Example sentences of "[adj] o'clock " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , the star compiles and writes the evening , and calls in a fellow thesp to direct : Petherbridge 's The Eight O'Clock Muse is staged by Peter Barkworth , John Sessions 's Napoleon — The American Story by Kenneth Branagh ( a promising young actor , in case you had n't heard ) . |
| 2 | THEATRE / The Eight O'Clock News — Riverside , W6 . |
| 3 | Like a best-man 's speech , Edward Petherbridge 's The Eight O'Clock News is an anecdotal monologue , often rambling , occasionally funny and inevitably far too long . |
| 4 | ‘ Suddenly we realised it was eight o'clock and we rushed to the sitting room to put on the TV . |
| 5 | By the time dinner has been eaten and evening prayers conducted it is eight o'clock and about a hundred people have gathered . |
| 6 | At eight o'clock I get into my car , a Chevy with bench seats in the front and the back , no bucket seats . |
| 7 | You may not know it , but I have n't had a thing to eat since eight o'clock and it 's half-past two now . ’ |
| 8 | As yet it was only eight o'clock and the sun reluctant to leave without treating its worshippers to a pyrotechnic display of rose and gold flames that burnt up the whole western sky . |
| 9 | About eight o'clock in the evening he was summoned to her bedside . |
| 10 | John McLeish was feeling justifiably pleased with himself as he walked into his office at eight o'clock on Monday morning . |
| 11 | ‘ We have a date at eight o'clock , ’ he said redundantly to Catherine . |
| 12 | ‘ She agreed eight o'clock when I spoke to her yesterday , after I 'd offered her every other hour of the day . |
| 13 | She had set off from Margate before eight o'clock and for a short time she fell asleep in his arms . |
| 14 | Chauffeurs had met them at their Inn on the Park hotel , at seven o'clock sharp ; and at five minutes to eight they had taken their seats around the long elliptical table at European headquarters to ensure the meeting began on time , at precisely eight o'clock . |
| 15 | Outside , at eight o'clock , the streets were already busy with sweepers , a watering-cart , shop assistants , police blowing whistles , bicycles , scooters , not many cars , the voices of the lottery ticket vendors , schoolchildren screaming as they ran to school , carts pulled by donkeys braying , trucks hooting , an ambulance siren — it all added up to utter confusion . |
| 16 | The classes started at eight o'clock and were supposed to end at ten , but with the usual chatting afterwards it was almost eleven o'clock before I reached home . |
| 17 | This morning , before she left for work at eight o'clock , her mother had been friendly , quite chatty in fact . |
| 18 | She had fingered the lamp and slid back an edge of the curtain on to a sun-flecked , eight o'clock day , searching for a clue . |
| 19 | Come for us about eight o'clock . ’ |
| 20 | It could only be about eight o'clock — her old-fashioned watch , unwound this morning , had stopped — but she felt as if she had been up all night , working to meet an insane deadline . |
| 21 | We ca n't get up before eight o'clock , for until half past eight there is no daylight in our room … |
| 22 | ‘ As to the time of death , I took the internal body temperature at eight o'clock . |
| 23 | ‘ Around eight o'clock . ’ |
| 24 | You 've just forced yourself into a cab , which is going down a London street at eight o'clock at night . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ You were standing outside the University gates at about eight o'clock in the morning , last Wednesday . ’ |
| 26 | Then at eight o'clock , the señora says , ‘ Well , shall we go ? ’ |
| 27 | This expedition began this morning almost an hour later than I had planned , despite my having completed my packing and loaded the ford with all necessary items well before eight o'clock . |
| 28 | In a sense I was pretty ill , because I would go out at eight o'clock in the evening , having recovered from the appalling hangover caused by my previous night 's activities in Cairo , and re-establish my illness by that night 's activities . ’ |
| 29 | A little after eight o'clock the sun touches the altar rock , the signal for the burial to begin . |
| 30 | At about eight o'clock on the evening of 28 July , the Prince , disguised as Betty Burke and wearing a ‘ flower 'd linen apron gown ’ , escaped from the Benbecula rowed by six strong men and accompanied by Flora Macdonald and faithful Neil MacEachan . |