drink such as camomile tea .
• The first drink of tea will be on you.
• Let's sit by the stream and have a drink of tea .
• Lucy leaned further back on the sofa, and took a thoughtful drink of her tea .
• Evelyn asked the cab driver to stop at the small supermarket near her house, bought the bare necessities for a drink of tea and something simple to eat.
• We then engaged in philosophical discourse, while a servant woman, cringing as she served us, brought a dark drink like tea in earthenware bowls which fitted neatly between Mr White Face's tusks.
• He opened pale, hurt eyes when Carrington told him not to take more drink excepting tea , and swore it had not entered his head.
• He pushed the map away, uncorked his canteen, and took a drink of cold tea .
• Sarah passed the child to her and took a deep drink of her tea .

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• She had risen this morning with the intention of going into town and meandering among the shops, perhaps treating herself to a new bonnet, or buying Cissie those pretty boots she had so admired some days ago when the two of them had walked up and down Ainsworth Street, browsing in all the shop-windows; afterwards, Beth might have called in to the delightful tea rooms at the comer of the boulevard.
• When the shop shut she went in for her tea .
• You hurry slowly in the Atlas: at the highest village we were taken in for tea again, by a sister of Ali's.
• Mrs F came in with the tea .
• "They've got a central exchange somewhere up north and they put you on hold till the local mob come in for their tea ."
• Ooh, I'll give you a ring if I'm gonna be in for tea .
• We came to recognize the furtive knocking of these late callers, and tried to alleviate their disappointment by inviting them in for tea and sympathy.
• Yeah, but made my in for a tea .
• He'll be in for his tea directly."
• You said I'll phone you if I'm coming in for tea !

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• It hissed out in the dregs of tea .
• To his surprise, Molly threw away the dregs of tea in her beaker and held it out for him to fill with the frothing liquor.
• Then he noticed the third cup with some dregs of tea remaining in it!

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• and then I used to stop at Jessie's, you see, when I come home with the cart and leave the loaf of, loaf of bread then I used to go back, well, after tea and stop there for weekend, yeah.
• In the end, after the tea had been made and drunk, there seemed nothing for it but to escort them home, leaving Ianthe at her front door and walking the short distance to the vicarage with Penelope.
• After tea was eaten (or drunk) he issued orders.
• In the evenings, after tea was cleared away and washed up and her aunt had tucked Victoria into her cot, Melanie sat in the kitchen and read her own old books.
• After this Boston tea party it will be a wonder if they can do anything else.
• After tea we children would wander off casually into the garage with despising giggles for the grownups planted solidly in their wicker chairs talking boring grown-up talk.
• Carolyn remembered the way her mother would whizz round the room with a can of spray polish and a duster, after tea , and say, "Well I just can't settle if the place isn't tidy."
• "Where were you after the tea break?" he muttered.
• Then, after Earl Grey tea and cucumber sandwiches and no holding back on the cake and scones, the perfectly maintained Bassey chassis repaired to the Ritz's dining room for a photo session.
• After tea she wrapped up some fruit cake for me to take back home.

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• 1
• A fresh brew of tea , especially in the early morning, makes one hell of a difference to your well-being.
• That much was true, she acknowledged reluctantly, taking a gulp of tea to hide from Lucy's probing eyes.
• On it was a perfectly ordinary meal of beefburgers, mashed potato and peas, with a cup of tea and an apple.
• "The telephone never stops and I can hardly spare the time even to make myself a cup of tea .
• 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.
• "I'll make you a cup of tea then," she said, and went back downstairs.
• Gee, there must be enough here to buy say, a cup of tea ... or insulate the loft.
• "Ah -- most unfortunate," he said, standing in the blood-bespattered bathroom of the boarding section and looking at the pool on the floor as if it were a spilt cup of tea .
• Midge had been waiting out in the studio for five hours, fortified by cups of tea brought to her by the friendly police constables.

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• Half an hour later, eased out of her coat and hat, her belongings piled by Stephanie's bed since they wouldn't fit in her room, she said, "You wouldn't have a nice cup o' tea , would you?"
• When I was young she used to come up to my mother's for a cup o' tea ; and I liked talking to the old lady.
• "Oi, Carrie, where's my ovver mug o' tea ?" another docker called out impatiently.
• "Is thoo coming in for a cup o' tea ?" his father invited, but George shook his head.
• "Let's 'ave anuvver mug o' tea .
• "Can Aah 'ave a cup o' tea an' a bun, missus?" came a voice.
• We'd better do as she says or we'll not get a cup o' tea .
• Those carmen are sittin' outside the wharves fer hours on end at times, an' they like ter come in fer a mug o' tea an' a chat.

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• Instead, he had dropped her outside the Half Moon in Portesham, exchanged with her a few platitudes about the working week to come, then driven home to Radipole in time for tea with his mother.
• He said, "Now what I have in mind is a stroll to the end of the valley just to see what goes on there, then back to the car and home for tea , how about that?"
• She's as generous as Robin Hood and all his merry men, she's as kind as Florence Nightingale and then as kind again, right super mum she has x-ray vision, she can see through me, with a voice or rival calm when she called me in for tea ,
• As I sat in the mouth of the cave looking out at the change in the weather, I wondered how a man in the Old Stone Age must have felt, staring out at the rain, knowing that if it didn't let up soon he'd have to go out in it and knock a mammoth on the head for tea .
• "I am longing for tea !"
• And to asked for the cream teas to be retained.
• Aside from his Jamaican paintings, this was the year that Minton produced his London Transport poster as well as the lithograph Apple Orchard, Kent for the second of three series of artists' prints which J. Lyons & Co. commissioned as wall decorations for their tea shops and which were also made available to the public at 15s 9d each.
• Yeah that's what we'll have for tea waffles and ham and can have a bottle of wine, I'm still on my antibiotics
• We crossed the fields below Underwood and made our way back home as cows were brought in to milk and children were brought in from play for their tea .
• "You'll join us for tea , Mr Holbrooke?" she was asking.

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• Instead of calling for Elizabeth immediately after tea , she'd stayed watching television, thinking Elizabeth would wait for her anyhow.
• Want to do after tea .
• I thought of the stack of dirty crocks to tackle after tea , of pictures and furniture that were once polished every week, and now got done when I had the time.
• KAPIL DEV, India's Pride, became the second bowler to take 400 Test wickets when he trapped Australian opener Mark Taylor lbw in the first over after tea at 4.05 on the third day in the final Test of the recent series.
• Three pound notes were usually left discreetly on the table after tea .
• Vanessa and I decided after a delicious cream tea to burn up some energy walking to Golden Cap, which at 618ft is the highest cliff in Southern England.
• The visiting General departs from the Academy after tea .
• Has she not I mean she never watches it after tea if you notice, she'll always go out and play or something.
• "Let's go on to it after tea ."
• Well, Mr Davis can mull over that while he's having his cup of tea, and then we'll come straight to Mr Sedgewick and Mr Donson after tea .

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• Most of them seemed to be going in search of tea and for a moment, she hesitated.
• There's no time for niceties, so we quickly dress and roll up our sleeping bags before the crowd outside invades in search of hot tea and coffee.
• "You two spend a lot of time talking," she remarked one day, materializing beside my chair as Lynn shambled off into the house in search of tea to counter the Dionysiac influence of the southern sun.
• The bell rang and Amiss went in to find a pair of newcomers in search of tea and toast.

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• "The casuals had dinner from 12.45 to 2.0 p.m., worked from 2.0 p.m. to 3.30 p.m., and from 3.30 had a make-and-mend and washed their shirts before tea .
• For example, Jenny wanted to go to the park, but her father said there wasn't time before tea .
• Akram said: "I didn't need to take the new ball before tea because the old ball began to swing.
• The turning point for England was provided by Stewart, in the final over before tea , when the accomplished DeSilva aimed a leg glance at Jarvis.
• Their third win in 42 Tests came 15 minutes before tea on the fourth day and was their first over the Kiwis in 11 Tests since the two countries first met at this level in 1982-83.
• Aunt Harriet would have been cross, normally, for the seat of the swing made green press-marks on her skirt, but the visitor had spoken up for her, taken whatever blame there was and Aunt Harriet had led Eleanor away to wash her hands before tea , telling her how very, very lucky she was, and how she must always be grateful to the Minister and remember this occasion in future years.
• You're not gonna be going before tea are you Bryony?
• "I thought a wee something might be in order before tea .
• "And now I look at you, my lad, a good wash before tea wouldn't come amiss either."
• He was out in the last over before tea after completing his 15th Test century.

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• Thus sheltered, he was making a cup of tea on the petrol stove.
• They either brew up tea on a little gas stove beside their car, or pop into a coffee house for a bun and a flick through The Observer Book of Birds .
• We made a last cup of tea on the camping stove and retired midnight.
• Arthur Shaw, the third man who shared their shelter, was trying to make tea on a primus stove.
• The Colonel's batman brought brandy, and Stephen thought of the men in his platoon and the way they conjured cups of tea on tiny spirit stoves in damp trench walls.

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• "Let us have tea on the lawn again!" shouted the Collector from the window, but no one paid any attention to him.
• My mother instructed her deferential staff to serve us tea on the croquet lawn.
• She smiled to herself, at a vision of new friends and television programmes, of various people having tea on a lawn, sharing parcels and visitors and family photographs, being alone when they chose to be alone.
• Tea on the lawn, spaniels at one's heels, scarlet and dark green... the colours of the rightness of the world and of his place in it!
• Reminiscent of a 1930s tea dress, our flower-patterned summer frock will grace any gathering -- a garden party, a summer wedding or afternoon tea on the lawn.

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• With a tail as fragile as the West Indies', South Africa were uncomfortable at 188 for four at tea on the second day but the durable Hudson and Adrian Kuiper saw them through to the close without further loss against a lacklustre attack.
• You say that after tea on the day of the murder you were with the Count in the salon and then went to the balcony."
• We went everywhere: from garden parties in the grounds of castles, wedding receptions in marquees, hunt balls in assembly rooms, university teas on graduation day, garden fetes in the bishop's palace, to the annual parties of car salesmen, the golden weddings of simple folk -- once I even remember a gypsy funeral -- ladies' night at the masonic lodge, and the British Legion get-together.
• "Like to tea on an ordinary day, or maybe midday dinner on a Saturday or Sunday."
• Opening up shop after Pakistan had followed on 473 behind, he was still behind the counter at tea on the final day, "praying for success" as he steered his side towards 657 for 8 dec, the highest Test total ever made under such circumstances.
• Teas on Q.T. Days
• Outside in the gravel forecourt are rustic benches and tables for visitors to sit beside the mill pond, having cream teas on hot summer days.
• The difference in the bowling attacks then became rather noticeable; by soon after tea on the third day, West Indies had rattled up 411 for 5 when Lloyd declared, with 50 from Fredericks, 135 from Richards, and Greenidge becoming only the second West Indian after Headley to score a century in each innings against England.
• Their third win in 42 Tests came 15 minutes before tea on the fourth day and was their first over the Kiwis in 11 Tests since the two countries first met at this level in 1982-83.
• Crawford travelled to New York by himself and booked into the Algonquin Hotel just before Christmas 1966, tucking into a turkey sandwich and cold tea on the festive day and desperately missing wife Gabrielle and baby Emma, who were staying with Gabrielle's father on his farm in Kent.

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• He had left home a little before eight, having put a cup of tea on the bedside table next to Lyn, walked through the village and climbed the fell.
• She was crying quietly, a cup of milky tea on the table beside her.
• I told him I'd have his tea on the table at half-past four, and practically pushed him out of the house."
• Her mam would be singing with tea on the table.
• When Auntie Jean slammed Uncle Ted's tea on the table at the end of each day -- a meat pie and chips, or a nice bit of rump steak and tartar sauce (he hadn't the nerve yet to go vegetarian) -- she sat opposite him with a stiff drink and demanded facts about Eva and Dad.
• She put their tea on the table.
• Before the Colonel and his wife had helped themselves from the sideboard to cakes and sandwiches, and Fru Moller 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.

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• She came through with a pot of tea on a tray with two mugs, a bottle of milk and a bowl of sugar.
• It was Ben, with two mugs of tea on a tray.
• At three fifteen Mavis brought us in our tea on a tray with a plateful of shortbread biscuits.

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• My mama asks if you would care to come to tea on Saturday afternoon at four o'clock.
• At the hotel Jane Postlethwaite made it worse by inviting them to tea on the following afternoon.
• I go to my nephew's for tea on Saturday afternoons and if the weather's not too bad I get off the bus in Glenfair Road and walk down the Drive.
• Mervyn had visited the flat once for tea on a Sunday afternoon when her mother was still alive, but the occasion had not been very successful.

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• Thanks go to the Inner Kent girls for arranging such a nice tea on the 21st June.
• Thanks go to the Inner Kent girls for arranging such a nice tea on the 21st June.
• Thanks to the two teachers from S.W. London who served tea on the 27th June under considerable difficulties -- a temperamental urn and lack of support from others in their area.

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• Your mother's gone out, but there's tea in the pot."
• Is there any more tea in that pot?
• When the water boiled she made more tea in the silver pot, refilled the milk jug, found clean cups and a plateful of almond biscuits, and carried the tray back to the terrace.
• Is it, is there any more tea in that pot?
• You make a cup of tea for a friend who has called around to express their condolences only to find as you pour it out, that there is no tea in the pot.
• Someone brought mint tea in a silver pot, on a chased, silver tray.
• "Any tea in the pot?"

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• Mark came home one evening to find Edwin Pettigrew, the vet, drinking tea in the kitchen with Sophia.
• Sometimes I would hear conversations about the war when some of the older men in the dale came to chat and have a cup of tea in the kitchen with Uncle Tommy, who had come to take over Low Birk Hatt after Father died.
• "There's tea in the kitchen and a drink if ye'd rather."
• I went to his house and saw his studio and we had tea in his kitchen.
• But each morning, when the entire team warm their hands on steaming mugs of tea in the kitchen at Foulrice Farm, spirits will be lifted by thoughts of a date with destiny on March 18.
• An invitation to tea in the farmhouse kitchen was an almost unbearable delight; bright cinders glowed in the polished black stove; hot, freshly baked scones, butter, cheese, ten minute fresh eggs, milk from the sombre-eyed cows round the door; the scent of peat smoke, soothing all cares.
• By 9.00 the streets would be filled with fumes so he always made the most of his 7.30 deep breathing routine, standing on his doorstep for a full five minutes, taking in great gasps of air, while the tea in the kitchen brewed.
• Riva responds with a recitative of all the pressures on her time, makes a counter-offer of a quick cup of tea in the family kitchen.
• "Oh God," she was muttering, as she made herself tea in the empty kitchen.

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• We sat and drank our tea in silence then Dad stood up and told me to tell Mum, when she returned, that he'd gone to have one last talk to the relief officer.
• Juliet's throat felt dry as she poured the tea in silence.
• He sat down again on the very edge of the chair and they drank the tea in silence.
• Leonora sipped her tea in silence, watching him dispose of a large slice of cheese and several wholewheat biscuits.
• They finished their tea in silence; not because they disliked the suggestion but because it was the patrol leader's idea and his decision.
• Mr Rochester drank his tea in silence.
• Helen poured herself another cup of tea in silence.

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• Tucking a clean pale blue T-shirt into his shorts, he didn't even glance in her direction, but called over his shoulder as he hoisted himself up the ladder, "I'll expect a mug of tea in five minutes."
• I can get your tea in a minute.
• I'll make you a cup of tea in a minute.
• I've put the kettle on and then we'll have another cup of tea in a minute.
• "I'll bring you some tea in a few minutes," he said.
• No she, I'll leave her for a, she's gonna have, have her tea in a minute, she can have a bit after her tea.
• So we we'll have a cup of tea in a minute.
• Well let's have a cup of tea in a minute.
• I'll get you more tea in a minute."
• You're gonna have some tea in a minute when daddy comes.

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• "The chief agent was awoken at six in the morning; he had to ask John Wakeham, you know how good John is at this sort of thing, to quit his room at Topps Hotel (he won't stay in the Grand for all the tea in China and who shall blame him?) and pop down to Kemp Town and arrange bail.
• Which he couldn't do now for all the tea in China.
• I wouldn't have this girl's job -- not for all the tea in China!
• George Rudd was on tour; Michael Lamonte, according to his lady friend, was filming at Pinewood; Berenson had left the business for school-teaching and wasn't about to throw it up, thank you, for all the tea in China, and did Meredith realise it was gone midnight?
• You won't get him stopping here, not for all the tea in China.
• Frank wouldn't get involved in owt like that for all the tea in China.

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• "It's tea in the clubhouse, Miranda," she said, her face long with disapproval.
• And there's sure to be tea in the clubhouse."
• Afterwards the participants had a substantial tea in the clubhouse.

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• they was told not to have a cup of tea in the afternoon, and they had a
• They gave you half-a-crown each for your lunch every day, four old pence for coffee and four old pence for tea in the afternoon.
• There aren't enough biscuits; you can have tea and coffee in the morning but only tea in the afternoon; no-one knows where the switches are or how the equipment works; and so on.
• yeah, and there's just a little tea room and they sell, lunches at dinner time and teas in the afternoon, right opposite Bradgate's Park
• Of course, in England we were used to er especially at the beginning of the war, we had tea in the afternoon of course, and er when we got there it was dinner at night, with you know, meat and vegetables every night, that sort of thing, so it was quite a surprise.
• Then we decorated the school ready for a really splendid children's tea in the afternoon, which was usually followed by a lantern slide show in the evening for the parents, also very enjoyable.

room_n----------PP_in----------(back to top)

• "I'm sorry," I replied, "I forgot to tell you I'm boxing against the Eton Mission tonight and am giving tea in my room to the boy I'm boxing."
• In the end, I decided the most prudent moment in the day would be as I served afternoon tea in the drawing room.
• After the doctor left Muriel ordered tea in the drawing room.
• He arrived just as Hannah was giving Matthew his tea in the breakfast room.
• I wondered if you'd care to come along and have a cup of tea in my room.
• Lunch was provided in a cafeteria and tea in a common room -- an environment which sounds uncomfortably similar to that of more youthful days, and in fact he signed himself in one letter as "Advanced Student".
• Over tea in the front sitting room, overlooking Bedford Square, she filled him in on her background.
• So it was that he escorted Betty there in 1986, taking tea in the Tiffin Room and enjoying a plate of fish and chips.
• "He gave me tea in that Chinese room of his.

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• She cradled a polystyrene cup of tea in her left hand while her right held a cheap filter cigarette between her fore and middle fingers in a gesture of surprising delicacy.
• The old lady, clad in a woolly mutch, sat head bowed, with her cup of tea in her hand.
• Ryker passed her once more, glancing at her, cradling a plastic beaker of tea in his hand.
• In Newcastle she came to a self-service cafeteria and, with a cup of tea in her hand, went to an empty table.
• Her shoulders were hunched up high and her lips were pressed together tight and she sat there gripping her mug of tea in both hands and staring down into it as though searching for a way to answer these not-quite-so-innocent questions.
• It was the duty officer prowling with a cup of tea in his hand.
• Nursing my mug of tea in both hands and feeling the warmth of the rum through my body, the thought crossed my mind as I watched the mortar team sitting on the grass in front of me, "What if the Germans discovered where we were, and got our range?
• Julie cradled the mug of tea in both hands and looked at the wall clock on the other side of the kitchen.
• "Is our guest still asleep?" he asked as he walked through into the kitchen in his towelling robe, the cup of tea in his hand.
• A bandage round his head, a cup of tea in his blunt hands, he looked like the only survivor of some great catastrophe, and Nathan could understand exactly why he'd been able to move India-May to tears and why he'd been given a room on the first floor, one of the large ones, for nothing.

bed_n----------PP_in----------(back to top)

• Ski Scott Dunn (081-767 0202) also aims for high standards in its chalets with treats such as tea in bed every day and a champagne breakfast once a week.
• He was used to contrasts: Mother taking morning tea in bed with an old shawl round her shoulders and her hair pinned up under a boudoir cap, her face sticky with face cream as he kissed her good bye before school; and Mother in full evening dress decked out in false pearls, her eyelashes beaded with mascara, dominating the stage in any play's Last act...
• A cup of tea in bed.
• He'd fetch us all up a cup of tea in bed with a bit of toast."
• In the morning they experienced the delight of tea in bed cruising above the clouds.

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• This would take the chill off the shelter and provide hot water for a cup of tea in the morning.
• On the other hand, Sandy Lyle's caddie Dave Musgrove sometimes gets the other side of the coin from the affable Scot, who occasionally brings his bagman a cup of tea in the morning before they play!
• Staff at Watford Gap say they're not looking for a place in the annals of high cuisine, just to continue making their customers a nice cup of tea in the morning or a nice cup of tea with their tea.
• one after your cup of tea in the morning
• Yes I, after I lost my daughter I had to go into erm, into the factory to make aeroplane pieces at Burnt Mill cos I was so bad with my nerves after I lost her, er just afternoons I had to go and then I was taken ill I couldn't do it, well then after my erm, I got my family off to school I took a part time job in erm one of the factories making tea in the mornings for the office and coffees and that for the office and then in the afternoons I used to do the tea as well, I used to cycle there, I quite enjoyed it until my right hip started coming bad then I had to pack it in, but I was in there, I was there for about four years and I thoroughly enjoyed it you know making tea and that, I didn't have to take it round only collect the money to go round and collect the money, but used to have to put the trolley outside and they used to come and get their tea each one, of which they knew which was their mugs and cups ha, you know, I, I thoroughly enjoyed that job, really great

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• And er he used to be he he mother used to make make some tea for him and warm tea in a bottle in a glass bottle you know.
• he had this tea in his hot water bottle and he
• And er I he used he used he u used to take lunch he wouldn't he wouldn't take tea dinner he used to have like to have tea in a bottle.

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• And Mogg believes that the difficulty of ordering tea in the Waldorf Hotel these days is symptomatic of the decline of an empire, a feeling I'm sure we've all experienced from time to time.
• Players were given a welcoming morning coffee, followed after the match, by high tea in the Belleisle Hotel.
• Admiral Lord Nelson is said to have stopped for tea in the local Anchor Hotel on his way to join the British Fleet at Trafalgar.

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• Top left: Sue and Reg Bass enjoy a cup of tea in the garden
• Fifty people (the other thirty had disengaged themselves at the first mention of Dickens) were now taking tea in the gardens of the Albion Hotel under the shelter of parasols.
• The garden was beautifully kept by the gardener, and sometimes on summer Sunday afternoons we had tea in the garden with Auntie Maude and Auntie Ivy.

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• "It was so sunny, and we swam, and we had a picnic, and then we had tea in that little village shop on the way home.
• I drank mint tea in the carpet shops (and found Stefan Grappelli, Bryan Ferry and Ben Kingsley listed in one shop's order book).
• The culmination of the afternoon was -- at Fen's suggestion -- tea in a quaint picture-book shop whose bowed windows with their original bottle-glass panes overlooked a busy thoroughfare.

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• You either win a tea towel or a bag.
• What tea towel?
• tea towels?
• Is that all you've got on the line, one tea towel?
• Once the packet is opened, keep the pastry leaves covered with a damp tea towel to prevent them from drying out.
• The huge blackleaded grate occupied the chimney wall, the oven hanging open to reveal a dozing blue-grey Persian curled on a tea towel.
• It is ideal for home furnishing applications -- in the kitchen, for example, to attach a tea towel to a unit or tiled surface or, elsewhere in the home, for attaching fabric furnishings, such as a pelmet or valance, to a rigid base.
• Go over there and get the tea towel off the floor
• She washed a Cos lettuce, leaf by leaf, then patted each of them carefully with a tea towel.
• Odder, though, that the killer, assuming there is a killer, didn't use it to dry himself rather than the smaller tea towel."

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• Facilities for morning coffee and afternoon teas are very limited in the Gorge and opportunities exist for the Valley Hotel to service individual tourists and coach tours.
• Afternoon tea served daily 2 May-26 June, 22 Aug-25 Sep.
• However, a couple of houses serve afternoon teas in the Green Quarter.
• Complimentary afternoon tea .
• Men can have one dark suit and wear it all day and no one will even notice, but women are expected to have the right clothes for lunch and afternoon tea and working in and then have some stunning outfit for evening.
• Today, Lucy had not had to bother with afternoon tea for her father; he had said that he was going from evensong straight to the hospital, to see Edmund Jason.
• The Heritage Centre, a registered charity, plays host to small prearranged groups of visitors from June until September, and is happy to provide both a short guided tour of the island and excellent afternoon teas for the refreshment of the weary traveller in Sunk Island's village hall close by.
• Monday was always busy with everybody stocking up after the weekend and by the time he arrived back at Number 112 for his afternoon tea he was exhausted.
• Complimentary afternoon tea served to all Citalia guests staying 9 May-12 June and 12-26 Sep.
• * providing coffee and afternoon tea facilities -- perhaps in the grounds and in the mews conservatory area.

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• While you're waiting for the kettle to boil erm, get a cup from the cupboard and a tea bag from the tea jar, put tea bag in the the cup and then wait for the kettle to boil and o , once the kettle has boiled you put your hot water into the cup and le , and let the tea brew for a little while And then, after you let it brew you can either add milk to it or, do not add milk to it.
• Them tea bags.
• Inside that stout little tent was a very efficient camping-gas burner, complete with kettle, billycan, matches, tea bags and powdered milk.
• Cos what he does, he puts a tea bag in a cup pours about that much water on takes the tea bag out and tops it right up with water so he can see bottom of cup.
• What's the difference between a tea bag and Arsenal?
• whether we needed to go back for anything to go in the fridge or freezer If I got this page sort of full by the end of the week, people there were picking out their, they were getting tea bags and coffee and biscuits, you know for two pages full, I've got one page full and of course with that I could get erm, packet of the Ferrera Roche
• Items like tea bags and cigarettes are boxed, then wrapped in cellophane.
• A tea bag can stay longer in the cup.
• One tea bag does me and Paul.
• If I give you fifty pounds, I've got sixty five pounds twelve pence, if I give you fifty pounds, then that keeps fifteen pounds and twelve pence to buy tea bags and .

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• Using er use the tea caddy on that.
• The tea caddy is on the kitchen table.
• While Family Choice warmed up I went into the kitchen and found the tea caddy and put the kettle on the gas.
• The tea caddy was empty too.
• Rain reassured her, the woman turned back to her tea caddy.
• tea caddy
• Coventry put the kettle on the stove, put the teapot and the tea caddy and sugar on the table, and then took off his own perfectly dry shoes, and set them against the stove.
• The main trade in jewellery was supplemented by almost equally huge sales of other items anything from a tea caddy spoon and cigarette holder to a jet Bible and model of Whitby Abbey.
• He searched the kitchen and found the household cleaner standing by the tea caddy, a sprinkling of white powder beside it on the formica.
• It comprises a bottle of sparkling white wine, a Taylors of Harrogate Darjeeling tea caddy, continental plain chocolate and Gentleman's Relish.

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• McLeish looked past the boy to see Catherine Crane, colour returned, seated on an upright chair, drinking tea .
• The pleasure of drinking from a good quality glass is like drinking tea from fine china.
• A typical Peto story tells how when dispatched by The Observer to photograph a major rail disaster, he came back with a picture of an exhausted rescue worker drinking tea , man's ability to fight disaster and overcome it having inspired this warm-hearted humanist photographer.
• Four of the eight servants in the Lundy household were seated around the scrubbed kitchen table, drinking tea , finishing their breakfast.
• I thought to myself, "You got good religion in you, and this is better than drinking tea ."
• Five Tibetan men and a boy of about ten, dressed in worn jackets and trousers, are seated around a fire, drinking tea , talking and laughing.
• At the first village, Amsiwi, we were soon sprawled on cushions under the carved guest-room ceiling in the chief's house, drinking tea and eating hot, wholemeal pancakes and butter.
• Like coffee, legend surrounds the beginning of tea drinking and it is also reputed to have kept awake an ancient priest throughout a long vigil, stimulating him with its caffeine.
• Adam sat in his parents' house, drinking tea .
• And at 6.15 Miss Danziger entered the drawing-room, where at least eighteen of the guests were gathered drinking tea and eating from a selection of Danish pastries and pies, and talking with unusual excitement.

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• Well this I think's Well it smells better than camomile tea .
• I've started drinking camomile tea on occasion
• Inspector Fouchard took advantage of the pause, having now ascertained from Rose that Auguste's qualification for his presence ran deeper than camomile tea .
• thinking it's camomile tea !
• "I will obtain some camomile tea .
• Camomile tea okay, I don't know how many is in your packet?
• "I shall just have a cup of camomile tea ."
• If you have a warm drink, try milk, cocoa or a herbal drink such as camomile tea .
• Thus Lady Westbourne remained untended on the ground, forced to recover by herself, until solicitously helped to her feet by Auguste, offering camomile tea and smelling salts.
• Or camomile tea yes .

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• So er he sat there tea break
• "And you were with this angel -- er -- Mrs Tucker from the tea break on?"
• We have no official tea break but sometimes one of us goes out and gets tea for the others.
• These are perhaps best illustrated by the workmen who, for example, seem to be incapable of doing anything without 20-minute tea breaks, management which seems uninterested in providing proper supervision, or boards which seem more interested in finding ways of jacking up their remuneration package irrespective of performance, or complaining to Government about interest rates, rather than wondering why they are not making some of the flood of goods which our continental competitors find it profitable to sell to the UK.
• I'd just been talking to the guard, twelve hour shifts, sixty hours a week and he can't even have any time off for tea breaks or meal breaks.
• Look, we're a bit quiet at the moment, so why don't you take an extra ten minutes on your tea break and go and see her?
• "Did you see the dagger lying on its salver during the tea break yesterday?"
• I ain't got a lot, that's for certain In there I have got I had enough for tea break.
• Match referee Javed Burki, of Pakistan, went on New Zealand television during the tea break to calm matters, saying the incident between Hughes and Greatbatch was "a bit of fun".
• Charlie decided to run through all the soloists and all the acts in the morning and early afternoon and leave the chorus till mid-afternoon, either side of the tea break.

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• There was keen interest in lot 63 (est. $12-18,000) an early A.E.Warner, Baltimore tea tray, one of the handsomest early American examples of the form from any city, with applied grapevine border and flat-chased interior, eventually bought by the Maryland Historical Society for $28,000 (GBP20,000).
• Dorothy waved at the tea tray.
• She got up briskly as she spoke to confront Mrs Hassock and the tea tray and shield Lucy from those penetrating eyes.
• Not for us the tourist sledge of the one- or two-day package visitor, a short contraption, more tea tray than means of transport.
• There was only David, sitting at ease in one of the basket chairs, in front of the tea tray.
• The Manageress there erm I was there and she, I, after I'd been there eighteen months, she had a heart attack and the girl took up her tea tray, one of the girls took up her, because she wasn't on duty till about just quarter to six to do the money.
• He was sitting behind the tea tray, with its vast load of silver, reading Horse and Hound -- Twomey came in to take the tea tray away, and with it the smaller table which held the dish of scones, the plate of sandwiches (Gentleman's Relish), the fruit cake and the plain sponge.
• IN Montepulciano's Museo Civico, a painted St Agnes proffers a model of her city with the proprietorial air of a waitress with a tea tray.
• Mrs Wilson was particularly glad that the maid, Elsie, chose this moment to arrive with the tea tray.
• Bryan Gould, Labour's trade and industry spokesman, yesterday posed for photographers with a Co-op credit card the size of a tea tray: "There are middle class Labour supporters... no, it won't contribute to the credit boom... change your credit card and help Labour win."

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• Restoration of the 16th-century house has taken two years, most attention going to the creation of women's lavatories and space for tea urns.
• Eyes turned again to the tea urn.
• It could just as well have been the 20th birthday of the Eden Gardens tea urn, and as far as the Indian government is concerned, there is nothing like an international cricket tournament for persuading the electorate that, with polling day just around the corner, Rajiv is the boy to vote for.
• We were told to take food and water on a train going down to Mandalay and I remember taking the Mothers' Union tea urn!
• There's none for the tea urns or the washing up or..." her voice dropped dramatically.
• Restoration of the 16th-century house has taken two years, most attention going to the creation of women's lavatories and space for tea urns.
• on the afternoon, but I wi when I'm doing that I will check up about the tea urn and
• How long does our usual tea urn take to boil?
• Opposite, alongside a loudly dripping tap, Sister Annunciata topped up the already bubbling tea urn, switched on, Vi suspected, without the priest's permission.
• Luckily they had had experience at holiday times and during sick leave of meeting this kind of emergency and to the rest of the staff the tea trolleys seemed to be running perfectly smoothly, except that they never knew which face would be behind the tea urn.

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• For St Helens, Tea Ropati, the New Zealand centre who was invalided home from the recent tour after only two matches, could make his debut.
• St Helens have signed Tea Ropati, the New Zealand centre, who was invalided home with a knee injury early in the Kiwis' English tour, writes Edward Kennedy.
• St Helens have signed Tea Ropati, the New Zealand centre, who was invalided home with a knee injury early in the Kiwis' English tour.
• TEA ROPATI grabbed his first drop goal in three seasons to sneak St Helens into this morning's second-round draw of the Regal Trophy.
• But it was fellow New Zealander Tea Ropati who led Saints to victory.
• "But I was delighted by the way Tea Ropati took over complete control and directed the play in midfield."
• Hunte's second touchdown in the 23rd minute followed a defence-splitting run from full-back by David Lyon and, nine minutes later, loose forward Chris Joynt took advantage of a searing midfield break by stand-off Tea Ropati and a clever pass from hooker Bernard Dwyer to add to weary Wigan's misery.

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• It has the following members: Norodom Sihanouk (President), Hun Sen (SOC), Gen. Tea Banh (SOC), Hor Nam Hong (SOC), Maj.-Gen.
• PHNOM PENH -- The Cambodian Defence Minister, Tea Banh, said yesterday that government troops repulsed an offensive by mostly non-communist resistance forces last week near Sisophon, AFP reports.
• Dec. 19 China agrees that UN should play a role in resolving Cambodian problem Hun Sen Chairman; Foreign Affairs Bou Thang Vice-Chairman Say Phouthang Vice-Chairman; Chairman of Central Control Commission Chea Soth Vice-Chairman Kong Samol Vice-Chairman; Minister in charge of Cabinet of Council of Ministers Say Chhum Vice-Chairman; Agriculture Gen. Tea Banh Vice-Chairman; National Defence Pung Peng Cheng Minister Assistant to Chairman of Council of Ministers Kong Korm State Affairs Inspectorate Koy Buntha Social Affairs and War Invalids Chea Chanto Planning Ho Hon Industry Sin Song Interior Chhay Than Finance Pen Navuth Education Ung Phan Communications, Transport and Posts Chheng Phon Information, Press and Culture Taing Sarim Trade Ouk Bun Chhoeun Justice Yith Kim Seng Health Khun Chhy Minister attached to Council Ministers Hor Nam Hong Minister Assistant in charge of monitoring Foreign and Judicial Affairs Cha Rieng Chairman of National Bank Cheam Yiep Director-General of General Directorate for Tourism Sim Ka Chairman of State Control Committee Sam Sarit Director of General Department for Rubber Plantations
• Other principal ministers: Bou Thang (Vice-Chair); Chea Soth (Vice-Chair); Say Chhum (Vice-Chair); Say Phouthang (Vice-Chair; Chair of Central Control Commission); Kong Samol (Vice-Chair; Minister in charge of the Cabinet of the Council of Ministers); Gen. Tea Banh (Vice-Chair; National Defence); Hor Nam Hong (Foreign Affairs); Gen. Sin Song (Interior); Chhay Than (Finance).
• Hun Sen (SOC) Gen. Tea Banh (SOC) Gen. Sin Song (SOC) Kong Samol (SOC) Hor Nam Hong (SOC) Chem Snguon (SOC) Khieu Samphan (Khmers Rouges) Son Sen (Khmers Rouges) Son Sann (KPNLF) Ieng Muli (KPNLF) Norodom Ranaridh (Sihanoukist) Chau Sen Kosal (Sihanoukist)

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• The completion of the quiet area will be celebrated by a British Gas tea party for the pupils on 30 April.
• In 1773, the Boston Tea Party took place.
• Now in the banqueting hall another pleasant tea party was taking place, even though tea itself was in such short supply that there was really only hot water to drink.
• (Right) Tea party at Bohorok feeding station.
• Tea parties are wonderful fun -- especially if you hold them in the garden on a hot day.
• But although he was so sensitive to conversation that he picked up the slightest nuance, his combination of " tea party cosiness and cold intellectuality" was "if not exactly intimidating, at least restraining".
• Asked to organise a tea party to raise funds for the Royal British Legion women's section's national birthday scheme, Liphook branch hit on the idea of turning theirs into a Mad Hatter's tea party.
• The tea party enabled Regina and Monica to meet their charges each day and monitor their progress.
• For the finest and freshest in home made snacks and mouth watering baked goods visit the Boston Tea Party and enjoy a well earned break.
• Asked to organise a tea party to raise funds for the Royal British Legion women's section's national birthday scheme, Liphook branch hit on the idea of turning theirs into a Mad Hatter's tea party.

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• The Boston Tea Party
• Before Bill Clinton played sax on Arsenio Hall , before Big Arnie came out for George Bush, before the movie-made presidency of Ronald Reagan, there was the Boston Tea Party: American politics has always been more surreal than any satire.
• Meola accused Arsenal striker Ian Wright of "talking trash" and claimed England players had been calling him fat in exchanges as bitter as the Boston Tea Party.
• Thomas and Elizabeth lost their first child five months after the marriage; the next, Nancy or Nany, was buried at Catherine Hill on 16 December 1773, the day of the Boston Tea Party.
• The Boston Tea Party: Sydney Biddle Barrows advises on all sorts of etiquette
• The Crown's failure to present such an argument may not have been unconnected with the tension existing between the King and the north American colonies consequent upon the recent Boston Tea Party.
• Singing carols around the Christmas tree and exploring the cobbled streets takes you back to the era of the Boston Tea Party.
• The East India Company later gained a monopoly to deal with the North Americans, but resentment caused the colonists to rebel against the traders and at the Boston Tea Party, the shipment of tea was thrown into the harbour by the rebels.
• In 1773, the Boston Tea Party took place.
• For the finest and freshest in home made snacks and mouth watering baked goods visit the Boston Tea Party and enjoy a well earned break.

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• Chivvying the staff of the Villa Russe into the tea room with refreshments, Auguste brought up the rear.
• A working mill is incorporated into the development and also within the site are a water wheel, factory trails, a riverside picnic area, a craft gallery, craft workshops and a charming tea room.
• The Manageress Royal Tea Rooms Petergate York
• We can get one at the kiosk by the tea rooms."
• In the tea room their spirits were at once raised and depressed by the English-looking cakes, pots of jam and packets of tea in the showcases on the counter, but the dim interior, with its Kardomah-like decor, reassured and encouraged them.
• Sion Hill Hall open to the public, a beautiful Edwardian Country House with superb collection of antiques, also tea room, Kirby Wiske, Thirsk (off A167), 2-5pm.
• Right: Tin with fruit cake, GBP10.40; caddy with spiced tea, GBP2.48; from Betty's Cafe Tea Rooms
• Left: A former tea room and billiard hall, the 100-year-old house is now very much a home
• She had risen this morning with the intention of going into town and meandering among the shops, perhaps treating herself to a new bonnet, or buying Cissie those pretty boots she had so admired some days ago when the two of them had walked up and down Ainsworth Street, browsing in all the shop-windows; afterwards, Beth might have called in to the delightful tea rooms at the comer of the boulevard.
• Goats, Jacob sheep, tea room.

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• On the left, near the end of the gangway, was a blue suitcase resting on top of a tea chest.
• I feel a bit silly about it, looking back -- I didn't even notice that the aviary had been finished, or that there was a tea chest mounted inside with a large "front door" sawn out of it.
• They were down there, behind the shrubbery, where first Livingstone had stood and then the tea chests, youths, out to cause mischief, their viciousness as unspecific as their obscenities were spontaneous.
• Normally, little jumble could be expected from the few cottages on the headland, but Alex Mair, anxious to associate the power station with the community, had put up a notice on the staff board and the two tea chests were usually fairly full by the time the October sale came round.
• "In the course of unpacking tea chests, we found a tatty little thin cardboard box which John was going to throw away.
• She saw neither loiterers with evil intent nor lovers come to pledge themselves; she saw a couple of tea chests which, upon closer inspection, proved to contain those items that she had listed to Max as being the reason for her visit to Winchester Road.
• They carried on doggedly, hoping her son would arrive soon, and Eric almost dropped a tea chest full of crockery for reaching in his pocket when he thought he felt it move, and kept on reaching in there for something that would make the day worthwhile.
• In the same tea chest he came across a cube-shaped case made of orange plastic.
• So we use cardboard boxes and even if you're moving crockery, you put half or a third of what you'd put in a tea chest goes into er a a a cardboard box.
• A walk around the PAS warehouses is like a trip back in time, with all the parts stored floor to ceiling in tea chests -- quite apart from all the aircraft spares this must be one of the largest gatherings of tea chests in the world!

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• (Chapter 5) (1) he likes his beef tea strong how does he like his beef tea ? (2) muzak drives them mad *how does muzak drive them?
• She would send over beef tea and other delicacies to try and cheer them up.
• 4.1 Let us now consider the fourth position for adjectives: predicate qualifying occurrence, seen in: (1) Alastair likes his beef tea strong the jury found Ernest guilty she buys her dresses ready-made
• (Chapter 5) (1) he likes his beef tea strong how does he like his beef tea? (2) muzak drives them mad *how does muzak drive them?
• Third, there would frequently be discrepancies between the meanings of sentences with a predicate qualifier and "fuller versions" when it is replaced by a clause; for example, consider: (31) the jury found Ernest guilty the jury found Ernest; Ernest was guilty (32) Alastair likes his beef tea strong Alastair likes his beef tea; his beef tea is strong In the latter case, for instance, there may not be any strong beef tea at all; the point of uttering the sentence may be to complain about that very point.
• I'll ask you to prepare beef tea and arrowroot, Mrs Lang.
• In addition to the beef tea and arrowroot, as much as he will take, we'll give him half an ounce of brandy every two hours, and twenty drops of laudanum every four."
• Third, there would frequently be discrepancies between the meanings of sentences with a predicate qualifier and "fuller versions" when it is replaced by a clause; for example, consider: (31) the jury found Ernest guilty the jury found Ernest; Ernest was guilty (32) Alastair likes his beef tea strong Alastair likes his beef tea ; his beef tea is strong In the latter case, for instance, there may not be any strong beef tea at all; the point of uttering the sentence may be to complain about that very point.
• Third, there would frequently be discrepancies between the meanings of sentences with a predicate qualifier and "fuller versions" when it is replaced by a clause; for example, consider: (31) the jury found Ernest guilty the jury found Ernest; Ernest was guilty (32) Alastair likes his beef tea strong Alastair likes his beef tea; his beef tea is strong In the latter case, for instance, there may not be any strong beef tea at all; the point of uttering the sentence may be to complain about that very point.
• Third, there would frequently be discrepancies between the meanings of sentences with a predicate qualifier and "fuller versions" when it is replaced by a clause; for example, consider: (31) the jury found Ernest guilty the jury found Ernest; Ernest was guilty (32) Alastair likes his beef tea strong Alastair likes his beef tea; his beef tea is strong In the latter case, for instance, there may not be any strong beef tea at all; the point of uttering the sentence may be to complain about that very point.

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• I'm gooin' ter put the kettle on an mek a cuppa tea ."
• Subject: Mak us a cuppa tea , Mam, we beat Leeds
• "Now put the kettle on Polly an' we'll 'ave a nice cuppa tea then Katie an' me'll get cracking."
• Now, your sardine, mate, your sardine is more my cuppa tea , your sardine is a fellow wot can be got for eighteen pee, about three and sixpence ha'penny, in the East Road.
• "Well, let's have another cuppa tea , luvvie, and forget all about it... it's not worth it.
• Brian, have a cuppa tea .
• I went for a cuppa tea , didn't I?"
• "Like a cuppa tea ?"

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• Afternoon Tea Dance with Festival Extras for Senior Citizen's groups and lunch clubs.
• Tea dance, Leisure Centre, Spennymoor, 1.30-3.30pm.
• Events organised include a race night on Saturday, a tea dance, a film night and special concerts.
• Tea dance, Leisure Centre, Spennymoor, 1.30pm.
• Weekly Saturday Tea Dance, Park View Community Association, Church Chare, 1.30-4pm.
• Tea dance, Arts Centre, Darlington, 1.30-4pm.
• Tea dances with cakes; it all sounds rather dull in 1991, but to us then the cakes were manna from heaven and the dances were the greatest of fun.
• There were Feliks and Dorothy, still handsome at 75 and 70, who met at a tea dance in 1946 and married 40 years later.
• As he entered a hall in Chard, disrupting a tea dance, he was greeted with the cry: "Clear off."
• One thirty until three thirty a friendly ballroom and sequence tea dance with refreshments is on and the I C C on Mansfield Road in Nottingham the International Community Centre and that's half one till half three.

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• "Mint tea is not really the best thing for you," her husband said.
• I drank mint tea in the carpet shops (and found Stefan Grappelli, Bryan Ferry and Ben Kingsley listed in one shop's order book).
• I smiled at them, heaped more food on to their plates, poured more mint tea or coffee into their cups.
• She planted the fruit trees and bushes she had always wanted, made her own bread, and experimented with such things as parsley jelly and mint tea , all to her heart's content.
• Someone brought mint tea in a silver pot, on a chased, silver tray.
• I made myself a pot of mint tea and sat silently at the living-room table.
• More mint tea was brought.
• In this study, some of the Afro-Caribbean informants draw on well-established home remedies such as mint tea or "bayrum" (a poultice) to deal with minor illnesses such as colds or headaches (surface rules); but when faced with persistent or unusual problems may refer to others or make up new or more specific recipes (basic rules).
• And she had kept up the pretence in the air-conditioned hotel and on the pool terrace, drinking mint tea to get the feel of the place, though she couldn't stand the stuff really, and never knew what to do with the sprigs of mint.
• (Elinor did not drink either tea or coffee and only the occasional glass of mint tea .

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• I was not aware that we had a tea trolley dating from 1930.
• Alida turned away, to the tea trolley, impeccably laid out with the Worcester china, for she intended to give the impression of perfect comfort, and a good background, of genteel upbringing and attention to detail.
• Recovering patients rapidly acquire anticipatory responses to the noise of the tea trolley, and some patients may show excessive anxiety reactions to the sight of a hypodermic syringe.
• Luckily they had had experience at holiday times and during sick leave of meeting this kind of emergency and to the rest of the staff the tea trolleys seemed to be running perfectly smoothly, except that they never knew which face would be behind the tea urn.
• "And yet he wore a collar and tie," put in Kathleen, tipping Madeira cake crumbs deftly from her plate into the little blue tin always brought in for that purpose with the tea trolley.
• Then a tea trolley clattered in the distance, and the tension broke.
• Being in neither carpet nor the RAF left me out of the conversation, until the tea trolley came round.
• Indeed, the sound of the tea trolley created a Pavlovian reaction among the 30 men.
• "Movable "libraries" are ideal, for instance, old tea trolleys which hold books, slides, pictures, a hand viewer, box of assignment cards etc.
• It was hell: The stroke victim forced to sit in a tea trolley.

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• 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 don'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 don'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.
• I showered and then decided to lie in a hot bath for a few minutes with a cup of tea at my elbow and the latest Kingsley Amis in front of my face.
• And to Carole's annoyance, Hyacinth Scragg had not turned up, despite the reminder she had received over a cup of tea at the conference centre.
• Tea at the next Q.T. Day will be provided by Outer Surrey.
• I wondered who was going to tea at the pavillon .
• She said it was very kind of you to make her a cake, and she's asked you to tea at her house!"
• and after your cup of tea at five o'clock.
• Some papers later reported that he had stopped for tea at the Ritz but this unlikely frivolity was angrily and officially denied.
• Many thanks to the Essex teachers who had undertaken to provide and serve tea at the January meeting.
• Did you have a good tea at Manda's?

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• Rune once took tea with a mandarin in Peking and he comments in his diary:
• Every evening I had tea with the friend or two with whom I had arranged to mess for the "half", as a term was known at Eton.
• The day we met her diet was soup at dinner time, pineapple and cottage cheese for tea with a packet of crisps and a cup of tea.
• Why should a future leader of the Liberal Party throw up that possibility in order to be a curate, whose work in popular mythology (and sometimes in reality) consists in having cups of tea with elderly women?
• All her family, like they all just drink tea with a very little drop of milk in it, and she always drank it with a little drop of milk, and then, she decided not to drink it with milk at all.
• And we went up there and we had just we'd, we took the labour rooms and er of course we had got a cup of tea with them you know?
• Last night the old campaigner Benn was at an end of election meeting at a local community hall; tonight there is a post-count tea with sandwiches.
• I insisted that I should pay her a rent of five shillings a week and also asked her, somewhat tentatively, if she felt able to come and have tea with my mother in Romford.
• That evening we were invited to have tea with him.
• The same afternoon he took tea with Louise de Chavigny in the pale grey and rose pink salon of her house in the Faubourg St-Germain.

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• The young nurse, whose feet ached something cruel and who was desperate to snatch a cup of tea before somebody else asked her to do something for them, looked them up and down.
• "What have you learned, Lili?" asked my mother, at last sitting down with a cup of tea before her.
• "You rest there a while, Mrs Miller," the girl said with unusual boldness, "and I'll make you a fresh brew of tea before I start on the drawing room."
• When Charlotte had finished, emphasizing how vital it was to find the document the kidnappers wanted, Natasha poured them both more tea before she made any remark.
• She shifted the rather heavy, though small, paper bag which she was carrying, and said: "I guess I'd better get some tea before all the cookies go.
• Time for a cup of tea before they're due in down the road.
• Maybe get a cup of tea before we come home."
• She gave me an extra pillow, kept me supplied with boiling bottles, brought me Vichy, and my meals on a little round table, actually produced a bottle of alcool camphre & frictioned me & gave me some lime flower tea before I went to sleep.
• "The least I can do is offer you some tea before you set off," she said.
• The house was quiet, no sign of Matey's bustling presence, and when she walked into the kitchen, taking off her shabby black hat, pulling the hat pins out of her abundant hair, she found Dr Neil, sitting at the kitchen table, his tea before him, quite alone.

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• The label's "Shostakovich Film Festival" () is music from The Gadfly, Five Days and Five Nights, Hamlet -- and, more dubiously, the Tahiti Trot (which Shostakovich simply orchestrated for a wager after hearing a gramophone record of it -- there's no evidence he ever saw the son, better known as Tea for Two , performed on film or intended that his own version of it should be), and the First Piano Concerto (some of the themes of which were recycled for a Soviet cartoon in 1933!).
• She left a cup of tea for him on his bedside table and went into the kitchen to prepare the evening meal.
• I thought you'd been putting something in my tea for years.
• When he arrived with his parents for the interview the headmaster took him to a field where a few golf holes were laid out, handed him a wedge and a bucket of balls, and told Jack to hit some shots at one of the greens while he organised some tea for his parents.
• Anyway, I got up, and went about my chores, feeding the cats and brewing tea for the rest of the still-slumbering inhabitants of my humble home in order to get them up and out to school and work, and I was thinking to myself as the kettle boiled that here was the start of yet another ordinary damned day, when the post clanked and slithered through the letter box.
• He's called Mr. Barlow, and there's a nice lady called Ena who makes tea for all of us, and a couple of lads behind the butcher's counter who fancy themselves, but don't worry, I'd never even look at someone else when I have you.
• In George Henry Lee's restaurant a middle-aged lady wearing purple and accompanied by a string quartet sang " Tea for Two", circling her hands in the air as though pushing away cobwebs.
• 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!
• CCG staff rose to the challenge and baked hundreds of scones and cream teas for the Weir Paper Products fete held in Falkirk.
• I have to pick tea for money to buy food.

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• The alarm clock overhead read 5.28, time for a quick cup of tea before his new shift began.
• But I had, I had a go I had a good cup of tea before.
• "I tell you what, pet, let's pop into the Buffet and get a nice cup of tea before the train goes.
• Some misunderstanding arises about the overlap during the afternoon period, because within this period one group of staff will have to take lunch when the afternoon shift arrive on duty and the others to take tea before the early shift goes off duty.
• They sat for some time talking and drinking tea before the music began.
• Again he paused; then lifting the cup, he almost gulped at the tea before saying, No, they are both... dead."
• I was fascinated by her story and waited impatiently while she refreshed herself with tea before continuing.
• Patrick mercifully was still asleep, giving Fon enough time to drink a cup of tea before getting him up and boiling the water for his bath.
• His sergeant, an alert girl whom he addressed as Barbara, served them all with mugs of strong tea before sitting down with her notebook on her lap.
• "You'll forgive me if I have a cup of tea before reading the register, Nurses?"

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• Admiral Lord Nelson is said to have stopped for tea in the local Anchor Hotel on his way to join the British Fleet at Trafalgar.
• I wondered if you'd care to come along and have a cup of tea in my room.
• There aren't enough biscuits; you can have tea and coffee in the morning but only tea in the afternoon; no-one knows where the switches are or how the equipment works; and so on.
• Over tea in the front sitting room, overlooking Bedford Square, she filled him in on her background.
• Retired Sainsbury employees came together in grand style in March and April to reminisce and share afternoon tea in the sumptuous surroundings of the Royal Lancaster Hotel.
• He had made tea in worse places.
• Dorothea drank Russian tea in a tall glass, with one of the silver holders.
• And there's sure to be tea in the clubhouse."
• "Oh God," she was muttering, as she made herself tea in the empty kitchen.
• George Rudd was on tour; Michael Lamonte, according to his lady friend, was filming at Pinewood; Berenson had left the business for school-teaching and wasn't about to throw it up, thank you, for all the tea in China, and did Meredith realise it was gone midnight?

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• My mother instructed her deferential staff to serve us tea on the croquet lawn.
• It is introducing a new "premium" tea on Britain's high speed trains -- and hoping it will bring an end to all the jokes about stewed tea.
• The Colonel's batman brought brandy, and Stephen thought of the men in his platoon and the way they conjured cups of tea on tiny spirit stoves in damp trench walls.
• He would rise early, make himself tea on his landlady's stove, work for three hours with a pause for breakfast, then go out to walk in Regent's Park, unless it was raining.
• I was just telling our Daniel, I was right put off by what passes for tea on t'railways these days: I couldn't stomach no more.
• The difference in the bowling attacks then became rather noticeable; by soon after tea on the third day, West Indies had rattled up 411 for 5 when Lloyd declared, with 50 from Fredericks, 135 from Richards, and Greenidge becoming only the second West Indian after Headley to score a century in each innings against England.
• Somewhere between the first drink on Christmas Eve (at around 5pm) and the first cup of tea on Christmas morning (at around 5am), the fear evaporates, leaving in its place a wonderful feeling of contentment.
• Each time I went to Bristol, she took me out for tea on her own, or with a girlfriend.
• I'm telling you and I'm telling you, not him, he's having now't say or so be tea on him, you want to stand up for yourself you, it's time you opened your mouth to our Michael, don't be afraid of him
• and she said, she'd got an electric cooker, can I finish cooking me tea on your cooker, huh, said it went off earlier than we thought I mean it wasn't

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• She measured tea into the Whitsun treat pot, one, two, three, and half-filled it, judging the proportions by rule of thumb.
• "Thrills and spills," Ella said, pouring tea into a mug for him.
• "Not yet; let's get a sup of tea into the lad and ask him a few questions.
• Coventry smiled non-committally and spooned more tea into the dregs in the pot.
• Claudia's companion opened her picnic bag, poured tea into a plastic mug, munched genteelly on a ham sandwich.
• I dashed back in to make Dad his sandwiches and pour his tea into his billy can.
• Sybil placed a small table at her elbow and poured tea into dainty china cups.
• Pouring the tea into two thick white mugs, she gave one to her friend.
• Sweetheart poured tea into her cup from a pretty tea-pot, adding milk from a tiny jug and sugar-cubes gripped in small silver tongs.
• He thrust a mug of tea into my hands, with the remark, "Get that down you, Piper, and keep your head down."

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• With that they were packed off for a cup of tea from the mobile canteen.
• at Hawes, tea from the can.
• we'll drink tea from a flask
• Although we conduct our interview in an air-conditioned hole at Paul Merton's spiritual home, Channel 4, drinking tea from unwieldy tureens, it is the ever-dependable Beeb who have thus far harnessed his slippery talents most deftly.
• They sat inside, drinking tea from enormous enamel mugs.
• He also bought a teaspoonful of tea from one of the artillery women for ten pounds, to be paid after the siege was over or, in case of death, by his executors to certain of her relations; to lend substance to this rather nebulous arrangement which at first only seemed to excite the suspicion of the woman selling the tea, Fleury had drawn up an elaborate letter which began impressively: "To Whomsoever May Find This Missive, I, George Fleury, Being Then Deceased," and which seemed to Fleury to give a certain legal solemnity to the transaction.
• Deborah's water heater was one of those over-enthusiastic ones that heat the water so effectively that you could virtually make tea from the hot tap.
• A battle promptly ensued between Auguste and the Russian footmen, Auguste unfortunately being unaware of the Russian custom whereby men drank tea from glasses, the women from cups, and by the time the fracas had been resolved, the match seemed virtually won in Washington's competent hands.
• Louise poured tea from a silver pot, into cups of Sevres porcelain.
• And to complement your oriental meal, serve fragrant China tea from a lovely matching 1 litre/2 pint teapot.

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• There's another cup of tea in, er, Margaret if you want a cup.
• Getting teas in and stuff
• Not, Albert er God what was the other one from here that used to make the tea in ?
• you don't put enough tea in, milk in my tea first thing in the morning is that right?
• Dad brought the pot of tea in and sat down.
• of sealed that you could go in and have a cup of tea in.
• She fell over herself in a spasm of new gratitude, only to give him an earful because he wouldn't bring his own tea in and talk to her.
• No I've brought, bringing other cups of tea in.
• Lyn brought tea in and then supper on two trays.
• Well you gonna, oh I've gotta bring a cup of tea in for you, have I now?

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• Come over later and have a cup of tea, said Lucy, each word measured, sounded cold and reasonable, just a cup of tea in front of the fire and no heavies from either of us.
• With his second cup of tea in front of him, he sat down to look at the newspaper.
• Lydia put a mug of tea in front of her master and then took herself off to the dairy, where she and Martha unashamedly listened at the door.
• It's not good enough," Lizzie, said, plonking a cup of tea in front of Sara.

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• We seem to live on tea and more tea until the next cup of tea comes round don't we?
• I had orders not to take in tea until half past ten."
• Can I conclude on Harrogate then and we adjourn for tea until three thirty.
• When we had finished laughing we sat round the embers drinking tea until the first green light of dawn showed in the eastern sky.
• The social worker helped her examine more closely the cognitive "roadblock" to action, and she conceded that she was jumping to conclusions that they would be annoyed with her if she postponed tea until 7 p.m.
• However, whilst agreeing they might not be annoyed with her, she thought she would feel guilty if she did not start tea until 6 p.m.
• He never ate between breakfast and sunset, but could not last without tea until the meal he clearly still found extraordinary, eaten by wax candlelight in the dining-room at an hour when all his shepherds were asleep.

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• Tackle large-flowered and cluster-flowered roses (hybrid teas and floribundas, to give them their former names).
• All hybrid teas and the majority of the floribunda roses have to be dismantled petal by petal if you want a really good end result, and then re-assembled for use in the pressed flower picture.
• A classic hybrid tea with rich, dark velvety crimson flowers.
• They're divided into hybrid teas , which normally have one large bloom at the end of each stem and are often quite highly scented, and floribundas, which have a group of smaller blooms and usually less scent.
• As I mentioned in the chapter describing the actual techniques of pressing ( see pp. 36-45 ), it is essential to dismantle red roses, or any roses of the hybrid tea or floribunda varieties, and to press them as individual petals.
• Most often identified with the widely known and popular Hybrid Tea , the bush form includes many different kinds of so-called "Old" roses as well as "Moderns".
• June: Disbudding your hybrid tea roses will enable the best blooms to develop
• This is a rather apt description of a bloom that is flat, (compared to the high central point of the Hybrid Tea , for example) and in which the many petals seem to curl and divide into four sections or quarters.
• However, what I feel will be of interest to many rose gardeners, bearing in mind the many questions asked, is an explanation of terms like Hybrid Tea , Floribunda, Polyantha, and the rest.
• Disbud hybrid tea roses for the best blooms and give them a foliar feed if it is necessary.