Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] quarter to " in BNC.

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1 Then Arthur Peeble 's dinner time started at one o'clock till quarter to two .
2 They have they have extended from six o'clock till quarter to seven and then
3 Went to ladies just before quarter to five to find they 've been removed .
4 and then I can take you home afterwards , see if it finishes at three I wo n't be home till quarter to four at the earliest
5 Promptly at quarter to six there was a knock on the outside door .
6 Er I was home at quarter to three .
7 Well I can get here for quarter to six if I leave work early but I do n't want to put you out .
8 Er , that 's alright , let's behave ourselves , I says what about us , we 've been here since quarter to ten waiting for you to come .
9 I will be here at quarter to six .
10 I 'll be here at quarter to six
11 I do n't know , she said she was leaving here at quarter to five
12 Well look I 'll be home here at quarter to four
13 and er , I mean what she saw of Kerry was , she dropped her here at quarter to nine , she picked her up between five and half past and the rest of her she saw around kid , the rest of the time she saw her own kid and er Julia was to have her until she went to school , so I mean how can there be any bond there , which there ca n't , but the mother said herself I had her because it was the done thing so I mean it 's , it 's today in n it do n't you think ?
14 And then I want you to meet , I want you to be back here by quarter to four .
15 I went to see where , she puts lollipop in school like and I went to see exactly she 's supposed to start at quarter to twelve so I went round there for quarter to twelve about five past twelve when she , it 's like yours .
16 I said he 's my father and then he falls out the fucking bed when they put him in it because they admit negligence , they forgot to put the cot side up , dad has got lack of oxygen to his bra brain , he thought it was the Battle of Hastings going on but they said there was nobody there , well surely they must have known Joy he fell out the bloody bed because he 's laying like this and he 's falling and he 's falling and bang come out , he split all his bloody head open , do you know the blood was there from the night he fell out , he fell out at half past ten at night and they never informed us , which is against the law and the blood still sat there at quarter to four the following day , all over the floor , he 's got a bloody stitch in his head which they done to him while he were in the bed , and ripped three tubes out of his arm , split all his bloody arm open
17 So we picked her up at about twenty to three and we took her back there at quarter to eight ?
18 'em , so I had 'em put back up again for quarter to six ,
19 And he said that he 'd phoned them and said could they change it and he 'd finish at eleven then he can still start tomorrow night again at quarter to one .
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