Sentence examples for put a kettle from inspiring English sources

We fire up the wood-burning stove, put a kettle on, steam them.

How hard is it to put a kettle and a cup in a room?

"A few years later, when she came on again, Kylie wouldn't put a kettle on her head in case it ruined her hairstyle," adds Neal.

We shook hands, he went home to his ramshackle walk-up apartment in the West Village, put a kettle on the stove to make some tea, then collapsed and died of an aortic aneurysm.

She is funny about the incompetence of the "advanced" employers: "Lytton Strachey's sisters couldn't boil an egg and had to wait on the servants' day off for one of their younger relatives to come in and light the stove before they could put a kettle on".

Serves 6 250ml wholemilk 250g mascarpone 6 large egg yolks 6 tbsp runny honey 3 tbsp plain flour 2 tsp vanilla extract 4 tbsp demerara sugar 250g forest fruits, fresh or frozen 1 Preheat the oven to 150C/300F/gas mark 2. Put a kettle on to boil. 2 Gently heat the milk until it's scalding hot.

Or the husband might notice a little thing like Lucy not gathering eggs or not putting a kettle on for supper, things Sinkler should have warned her to do.

You could match it with a similar scene in Jean-Pierre Melville's 1969 "Army of Shadows," which was released here last year; both directors stoke up the pressure as calmly as someone putting a kettle on to boil.

"We were in Berlin a couple of weeks ago, and we put a plastic kettle on the stove, and the plastic went on fire and produced some smoke," he said.

Nana put on a kettle to boil some water for an herbal tea called Sweet Dreams.

Every day, more stories pour out: of people who are so depressed, or weak from chemotherapy, that they can hardly put on a kettle, being tested, pronounced "fit" and frog-marched into work.