Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] o'clock the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a long night ahead of him , and he would not be relieved until eight o'clock the following morning when Ben Thompson arrived . |
| 2 | ‘ Did you know , Lewis , that before nine o'clock the third-class rail fare — ’ |
| 3 | I think erm casualty was the worst in that you had very very long hours to do erm sometimes you were on call from five o'clock in the evening until nine o'clock the following morning , and you did that for a whole week so by the end of the time you really did feel inhuman , you were very very tired . |
| 4 | She had not seen her daughter since 9 o'clock the previous evening . |
| 5 | She did so , and was able to get an appointment for two o'clock the following afternoon . |
| 6 | At eleven o'clock the following morning , Buzz sat down on the blue chair by Elinor 's bedroom window , pulled the kitchen timer from the pocket of her navy cotton dress , and set it to twenty minutes : the mechanism began to tick in an irritating way . |
| 7 | At eleven o'clock the big Volvo appeared at the far end of the hangar and drove slowly towards him , coming to a stop with its engine running forty feet away . |
| 8 | Both she and Graham agreed there was little else they could do that night and when he telephoned through to report to UNACO headquarters he was told a company Cessna would be waiting at six o'clock the following morning to fly them on to Geneva , the nearest airport to Lausanne . |
| 9 | At 3 o'clock the following morning Lawford was awakened by a phone call . |
| 10 | As arranged with the Commander , Milton and Pooley arrived at ffeatherstonehaugh 's at ten o'clock the following morning . |
| 11 | At nine o'clock the diplomatic corps gathered in the Salle de Louis XIV , next to the Throne Room , through which the Court passed in front of the diplomats and their wives . |
| 12 | At nine o'clock the Dutch troops still waited . |
| 13 | Now what I want to do in this lecture is to finish off the er introductory part of my , of my remarks and take us up to the point where beginning at twelve o'clock the real part , the real er core of this course begins when we start to look at social theory . |
| 14 | Jack Hassard , an NILP member of Dungannon Council , condemned the ban on the Market Square meeting , which had only been notified by the police at twelve o'clock the previous night . |
| 15 | The formal sitting began at one o'clock the following day . |
| 16 | We left Clove Lodge at six o'clock in the morning and arrived back at four o'clock the following morning . |
| 17 | Eddie explained that the day 's work had started at seven o'clock the previous evening when two customers telephoned requesting samples . |
| 18 | The afternoon when they discover that they have to have a complete outline plan of the Dolomites ready for the Ministry by nine o'clock the following morning , and all stay working into the small hours , until their backs are aching and their eyes closing , and they all love each other and are united in extremity against the entire world . |