Sentence examples for fetching coffee for from inspiring English sources

His aunt wasn't home, so he hung around the stage door and wound up fetching coffee for that evening's acts — a simple errand that over time led to a larger career.

— Emily Weinstein Esquire: A bartender at Musso and Frank in Hollywood talks about the excellence of the Sidecar cocktail, how customers drank in the 1950s, and fetching coffee for James Dean.

Then he joined the Army, where, friends said, his social life was defined by the need to conceal his sexuality under "don't ask, don't tell" and he wasted brainpower fetching coffee for officers.

But if they had not enjoyed Imcine's help when starting out, they would have been shooting TV commercials or fetching coffee for Hollywood directors instead of making their first pictures.

In the 1950s, during a brief stint as a runner for a cerebral palsy telethon hosted by Dennis James, he would seek out candids of people like Debbie Reynolds, Yul Brynner and Sammy Davis Jr. while fetching coffee for Mr. James.

DeWyze worked in a pit where euro-dollar futures are swapped, collecting trading cards and fetching coffee for his boss.

He moved blocking sleds during practice, washed laundry, fetched coffee for the coaches, cleaned the locker room.

And which one of them was the inspiration for the character of the obsequious intern who offered to fetch coffee for Glass while he was busy conjuring evidence to cover his tracks?

The adage that the Devil is in the details applies to Stuart and Nicole's marriage, whose success or failure depends on things as trivial as one partner's dropping everything to fetch coffee for the other at a stressful moment.

He goes off to fetch coffee for a visitor, although one leg is in a cast and he is walking with a cane -- the family dog, Abby, a hefty English bull terrier, knocked him off balance and he broke two bones in his foot.

"We're entering a time when it's a lot more about cost, when in the last ten years it was a lot more about capabilities," says Hudson, 60, a tough grandmother of three who began her career as an engineer in the 1970s, when women were still expected to fetch coffee for their male colleagues.