Example sentences of "the [adj] afternoon " in BNC.
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| 1 | She turned towards him , her head propped on her hand , and he saw the strong afternoon light shafting with gold the cropped brightly dyed hair . |
| 2 | They 're all friendly , and fascinated by the way our dinghies plane past in clouds of spray in the strong afternoon winds . |
| 3 | It 's not easy to learn in the strong afternoon winds of the high season unless you 're pretty fit . |
| 4 | One top dealer used to take the odd afternoon off , and secretly work for another licensed dealer nearby , taking his commission payments there cash in hand . |
| 5 | Birds were singing , dogs were being exercised , children shouted in the distance , but the pleasant afternoon had its drawbacks , as the Sergeant explained . |
| 6 | The soporific calm of the drowsy afternoon was shattered by the bell indicator above the kitchen door . |
| 7 | Had n't she been lost seven years ago , in the misty dawns and the drowsy afternoons ? |
| 8 | They were due to face an Ulster Under 21 side at Ravenhill on October 30 with the usual afternoon kick-off . |
| 9 | Well they 're trendy so I suppose it 's the usual afternoon run to Leo 's is it ? |
| 10 | A running and ringing in the darkening afternoon , urgent voices on the phone and the grind and clang of the lift as it came and went . |
| 11 | In the darkening afternoon , the taxi pulled up to her hotel . |
| 12 | London 's leading pair , as if piqued by this , turned 30 September into the longest afternoon . |
| 13 | It was the longest afternoon that I had known and it was worse when I heard the sound of tea being prepared downstairs for this made me even more hungry . |
| 14 | Between a fetid canal and a railway line , under the bleaching afternoon sun , a dozen or so young men stand in line , waiting to buy cocaine . |
| 15 | It appeared round the corner with loud threats of speed , but the colt that it startled from among the gorse , which still flickered indistinctly in the raw afternoon , outdistanced it at a canter ( 2 ) . |
| 16 | what we 're , what I 'm gon na do , I 'm gon na transfer the this afternoon , okay , so what money you full address of the account |
| 17 | Most fervently Breeze wished that Gay were with her now , to share this walk and the exciting afternoon . |
| 18 | From the moment that La Pietra 's anchor was safely biting ( again , watch those mooring chains ) , a superb air of idleness overtook everyone on board , so much so that no one could be bothered to put up the awning and we lay and baked in the sweltering afternoon heat . |
| 19 | The first time that the door opened and spilled yellow light out on to the dark afternoon street , it was the parson making a bid for freedom . |
| 20 | As it was a special fundraising dance instead of the regularly fortnightly hop , a three-piece band had been brought in to replace the usual stack of gramophone records and there was ‘ real food ’ — fishpaste sandwiches , sausage rolls and cheese and pineapple on sticks — which the ‘ committee ’ had spent the entire afternoon preparing . |
| 21 | He had spent the entire afternoon in his office , pacing from the desk to the window , from the widow to door and back to the desk again . |
| 22 | That was probably the understatement of the decade , she acknowledged ruefully some hours later , as she grabbed the first opportunity of the entire afternoon to simply stop moving and stand still in one place for longer than ten seconds . |
| 23 | My mother and aunt hardly uttered a word the entire afternoon . |
| 24 | In fact , the only embarrassing moment the entire afternoon came when Daphne carried the tray out into the kitchen — something I suspected she had seldom done before — and spotted my final school report pinned to the pantry door . |
| 25 | Poland 's official news agency PAP said Kohl flew home in the early afternoon . |
| 26 | When I 'm getting ready for a party — you know , you have a bath some time in the early afternoon or evening , you work out what to wear , you lay the things out on the bed that you vaguely know you look nice in , you roughly know what make-up suits you … well , that 's the point when I start thinking about my leg , and whether it will show . |
| 27 | Their calm , though , was shattered by the sudden explosion of a howitzer shell in the early afternoon of 11th July . |
| 28 | Class B1 No. 61094 passes beneath the former LD & EC viaduct remains at Horns Bridge as it approaches Chesterfield with the early afternoon train from Leicester which would be recessed at Chesterfield before forming the 16.20 departure for Sheffield . |
| 29 | When he realised that if he had company already then , she 'd stay away , Hector made sure that he was alone in the early afternoon . |
| 30 | By the early afternoon the inside of the house was finished . |