Example sentences of "four [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | About four o'clock on the afternoon of April the eighteenth , 1928 . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ He did not change for death till about four o'clock on the day he died . |
| 3 | It was near here , at roughly four o'clock on the green , that I placed the small house where the two friends Ella and Dimity lived amicably together for a number of years . |
| 4 | At four o'clock on the beach |
| 5 | ‘ About four o'clock in the afternoon . ’ |
| 6 | At about four o'clock in the afternoon , just before dusk , we came to a wooded bluff . |
| 7 | On a wet Wednesday in March 1987 , as part of a short survey - not scientifically conducted , but as part of a personal investigation into the cause of alienation among secondary age children — I found myself with a group of seven girls and one boy , between the ages of twelve and fifteen , at the Didcot Health Centre at four o'clock in the afternoon . |
| 8 | She sat there and about four o'clock in the afternoon the sister came round , ‘ I 'm sorry , Mrs Nicholson , we have n't got any transport , you 'll have to stop another night . ’ |
| 9 | Evenings represent maximum temptation for most slimmers , although around four o'clock in the afternoon , when the children come home from school , can be the worst time for many mothers who may be waiting until mid evening to dine with their husbands . |
| 10 | Up till four o'clock in the afternoon . |
| 11 | Six o'clock in the morning till four o'clock in the afternoon . |
| 12 | Round about four o'clock in the afternoon he would sometimes forget Morris and sprawl back in his chair with his hands behind his head , yawning and looking at the ceiling , just as he had before Morris 's arrival . |
| 13 | He worked on the farm until four o'clock in the afternoon . |
| 14 | At four o'clock in the afternoon of the third day , Mr Seeders came in . |
| 15 | ‘ It is now four o'clock in the afternoon , ’ he said . |
| 16 | Four o'clock in the afternoon . |
| 17 | It was four o'clock in the afternoon . |
| 18 | Order was restored around four o'clock in the afternoon , when the tanks encircling the town removed the covers from their guns and Mr Patel heard on his wireless set that the British prime minister had sanctioned the use of carpet bombing . |
| 19 | He added : ‘ One ca n't imagine a feebler way of making a protest or trying to gain by showing A Clockwork Orange … at four o'clock in the afternoon at the Scala cinema on a weekday and advertising it as a surprise item . ’ |
| 20 | Er that was four o'clock in the afternoon . |
| 21 | alright letting you here at four o'clock in the afternoon , sun shining |
| 22 | Does n't it feel like it should be about four o'clock in the afternoon ? |
| 23 | On Fridays we 'd often go to the Royal College of Art where they used to have these great shows which went on till three or four o'clock in the morning . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's four o'clock in the morning , ’ she told herself . |
| 25 | In apparent agreement with this idea , some subjects appeared to benefit from continual advances of their sleep/wake rhythm ( as though they were continually flying eastward ) or by being woken temporarily at about four o'clock in the morning to receive a burst of bright light for about an hour . |
| 26 | It took him till nearly four o'clock in the morning . |
| 27 | I waited and waited for him at the points and eventually met him about three or four o'clock in the morning for the first time . |
| 28 | S. H. The worst part of the job is when you had to go round that beat at four o'clock in the morning and it 's teeming with rain . |
| 29 | By four o'clock in the morning , when Alice Mair woke with a small despairing cry from her nightmare , the wind was rising . |
| 30 | They returned to Joan 's parents ' house and about four o'clock in the morning decided on two steps . |