Example sentences of "[vb past] at [num] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Twice a week throughout more than one winter , he rose at five in the morning , and having saddled his pony himself , left the Abbey punctually as the clock struck six in order to attend Dr. Witt 's clinical lecture at seven , in the Bedford Infirmary ’ . |
| 2 | James Cran rose at 5.17 on the Thursday morning of the Maastricht Bill debate . |
| 3 | Not the best reason for flying home , but oh God , she was sick of the subzero temperatures , the fact that the sun rose at ten in the morning and set at two in the afternoon . |
| 4 | GPO clock which stopped at 2.25 on the afternoon of Easter Monday . |
| 5 | The mother shouted at one of the boys and he went back to sit in the small lorry . |
| 6 | The crisis came at 5-5 in the second game , by which time Horner had begun to dig in . |
| 7 | Perdita woke at two in the morning . |
| 8 | The former occurs when one square is parallel with and another turned at 450 to the border ; the latter if both are turned , oppositely , through about 300 . |
| 9 | As a matter of fact er yes I , I , I joined at sixteen on the union , when I was a , a kid and er I 've always believed in it and I encourage others to do the same . |
| 10 | I arrived at 9.30 for the 10 o'clock appointment . |
| 11 | Shoppers were already milling around , for the centre opened at nine in the morning and closed at nine at night , when late shoppers had to be shooed out like errant sheep . |
| 12 | When voting began at eight in the morning in Kompong Cham , the country 's most populous province , thousands of damp Cambodians were already outside the polling stations . |
| 13 | And the course , beautifully manicured in preparation for one of golf 's oldest championships , looked like a landscape painter 's dream as play began at 7.30 on the dot yesterday morning . |
| 14 | The battle began at three in the morning and continued uninterrupted until past daybreak . |
| 15 | Work began at seven in the morning and went on until the time , as the station-master put it , ‘ when the work is finished ’ , usually seven in the evening . |
| 16 | A glance at the careers of nine of the ten Muftis who held the office between 988/1580 and 1031/1622 and whose teaching careers fall in the latter half of the sixteenth century , after the building of the Suleymaniye medreses , will give an idea of the teaching background apparently considered essential to give one a chance of eventual appointment to what had by then become the highest learned office : all nine men taught at the Sahn and subsequently at one of the 60-akce medreses built prior to the building of the Suleymaniye medreses , for example , the Sehzade medrese ; two of the nine then went directly to their first mevleviyet ( early on in the period , in 1566 and 1573 ) , while six taught at one of the Suleymaniye medreses and one at the medrese of the mother of Murad III in Uskudar ( the Atik Valide medrese ) , newer than Suleyman 's medreses , before being appointed to their first mevleviyet . |
| 17 | Discovered at one of the LTA 's 3 Star Clubs at King George 's Comprehensive school , by the father of local professional coach Harvey Slater ( who now coaches the youngster ) , Joanne , who is about to leave school for a year of full time playing , is one of the few British juniors who has the ability to ‘ kick ’ and break from the pack . |
| 18 | The next day he kept himself concealed , and then , after travelling all night , alighted at seven in the morning of May 5 at Montreuil 's lodgings in Southwell . ’ |
| 19 | We eventually went to the Austrian Police in an effort to get some assistance and , as good fortune would have it , we met it young Austrian called Thomas who worked at one of the Shipping Offices on the border . |
| 20 | Lord and Lady Errol owned Slains Castle , a wide pile on the land 's edge : the pair arrived as the dinner bell rang at three in the afternoon . |
| 21 | ‘ The day started at six in the morning and went on till six in the evening — even until seven at one time . |
| 22 | Brigitte did make enquiries at Pitmans , where classes started at five in the evening , and at the Kilburn Polytechnic , where there were weekend classes , but continued to doubt her ability to study enough at evening classes . |
| 23 | We started at seven in the morning and we finished at eight at night . |
| 24 | Quite a bit there er when you lay it out like that in a pattern a thought pattern which shows just how much er we did actually get through er from where you started at ten in the morning or just after with the presentation right through to the second presentation . |
| 25 | We then continued our journey , pushing on until we reached the city walls and lodged at one of the fine taverns on the Southwark side of the river . |
| 26 | In a pagan world which was full of gods and where men and women encountered the divine at every turn , there was no need for the mystical disciplines to help people to cultivate a sense of presence and unity : they already felt at one with the world . |
| 27 | The survey , conducted between September and December last year , looked at 687 of the UK 's 2,000 privately run pools of which 363 — just over half the sample — were in hotels , guesthouses and conference centres . |
| 28 | The President looked at one of the papers before him . |
| 29 | The cook looked at one of the maids , " Jane , will you fetch Master Patrick a cup and saucer please . " |
| 30 | Paulie looked at one of the questions ! |