11.   On election night, both parties set out spreads of beer, wine and finger sandwiches as they waited for the result.

12.   Our servers brought us tea, coffee, finger sandwiches and pastries.

13.   Served on polished silver with white linen, the dainty finger sandwiches and petit fours could be washed down with a dozen different kinds of tea in proper pots.

14.   Stains silks, ruins finger sandwiches at picnics.

15.   Teatime is a charming standard practice featuring hot tea with milk and sugar, biscuits, scones with cream and jam, cakes, gingerbread and perhaps finger sandwiches.

16.   The ladies titter into their teacups and nibble finger sandwiches with the crusts neatly removed.

17.   The meal includes tea and scones served at the table, and a buffet of finger sandwiches, fruit and tarts.

18.   The small plates that accompanied a tea service were for sweets or finger sandwiches.

19.   You would think such a group would have started flinging cucumber finger sandwiches at each other five minutes into their tea yesterday.

20.   I COULD have spent the afternoon just eating finger sandwiches and sipping Lady Grey at the English Afternoon Tea at the Regent Kuala Lumpur last week.