Sentence examples for laid for tea from inspiring English sources

In the foreground, a table has been laid for tea, while in the background a man is chopping wood.

Mrs Miniver Jan Struther (Virago, £7.99) She would never be a wobbler, Mrs M, in her Chelsea house with the table laid for tea (crumpets, of course).

At this stage the onlookers don't know that Hyde and Jekyll are one and the same man, but the table laid for tea is clearly a veneer beneath which the degeneration at the heart of social order lurks.

Biala's most successful works may be her still lifes depicting pieces of fruit, vases of flowers or tables laid for tea, as well as views of the artist's small kitchen and the courtyard outside her window.

All beautiful lawns are alike: immaculately even green grass stretching smoothly away; effortless mowing lines, neatly edged; the sound of birdsong and a table laid for afternoon tea.

There was no groundwork laid for it.

Tired of being corrected for misusing "lay" for "lie" and "laid" for "lay"?

Lay, not laid, for the past tense of lie.

Bill Maher laid into the tea party movement and the American people for what he described as their disconnect from the reality of the nation's finances.

Patch's view of the Arno languished behind a table laid out with tea cups.

He said: "We laid on teas, coffees, sandwiches and some sausage rolls.