Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] hours " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Royal Duke was a fishermen 's pub with an afternoon trade from men who had brought their catch in during the small hours of the morning . |
| 2 | Ian James walked in during the early hours of the morning and stole a leather jacket and a handbag from the hall . |
| 3 | Sometimes Sheila got away from her family to come with her and she drove down for a few hours as well as now and again in the middle of the week . |
| 4 | We sailed into a murky , airless dawn veiled by the thin drizzle of a Scotch Mist , and I turned in for a few hours . |
| 5 | Contentedly I went below and turned in for a few hours , leaving my colleague to navigate . |
| 6 | It was merely a figure of speech ; you need have no fear that I 'll creep along in the early hours to take advantage of your defenceless body . ’ |
| 7 | The most intensively automated sections of any library are probably the short loan collections of universities , where books in high demand are separately shelved and issued for varying brief periods of a few days down to a few hours on one day . |
| 8 | Often the Phantasms — daemon-masked , each dabbed with different costly scents , and gowned in luminous silk appliquéd with lascivious emblems — would bomb around the broad upper avenues on their jet-trikes , and through almost deserted midnight malls , seeking stylised mayhem with another brat gang or hunting for an odour bar or an elegant brothel which they could take over for a few hours before fleeing just ahead of a Judge patrol . |
| 9 | They leave their civilian jobs , and instead of heading for home and a quiet night in front of the television , report in to their company bases , change into military uniform and are briefed for the night 's patrol tasks , which will take them through until the early hours of the morning , When they again become civilians . |
| 10 | I would have been satisfied in any event that all interested parties must have anticipated that the operation of a commercial port would not be limited to the day time , but would carry on throughout the 24 hours of every day . |
| 11 | His meeting was not until the next morning , so he could switch off for a few hours . |
| 12 | I collect a dozen or so from the dewy grass in the early morning and set off for a few hours ' chubbing , knowing I am going to catch several fish , providing , of course , the weather and water conditions are favourable . |
| 13 | ‘ Fancy skiving off for a few hours ? |
| 14 | A friend treated her to a pukkah drinks-dispensing butler who asked if he might make a personal remark before teetering off into the small hours . |
| 15 | The trains time her life , crashing through fitful dreams at night , slackening off in the early hours . |
| 16 | By midnight it 's really rocking and on into the early hours of the morning we adjourn to one of the best discos in Faliraki , Set Disco , where 18–30 Social members can get special discounts . |
| 17 | And here she 's telling Ruth , now what you 've got ta do , she 's she 's got him , she 's got her introduced to Boaz and she tells him it 's a strange custom , one that 's perhaps even stranger in our eyes today but there er after the party , the great harvest supper she 's , the the they lie down in the barn together , they all just , they 're tired it 's , it 's , the party 's gone on into the wee hours of the morning , and there they just , they do n't bother going home , they lie down there in the barn together all of them and she says to Ruth what you must do according to the custom is , you go and you lie at the feet of Boaz and wait , just wait , and wait for him to respond to you . |
| 18 | For many mammals , the smell bond built up during the few hours after birth is crucial . |
| 19 | He did n't sleep , despite being tired , but sat up into the small hours with an object of study that he 'd previously dismissed as fanciful nonsense : Chant 's final letter . |
| 20 | At any gathering of the faithful , he will stay up until the small hours debating ideas with all and sundry , pulling people with different backgrounds into the same conversation . |
| 21 | ‘ Jenny and I sat up until the early hours chatting . ’ |
| 22 | Either way , a whole house-shell could be put up in a few hours by a few successive foam-formings of the main walls and pillars . |
| 23 | Do you have a rota system where if maybe six have got onto an appliance and there 's another fire comes up in a few hours that they can not turn ut again , or is it just a matter of whoever gets there first again ? |
| 24 | Two nights later he woke up in the small hours and lay there coldly . |
| 25 | It means getting up in the early hours to be ready to board a coach at around 6.30am that will transport them to the South Coast , then bring them back again , arriving home at around midnight . |
| 26 | I woke up in the early hours of the morning and it was still there — the first thing that come into my head . |
| 27 | I 'd been given a date for the baby to arrive but that came and went , but then I woke up in the early hours of the following Friday . |
| 28 | It is a medical fact that the body is at its lowest ebb between three and six in the morning and the ability to react , the ability to think when one is being woken up in the early hours of the morning erm are a consideration that we take into account when we have to mount an operation inside a premises . |
| 29 | Junior doctors across the region are to ballot on industrial action in protest at working up to a hundred hours a week . |
| 30 | After all , up to a few hours ago , he never knew of my existence . ’ |