Example sentences of "for tea " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paul ‘ popped round ’ for tea more frequently than was decent for a visiting lecturer , and he seemed to get on very well with everyone . |
| 2 | Everything of mine at that stage was still packed , but I had set aside a separate box for tea and coffee things so tea was easy to arrange . |
| 3 | ‘ Time for tea everybody , ’ said one of the nurses brightly . |
| 4 | When he stopped his work for tea , the prying landlady being out at the shops , he would try to arrange to meet her , either in the house or at the British Museum if she were going near the West End that day . |
| 5 | There was one occasion when he went into a café and asked for tea and then while he waited he suddenly saw a solution to a theological argument which he had with Leslie Owen the warden , and his waving of hands was so convulsive that the café refused to serve him with the tea . |
| 6 | The police considered this and took him down to the station — for tea and sticky buns . |
| 7 | ‘ Maybe we should go to one of the hotels for tea or icecream ? ’ he asked fretfully , as if somehow sensing her withdrawal . |
| 8 | I made an excuse and settled for tea and muesli . |
| 9 | Thank God for dome tents with two bays : you collect snow from one end for tea , pass it through the middle-man , and then deposit it at the other end . |
| 10 | ‘ What about some crumpets for tea ? ’ she says . |
| 11 | I know because I called around early and took my sister out for tea . |
| 12 | Children also tend to want honey or Marmite sandwiches for tea and , when they want tea , they really want it . |
| 13 | ‘ From now on , it 's healthy eating , ’ she announces to her underwhelmed offspring and insists that they and their father go jogging and serves up watercress soup for tea . |
| 14 | This is a recess in the hall which is set apart for tea and music and is characterized by a certain daintiness of treatment which bears a feminine relation to the masculine ruggedness of the hall … at the opposite end is the ‘ refectory' ’ … . |
| 15 | Until now , Fenway Court has always retained the feeling of a private home , enhanced by such domestic touches as little vases of flowers , evening concerts and even a table laid out as if for tea ; it never seemed wholly incredible that Mrs Gardner herself would suddenly stroll through the door . |
| 16 | He had n't said anything about going home for tea . |
| 17 | She rarely even stopped for tea . |
| 18 | Dot peered in through the tiny curtained windows of the dolls ' house and saw quiet furnished rooms , the playroom , kitchen , parlour , waiting to be lived in , a table set for tea , beds to be slept in , armchairs to be sat on . |
| 19 | Gloria came down , bright and freshly lipsticked , in time for tea . |
| 20 | Marrow Jam for Tea |
| 21 | There was a party atmosphere on the FARMERS WEEKLY stand at the Royal Show on Tuesday afternoon as Farm Women 's Club members from Cornwall to Northumbria , from Carmarthen to Lincolnshire gathered for tea . |
| 22 | The caterers worked at full stretch and their kettle just managed to keep pace with the demand for tea . |
| 23 | ‘ Omelettes for tea , ’ she smiled . |
| 24 | She was to travel the twenty miles by train , into the city , and they were to meet , in the restaurant of Marshall and Snelgrove , to have coffee and talk , to shop together for this and that , a new spring suit , some curtain material , a lampshade and the Ceylon tea nobody would stock in the village , and back for lunch , and then for tea , with aching feet and happy conversation , until their trains home . |
| 25 | I wondered how many of them glanced down as they processed in their finery into the castle for tea with the Queen . |
| 26 | You 're back in time for tea ! ’ |
| 27 | Some papers later reported that he had stopped for tea at the Ritz but this unlikely frivolity was angrily and officially denied . |
| 28 | In Airdrie open-air market , Mr Smith jostled among ample women shopping for cheap shell-suits and something for tea , cannily thickening his rather clipped Edinburgh accent before plunging into the adoring throng . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |