Example sentences of "in [prep] [adj] o'clock " in BNC.
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| 1 | About eight o'clock he says be down , be in for eight o'clock . |
| 2 | Why do n't you go in late , go in for eleven o'clock on a Friday |
| 3 | And then it was thanks for the drinks and time to get back as another gang of wallies was booked in for one o'clock . |
| 4 | ‘ The foreman said : ‘ O.K. , you get the PG Monkeys in for one o'clock . |
| 5 | Yeah oh yeah I did n't work anywhere else in Willenhall at all , and erm but we 'd got to be in for seven o'clock and if erm you were n't in for seven o'clock and sometimes I used to hear the bell began ringing when I got to go around the corner and get into the , but you had to wait a quarter of an hour before they would let you in and that was stopped off your money and my wage was eight and fourpence a week . |
| 6 | Yeah oh yeah I did n't work anywhere else in Willenhall at all , and erm but we 'd got to be in for seven o'clock and if erm you were n't in for seven o'clock and sometimes I used to hear the bell began ringing when I got to go around the corner and get into the , but you had to wait a quarter of an hour before they would let you in and that was stopped off your money and my wage was eight and fourpence a week . |
| 7 | No but what I 'm saying is that went in before twelve o'clock . |
| 8 | Just but , once you as you long as you got in before twelve o'clock |
| 9 | He gave me his number , and said that he 'd be in from eight o'clock onwards . |
| 10 | But they not see Darius because he not been in since five o'clock . |
| 11 | ‘ Remember his train does n't come in till six o'clock , and then he has to ride ten miles on our old horse . ’ |
| 12 | We watched the other fi he he was n't in till eight o'clock . |
| 13 | Christine , I 'm not coming in till nine o'clock , perhaps half past eight , half past eight , I will pick you up as well . |
| 14 | on Tuesday I went get in till nine o'clock ! |
| 15 | But psychologically what happens is , eventually they say well , what 's the point of getting up in the morning , so they lie in till ten o'clock . |
| 16 | I take it he was in at eight o'clock . |
| 17 | I would n't say he was in at eight o'clock . |
| 18 | it is , I said I 've given you a lot of time in the holidays and what have you come in and now you 're making a big song and dance about an hour and she said oh I 'm sorry I did n't mean to speak to you like that , but she did , she was just plain rude and really quite nasty , eh she should of yeah , and she should of told me that I was n't , becomes taking a lunch break and then she said well you could of taken half an hour , I said you did n't tell me well I said to her Matt rung up this morning and said to you , surveyor 's coming up to , at four o'clock , he wants both of us to be there so we know which way the windows will be and all the rest of it , just bear in mind , now I said to her I know it 's short notice but can I please go at four o'clock , she said yeah it is short notice but yeah no problem come in at eight o'clock tomorrow morning as a joke and then she totally changed her attitude when she came back from her thing mm yeah oh yeah that was nice of her well I said to her , I said to her oh I said to her look she would take |
| 19 | ‘ Where is Jack ? ’ asked Mr Rogers , as he came in at six o'clock . |
| 20 | Often George came in at five o'clock in the morning to hammer away at the pirate ship in the carpenter 's shop . |
| 21 | We 've had no trouble with deliveries because my husband brings the stuff in at five o'clock in the morning . |
| 22 | Occasionally , after refreshments — two would go in at two o'clock , two more at half past two , and so on — the only time you could have a natter with your colleague was when you left the station and you saw the sergeant going in for his refreshments . |
| 23 | The bulker 's going in at two o'clock . |
| 24 | Bill told her to stop in bed this morning and he 'd w he 'd get her up when he come in at two o'clock this afternoon . |
| 25 | Hirtle ( 1975 : 124 ) makes this successivity explicit when he diagrams his analysis of modal will in At one o'clock they will eat lunch : The role of will is described as that of " keeping the infinitive beyond the stretch of time containing the present of actual consciousness " and so situating its event in the future . |
| 26 | And the hours er the early that 's what they called the early men they went in at one o'clock . |
| 27 | All bleeding Dave told Ann and he thought Ann told everybody else they had to be in at one o'clock . |
| 28 | He said can you come in at one o'clock ? |
| 29 | She 'd had bad times before she got the flat , but with the flat and the job she felt herself well off She worked from six in the morning to a quarter to nine , getting the offices clean and tidy for the staff who came in at nine o'clock , and for two hours in the evening , from six-thirty to eight-thirty . |
| 30 | He said , cos we find people were n't coming in at nine o'clock , you know |