Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] the following [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was eight o'clock the following morning when Ben came back from the town . |
| 2 | There was a long night ahead of him , and he would not be relieved until eight o'clock the following morning when Ben Thompson arrived . |
| 3 | At eleven o'clock the following morning , Buzz sat down on the blue chair by Elinor 's bedroom window , pulled the kitchen timer from the pocket of her navy cotton dress , and set it to twenty minutes : the mechanism began to tick in an irritating way . |
| 4 | Both she and Graham agreed there was little else they could do that night and when he telephoned through to report to UNACO headquarters he was told a company Cessna would be waiting at six o'clock the following morning to fly them on to Geneva , the nearest airport to Lausanne . |
| 5 | Acting on a hunch , I stationed myself at 5.59 p.m. the following Monday , and sure enough I was nearly killed by middle managers trying to get out of the office before the 6 p.m. deadline . |
| 6 | It was three o'clock the following morning when Tilly Mulliver was woken from a shallow sleep . |
| 7 | At 11 a.m. the following day his mother was told of his detention . |
| 8 | If set to ALL then the following activities are automatically recorded in the QAO log . |
| 9 | At 4 pm the following afternoon he awoke and came downstairs asking for breakfast ! |
| 10 | At 3 o'clock the following morning Lawford was awakened by a phone call . |
| 11 | Dr Mortimer and Sir Henry Baskerville arrived at exactly ten o'clock the following morning . |
| 12 | As arranged with the Commander , Milton and Pooley arrived at ffeatherstonehaugh 's at ten o'clock the following morning . |
| 13 | During the football season ( eight months of the year ! ) the early turn men parade at 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. , return for a few hours , then re-parade 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. , and sometimes have to go on duty at 6 a.m. the following morning . |
| 14 | I think erm casualty was the worst in that you had very very long hours to do erm sometimes you were on call from five o'clock in the evening until nine o'clock the following morning , and you did that for a whole week so by the end of the time you really did feel inhuman , you were very very tired . |
| 15 | The afternoon when they discover that they have to have a complete outline plan of the Dolomites ready for the Ministry by nine o'clock the following morning , and all stay working into the small hours , until their backs are aching and their eyes closing , and they all love each other and are united in extremity against the entire world . |
| 16 | The formal sitting began at one o'clock the following day . |
| 17 | At 11 p.m. , he made sure there was still plenty of tape left on the machine and departed , returning at 8 a.m. the following morning to take it across the street to Syrian George . |
| 18 | One morning , he left Leeds at eight am and after interviews in London and a concert in Brighton , he arrived back at school at nine am the following morning . |
| 19 | He opened one eye at 6.30 am the following morning and there stood that efficient individual dispensing bright conversation and a cup of steaming , over-sweet tea . |
| 20 | To say we were physically exhausted does not begin to describe how we felt when we finally made it , and it was only a small consolation to hear that we would not start until 9 am the following morning . |
| 21 | She did so , and was able to get an appointment for two o'clock the following afternoon . |
| 22 | We left Clove Lodge at six o'clock in the morning and arrived back at four o'clock the following morning . |
| 23 | A couple of grand prix wins came in 1963 and two more the following year before another highly successful season in 1965 saw three victories and a string of second places for Jackie Stewart and Hill . |
| 24 | At two thirty precisely the following afternoon , Murphy and the carriage and the stout , gleaming pair of bays were ready before the front door . |
| 25 | Morse and Lewis arrived at the Chesterton Hotel in Bath at 10.35 a.m. the following morning . |
| 26 | At seven a.m. the following morning , contemplating newspaper headlines which screamed ‘ The Filth and the Fury ’ , and with the clamour of shareholders ringing in his ears , Leslie Hill personally telephoned Branson at home with a simple request , ‘ Can we talk ? ’ |