Example sentences of "a cup of [noun] at " in BNC.

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1 Before you visit the Church of St Clement and the Clementinum , you might like to stop for a cup of coffee at the House of the Golden Snake .
2 There was good enough reason , especially with the leg injury , to rest for a couple of days , but , with Joan in mind , my plan was to collect my mail , buy food , take on water , have a cup of coffee at the hotel , and be off towards Reggane .
3 People often have a cup of coffee at this time ’ , that would not be an idea either because it does n't contain a sufficiently explicit course of action .
4 After a morning 's sightseeing stop for a coffee , but beware the cafés in St Mark 's Square … a cup of coffee at Florian 's or Quadri 's costs around £3 , but prices improve the further away you get from St Mark 's .
5 Thulani Davis describes policemen setting dogs on black women and children campaigning for the right to buy a cup of coffee at the local Woolworths , and educated black men being asked to abandon French courses at university .
6 These cheese buns have a rich filling and a crisp crust , which are just right with a cup of coffee at breakfast or a glass of wine later in the day .
7 And that , of course , she decided ruefully over a cup of coffee at the kitchen breakfast-bar , would have played right into his hands , seeming to justify his opinion of her .
8 The two were crossing to get a cup of coffee at the Little Chef after finishing shifts at Broadgreen Hospital in Liverpool .
9 ‘ I went to the hospitality lounge for a cup of tea at about seven , and found Masha there before me . ’
10 just as cliché 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 ( had n't someone called it that ? ) seemed destined for suburban predictability .
11 ‘ I find light meals best — a good lunch , then a cup of tea at teatime and then a light supper .
12 Just as important is the talk over a cup of tea at the end when members share common problems .
13 For ten months after his father 's death he had unquestioningly taken the same train home , cooked a meal to be eaten at 7.30 ( as he had always done when his parents were alive ) , watched television , made a cup of tea at 9.30 ( as he had done when his parents were alive ) , and gone to bed .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 Alter a milky drink she settled and slept until woken by the nurses for a cup of tea at 6.30 am .
17 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 . "
18 Then they used to have their which was a cup of tea at ten in the morning and then having their tea at four .
19 She gives us a cup of tea at the kitchen table .
20 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 .
21 Did you have a cup of tea at that point ? ’
22 He makes a cup of tea at night and that 's his effort .
23 Well , it 's , it 's simple that if I got up at half past six , and took him up a cup of tea at quarter too seven , and when he was around at seven o'clock , I was grilling bacon and I was frying eggs , and I hope , I do n't know whether perhaps it 's my cold , but , I , I just used to feel terribly unwell after he 'd gone , for about two hours and my legs were so wobbly , I was sitting down on the sofa , I may go back yet to cooking him breakfast if I feel like it , but , the , I mean if I can say to these chaps that , there are times when I do n't feel like doing things , well , I reckon Dave that they are so glad to be in that house with the central heating , with the twenty four hour er , er a day water , and the comfort , there not going to argue .
24 chap brings her a cup of tea at nine o'clock .
25 He had a cup of tea at Carrie 's today just you know , checking the tape and making sure that people 's names are on it in the correct order and what did you do ?
26 And then you get a cup of tea at ten .
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