Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] in the [adj] hours " in BNC.
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| 1 | Routine maintenance work is often carried out in the early hours at the centre when workmen can avoid causing disruption to shoppers . |
| 2 | Evening distractions were few , although we did hear Sinead O'Connor blasting out in the early hours in one village , and we spent one evening joining in with some traditional dancing — the original Twist ! |
| 3 | Two nights later he woke up in the small hours and lay there coldly . |
| 4 | I woke up in the early hours of the morning and it was still there — the first thing that come into my head . |
| 5 | I 'd been given a date for the baby to arrive but that came and went , but then I woke up in the early hours of the following Friday . |
| 6 | The trains time her life , crashing through fitful dreams at night , slackening off in the early hours . |
| 7 | It means getting up in the early hours to be ready to board a coach at around 6.30am that will transport them to the South Coast , then bring them back again , arriving home at around midnight . |
| 8 | Many 's the night he 's been called out in the small hours … ’ |
| 9 | It is a medical fact that the body is at its lowest ebb between three and six in the morning and the ability to react , the ability to think when one is being woken up in the early hours of the morning erm are a consideration that we take into account when we have to mount an operation inside a premises . |
| 10 | It was merely a figure of speech ; you need have no fear that I 'll creep along in the early hours to take advantage of your defenceless body . ’ |
| 11 | His luck ran out in the early hours of March 4th when French Customs controls identified Sea Rover homing in towards French waters at Ushant after a passage to North Africa for another cargo . |