Example sentences of "[adv] about quarter [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Finally about quarter to eight he shoots through to the other room and finds Dick and Joy Hardy there , they were supposed to be picking Gwen up and bringing her round . |
2 | oh but they really get up my nose ! just wan na do is phone me up , you know I I sa oh had a row with , do n't say anything like about quarter to four time and I said to her , well I 'll be quite honest I said er there 's sixty pound a week or seventy pound a week I get more than you I said I have never heard a load of moaning pratts in all my life ! |
3 | They must send them home at erm they must of sent them home about quarter to three , because they got home at quarter past |
4 | Erm , got back here about quarter past nine , which was great , cos it meant I could watch One Foot in the Grave . |
5 | Well about quarter to ten I reckon |
6 | And then about quarter of a mile off the grating they drop their kedge their anchor and they came in then and then there were two ropes er thrown to them then . |
7 | ‘ It was then about quarter past three . |