Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] at dawn " in BNC.

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1 So devoted was Meirion that when he came in at dawn once , to get the boilers going , he tripped on a pipe in the shunting shed and broke his forearm .
2 ‘ Do n't you mean when he came in at dawn ? ’ she breathed provocatively .
3 Coleridge had rolled in his sleep down the hill slope to within a few yards of the river , and when he woke up at dawn , he found he was unable to move or even to call out to the shepherds and workmen he could see near by .
4 They rode off at dawn .
5 One victim having failed to dislodge the vandals by pouring petrol into their tunnels , crept out at dawn and fired a shotgun into a mole then constructing a hill .
6 As the new presenter , Nicholas Witchell is chiefly celebrated for sitting on a lesbian during a news bulletin , you switched on at dawn with some cynicism .
7 The blaze broke out at dawn on Saturday and destroyed a section of an old wooden stand at the Waterloo end of the ground .
8 Took off at dawn , bomb craters and all ! ’
9 The American Consul-General in Port of Spain granted Stewart an emergency visa for his dash through Caracas and on to New York , and Stewart set off at dawn on the Tuesday , hoping to reach Ayresome Park in time for the replay on Saturday .
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