Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] o'clock [art] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A little after eight o'clock the sun touches the altar rock , the signal for the burial to begin . |
| 2 | Shortly after two o'clock the police returned in strength . |
| 3 | Just before ten o'clock the reporters set out on their ‘ beats ’ . |
| 4 | At eleven o'clock the teams stopped working . |
| 5 | He need not undergo terrorist treatment in the swimming bath , not get up at six o'clock every morning to feed old Bones . |
| 6 | At 5 o'clock the justices indicated that they were retiring to consider their conclusions and to draft the reasons that they intended to state to support those conclusions . |
| 7 | At ten o'clock the lights went out . |
| 8 | Had he been in Whitechapel , Charlie would have been happy to run up and down the market from five in the morning to seven at night and still box a few rounds at the club , drink a couple of pints of beer and carry out the same routine the next day without a second thought , but when at nine o'clock the sergeant-major gave them a ten-minute break for cocoa he collapsed on to the verge exhausted . |
| 9 | At one o'clock the judge left the court for an hour . |
| 10 | At four o'clock the door opened , and a very strange servant came in . |
| 11 | By six o'clock the water had n't arrived and Haverford , looking at their despondent faces , said , ‘ It 's like a death in the family . ’ |
| 12 | But by ten o'clock the mist had gone , burned off by the sun which shone from a clear blue sky . |
| 13 | But Eileen did n't sleep , and by nine o'clock the pain had become stronger . |