Example sentences of "[adj] o'clock the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 A little after eight o'clock the sun touches the altar rock , the signal for the burial to begin .
2 Around eight o'clock the sound of distant brass bands can again be heard wafting in through the bedroom windows .
3 At eleven o'clock the cook and the housekeeper went to bed .
4 One o'clock in Piazza dei Partigiani after a stressful morning at work was very different from eleven o'clock the night before after making love , but Ellen was bubbling with such enthusiasm that he had n't the heart to voice his reservations .
5 At 7 o'clock the office bearers , a number of the brethren and their lady friends sat down to a sumptuous repast in a granary tastefully decorated with evergreen and flags and after a long toast list the tables were removed for dancing .
6 By six o'clock the water had n't arrived and Haverford , looking at their despondent faces , said , ‘ It 's like a death in the family . ’
7 By six o'clock the ground will be covered with cageots , the chip vegetable and fruit baskets , making a sea of soft colours " and shadowy shapes in the dawn light .
8 The one hundred share index was 17.4 points higher at one stage , but finished the day well below it 's best level , 4.2 points higher at 2152.2 , at 4 o'clock the volume was mediocre at 321.7 million shares .
9 The ladies in the parade were transferred to closed carriages and about 3 o'clock the procession moved off .
10 But by ten o'clock the mist had gone , burned off by the sun which shone from a clear blue sky .
11 By ten o'clock the town was only half-lit and many of the smaller back streets not at all .
12 Shortly before five o'clock the sepoy cavalry made an attack near the Cutcherry but fortunately the men had not yet left their positions at the rampart .
13 Nine o'clock the kitchen clock said .
14 Had he been in Whitechapel , Charlie would have been happy to run up and down the market from five in the morning to seven at night and still box a few rounds at the club , drink a couple of pints of beer and carry out the same routine the next day without a second thought , but when at nine o'clock the sergeant-major gave them a ten-minute break for cocoa he collapsed on to the verge exhausted .
15 But Eileen did n't sleep , and by nine o'clock the pain had become stronger .
16 And at precisely twelve o'clock the fan belt broke .
17 At twelve o'clock the class was dismissed , and there followed a rush for the toilets and ablutions .
18 By twelve o'clock the meeting of senior scientists in the Director 's office to discuss the furniture and equipment for the new Laboratory was over , and Howarth rang for his secretary to clear the conference table .
19 It was twelve o'clock the funeral was a usually at .
20 At one o'clock the judge left the court for an hour .
21 At four o'clock the door opened , and a very strange servant came in .
22 THE Eight Bells seemed to be one of those pubs that do most of their trade in the late evenings , for at seven o'clock the saloon bar was deserted .
23 At seven o'clock the dinner was nearly ready and Della was waiting .
24 At Sokolnitz the first shots were fired about seven o'clock the bombardment continuing for almost an hour .
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