Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [adv] at [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How many women want to sit down at two o'clock and give an hour and a half of their attention to a play of any sort whatsoever , let alone one about the life of somebody who collects Irish folk ballads ? |
| 2 | I want to call in at one of those hotels to check something . |
| 3 | As one manager expressed it : ‘ Managers appear to turn up at 9.00 and leave at 4.30 , but they take their problems home with them . ’ |
| 4 | Two guys tried to break in at three in the morning , and they woke the neighbours . ’ |
| 5 | The guy says he was in a hurry to get home because he has to get up at six tomorrow morning because he 's donating some of his bone marrow so that his sister can have a bone marrow transplant … |
| 6 | Vic Wilcox is in a meeting with his Marketing Director , Brian Everthorpe , who answered Vic 's summons at 9.30 complaining of contraflow holdups on the motorway , and whom Vic , himself dictating letters at 9.30 , told to come back at eleven . |
| 7 | He was seen to bend down at two drains near his home . |
| 8 | Bill expected her to be at York racecourse to ride out at eight — if she put her foot down , she could just about make it . |
| 9 | One day outside Aigburth Huts , waiting to go off at 3 p.m. on the afternoon shift , two of us on a bike job . |
| 10 | I was going to get up at 5.30 anyway so it did n't make all that much difference . |
| 11 | Well , then that was at a higher level than at present , but we 're not going to take on at ten per cent interest . |
| 12 | but er , I do n't know how he got out yesterday and I 've never , never know him parked down the road , not at all , anyway we got , I got home and erm , I said to Bev you know , right go and phone Lesley see if she 's in and then I did a bit of housework and then the phone rang , ooh , we was aiming to go out at one and that must of been ten to one , and it was Liz |
| 13 | It was a further achievement that delegates from these two , until recently hostile , camps could clash sharply in debate during the conference without acrimony , although black consciousness delegates from Natal threatened to walk out at one stage . |
| 14 | Typically , the Bank will announce that discount houses wishing to use their borrowing facilities are invited to do so at 2.30 p.m. ; on such occasions the interest rate at which loans are made is usually published . |
| 15 | She began to get up at two or three every morning , and was in church most of the day , often sobbing ‘ boisterously ’ , and making a great outcry for her sins . |
| 16 | Otherwise I 'd have to go home at 5.30 p.m. and I 'd have to start all over again . " |
| 17 | Luke 's kiss , withheld to torment her for a moment while he stared into her darkened eyes , was an insult when it came , and yet insufficient to her hunger , because his mouth was torn away from hers again almost at once , plunging to suckle hard at one exposed breast for several agonising seconds , the message blatant — she was desired , and despised . |
| 18 | They were jammed in a pack at the bar , having to talk loudly at eight inches ' range . |
| 19 | Then you turned thirty , started to nod off at ten-thirty and had attacks of the Blue Spots when you ran up a flight of stairs . |
| 20 | The poor chap 's having to get up at two or three o'clock in the morning , this is being paid for it . |
| 21 | ‘ The only indication we have is that somebody seems to have drawn the bolt on the yard door between Gerald failing to get in at 11.15 , and the mystery woman succeeding at 11.30 . |
| 22 | I 'm gon na have to get up at four . |
| 23 | Not only walking to do the shopping but walking to work when men would have to get up at 4.0 a.m. with , in some cases , an hour 's walk to get to work . |
| 24 | The Duchess has even taken up sketching to feel more at one with the subject of her new book ( Victoria apparently relied on her own sketches rather than paparazzi snaps or pictures in Hello ! as mementoes of overseas trips ) and admits that she , like the late Queen , is a ‘ tireless traveller ’ . |
| 25 | He managed to blurt out at one stage in the proceedings : ‘ I did n't have any dollars , no gold , I do n't smoke and I earn 3,500 lei a month . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Chefs do n't want to get up at six in the morning to go to Docklands , ’ Mr Moran says . |
| 27 | They 're meant to go home at four thirty . |
| 28 | We used to have to get up at six and scrub out the still-room every morning . |
| 29 | The night before I could not get to sleep then in the morning I woke up at half past five when I was meant to get up at seven thirty . |
| 30 | and er anyway he got home about half past three so we had to go down to Marks went down to Marks , came back and he bought me a sandwich , I said I 've eaten nothing all day , bought me this sandwich , I was hoping to go away at six |