Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [prep] [art] small hours " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I lugged that pear from the kitchen in the small hours , ’ Finch said in a remote voice . |
| 2 | And at the end , after twelve cancelled variants in one short paragraph , a single sentence , itself the third attempt , tells us ‘ They would not let the orchestra go , and musicians who attempted to leave were beaten up ’ , which says all we need to know about the unstated ‘ Keep playing ! ’ whereby the liveliness of the small hours will have been sustained . |
| 3 | And that was probably the main complaint overall was the noise in the small hours . |
| 4 | You can choose between a vast selection of bars , all with English or English speaking staff , and take your pick out of the 6 or 7 nightclubs that raise the roof until the small hours . |
| 5 | In the purgatory of the small hours the person |
| 6 | The arrival of the jackbooted armed emissaries of the state , battering the door in the small hours of the morning , has become the epitome of political repression of right and of left , particularly in respect of dissenting minorities . |
| 7 | Suddenly in the silence of the small hours its patience would break and she listened rigidly to its scrabbling attempts to break out . |
| 8 | She had said ‘ the rest of you ’ and I had never heard her so distance herself before , but what astonished me was the realisation that my father must have been at that party , must have returned with my mother to the villa in the small hours , must have been aware of me in my little white pyjamas and Panama hat . |
| 9 | I must have been awfully slow , I never got in ahead of her and was always the poor mutt who staggered into the office in the small hours , bleary-eyed and half-dead , while Olive , yawning profusely and clutching her hot water bottle to her bosom , was able to trip down the path to her waiting bed and not surface till about midday the next day . |
| 10 | A talented broadcaster , he undertook in the summer of 1940 to contribute three times a week in the small hours of the morning to the BBC 's short-wave service to the empire and the United States . |
| 11 | Hope was generally busy , but with the three of us I should be able to snatch the time for a letter in the small hours . |