Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] o'clock [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is only two o'clock in the afternoon and already me and the boys have had more beer , sex , drugs and Nintendo than you 'll have all year , you sad f— ! |
| 2 | It was always five o'clock of a winter evening there and all the tempting boxes gave it a night-before-Christmas look , a richly expectant atmosphere of surprise packages . |
| 3 | I ju , it , you see I 'll , I work until the end nearly eleven o'clock in the day to yo , to work start work today like on the art . |
| 4 | ‘ You know it 's nearly five o'clock in the afternoon , do n't you ? ’ |
| 5 | It was nearly five o'clock by the time she made it back up to the house , which was thankfully empty . |
| 6 | It was nearly two o'clock in the morning . |
| 7 | It was only after we had settled in and had sorted out our luggage that we realised that although it was still broad daylight , our watches told us that it was nearly two o'clock in the morning ! |
| 8 | It took him till nearly four o'clock in the morning . |
| 9 | Not at nearly seven o'clock in the garden of the Ferret and Firkin . |
| 10 | At about eight o'clock on the evening of 28 July , the Prince , disguised as Betty Burke and wearing a ‘ flower 'd linen apron gown ’ , escaped from the Benbecula rowed by six strong men and accompanied by Flora Macdonald and faithful Neil MacEachan . |
| 11 | About eight o'clock in the evening he was summoned to her bedside . |
| 12 | He returned home about eight o'clock in the evening , feeling absolutely exhausted , and as he said , all he wanted to do was go to sleep . |
| 13 | I think about eight o'clock in the evening at home . |
| 14 | ‘ You were standing outside the University gates at about eight o'clock in the morning , last Wednesday . ’ |
| 15 | Well when I was down at the er council that May , I told them there and then that er I 'm prepared to er let one of the council men come to our house , about eight o'clock in the morning , and then stop till ten and then come back again about two and wait till they come home from school which they would n't have come home from school , but they go across the road and come back again , double back as if they 'd been to school |
| 16 | About eight o'clock in the morning I would get up put on jodhpurs , shirt , tie and jeans and a jumper to protect my riding clothes . |
| 17 | I used to go off about eight o'clock in the morning . |
| 18 | She used to go out er about eight o'clock in the morning , Tuesday mornings , not Wednesday , cos we had a boy then , we used to call him Frank . |
| 19 | Coleridge himself long believed that he was born on 20 October , but his father , with a clergyman 's attention to such matters , recorded in the parish register that the true date was 21 October ‘ about eleven o'clock in the forenoon ’ . |
| 20 | They can not get to sleep until about 2 o'clock in the morning or later , even when they go to bed much earlier . |
| 21 | At about 2 o'clock in the morning of Monday we were awakened by terrific shouting in the street and , when we looked out , the sky was just a red glow . |
| 22 | By contrast , even if we manage to get to sleep at about 10 o'clock in the morning the sleep is likely to be shorter and broken . |
| 23 | About six o'clock in the evening I think it was . |
| 24 | Smith on the station , well , that involved a paper round starting round about six o'clock in the morning . |
| 25 | Up there about six o'clock in the morning , ad we managed to get him out them . |
| 26 | It does n't get light until about six o'clock in the morning and it gets dark |
| 27 | But it was now three o'clock in the morning and the debate was quickly wound up with the money being voted for the site and foundations . |
| 28 | At about three o'clock in the afternoon , I was standing at the door of the inn when I saw a blind man coming along the road . |
| 29 | If you take your morning one about nine o'clock , you could quite easily take one about three o'clock in the afternoon . |
| 30 | It was one of these jobs we were hoping It was n't too big a load but it was a houseload , we were hoping to get mi finished for the mid-afternoon , about three o'clock in the afternoon , or four perhaps . |