Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] at [det] past [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The march was longer than I expected and we staggered in at half past six this morning , having done twenty-seven miles in just over nine hours , which is n't bad . |
| 2 | I said I would make them a hundred butterfly cakes , and they either they 'll eat them or they 'll sell them , and I 'll hav I 'll try and have them ready for when rings up at half past one and if they sell them and she brings me any I would n't mind knocking a few more up for tomorrow , but I 'm not gon na give them all |
| 3 | Mrs Stych came in at half past one , her wings bedraggled from the weight of her coat . |
| 4 | Whining farting howling erm he came in at half past five and er overnight again she 's got two carloads there so it was just the same till gone eleven anyway when Mick came in I said to him what did that bloke say and he said he 's looking out some different equipment to what he |
| 5 | Tessa came in at half past eight and looked overjoyed . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I , I , I woke up at half past six , I got a call |
| 8 | Selwyn decided his dinner was more important , reminded Yanto to pick up at half past two , and wandered off . |
| 9 | But that 's gone and I said I ca n't run in at half past five when you get home from school and chat to you because Nev will be coming at six and I do n't want to be there all that often when he 's there erm it 's just you know it 's just happened . |
| 10 | Yes , and she phoned me and she said I feel as though I dropped out of the bottom of the world she said , you know , I just do n't see anybody , I said well of course you were working on Mondays , you see she used to have Mondays to herself and I would often go round on a Monday afternoon and , we , we could talk , but that 's gone and I said I ca n't run in at half past five when you get home from school and chat to you because Ned will be coming home at six and I do n't want to be there all that often when he 's there erm its you know , its just happened and I also thought to myself and I 'm probably going to move a lot further away then Fen Lane . |
| 11 | she 's going over at half past eleven and she said to me if it 's not worth the money I 'm not changing and er , I shall tell him that I 've certainly got to go on the books you know |
| 12 | drop off at half past ten right , that 's |
| 13 | I was in the car park and er , I got back into the car and , with Mrs , the phone rang and it was erm Mr , he was going out at half past three . |
| 14 | Well , it 's , it 's simple that if I got up at half past six , and took him up a cup of tea at quarter too seven , and when he was around at seven o'clock , I was grilling bacon and I was frying eggs , and I hope , I do n't know whether perhaps it 's my cold , but , I , I just used to feel terribly unwell after he 'd gone , for about two hours and my legs were so wobbly , I was sitting down on the sofa , I may go back yet to cooking him breakfast if I feel like it , but , the , I mean if I can say to these chaps that , there are times when I do n't feel like doing things , well , I reckon Dave that they are so glad to be in that house with the central heating , with the twenty four hour er , er a day water , and the comfort , there not going to argue . |
| 15 | mm , mm but er in the morning I surprise because when I knock your door and I got up early , I got up at half past six cos |
| 16 | and then Sa Saturday , well , I went , well this morning I went through some , I got up at half past six I did some |
| 17 | They set off at half past five in Charlotte 's car . |
| 18 | We work , we we work shift work so I I mean you know we get up at half past four in the morning and and if you 've got people trundling about above your heads all hours of the night it 's er |
| 19 | I do n't know how you can be so tired when you only get up at half past ten in the morning ! |
| 20 | Every night he goes out at half past ten , I said right . |
| 21 | The time , twenty one minutes past twelve and it 's erm the lunch time phone in with me John Simpson through till one o'clock , do n't forget we 've got the latest news headlines coming up at half past twelve , and if you want to join in the phone in you can now , Oxford three double one , one double one , the lines are open , there are lines free , so if you want to ring in . |
| 22 | Yeah , the catholic are coming out at half past nine are n't they . |
| 23 | Mm , yeah but I was coming out at half past nine |
| 24 | I 've got Len coming round at half past twelve |
| 25 | So they want us to go around at half past one or the two of them can start cos we 've got an addition . |
| 26 | No I , I went in at half past seven in the morning and I was in the operation theatre before quarter to nine that same morning so that morning was taken up and the afternoon and evening , Chris came in the evening tt and er oh er Bob , th the curate , our former curate , came |
| 27 | I 'll tell you what we 'll go over at half past four will it be finished by then ? |
| 28 | And then , all I 've done is worked out some time management and say well if these guys turn up at half past eight every morning and I give them a break at ten o'clock , and they get a lunch break and then in afternoon , another break , and they finish at half past four , if everything goes to plan , by four o'clock Friday , my van should be backing up at the end of the production line to load itself up with a thousand widgets . |
| 29 | I were tidying up at half past six this morning . |
| 30 | I said he 's my father and then he falls out the fucking bed when they put him in it because they admit negligence , they forgot to put the cot side up , dad has got lack of oxygen to his bra brain , he thought it was the Battle of Hastings going on but they said there was nobody there , well surely they must have known Joy he fell out the bloody bed because he 's laying like this and he 's falling and he 's falling and bang come out , he split all his bloody head open , do you know the blood was there from the night he fell out , he fell out at half past ten at night and they never informed us , which is against the law and the blood still sat there at quarter to four the following day , all over the floor , he 's got a bloody stitch in his head which they done to him while he were in the bed , and ripped three tubes out of his arm , split all his bloody arm open |