Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the early [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ian James walked in during the early hours of the morning and stole a leather jacket and a handbag from the hall . |
| 2 | Starting with a bank loan of £4,000 , Roddick had no time to sit down in the early years and draw up a grandiose mission of what her organisation should set out to achieve . |
| 3 | More seriously , Edward 's scheme to create a monopoly in the export of wool broke down in the early months of 1338 . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | Piper knows Benn is prone to run out of gas if he ca n't get through in the early rounds . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Only the Gittinses and the Hanmers were resident gentry from the second quarter of the sixteenth century through to the early years of the eighteenth century . |
| 8 | The trains time her life , crashing through fitful dreams at night , slackening off in the early hours . |
| 9 | There is nothing which cuts him off from the early sociologists in his basic assumptions about the importance of instincts and their interaction with men 's cultures . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | as if to make up for the early deaths of her sisters , she lived to a ripe old age , dying in the Almshouses at Dorking on 4 November 1855 , aged eighty-seven . |
| 12 | Ocean barriers opening up during the early phases of mammalian evolution had protected the marsupials in Australia and the lemurs and other unique animals of Madagascar . |
| 13 | ‘ Jenny and I sat up until the early hours chatting . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I woke up in the early hours of the morning and it was still there — the first thing that come into my head . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Children , having built up in the early stages of their lives an ‘ ego ideal ’ with whom they have had apparently satisfactory relationships , are for the rest of their lives attempting to transfer this ideal on to other people or organisations . |
| 19 | Attacks on the Beira corridor pipeline to Zimbabwe were stepped up in the early weeks of 1990 . |
| 20 | It , it 's really because as somebody gets older the risk gets very , very great , and it needs all the money that 's built up in the early years to sustain the risk , the charges for the risk later on , in the later years . |
| 21 | C. K. Allen has suggested , for example , that : ‘ It is evidently difficult for a generation brought up on the early editions of Dicey 's Law of the Constitution to relinquish the belief that droit administratif is the sinister embodiment of all the distempers of the commonwealth which the Rule of Law has so proudly repulsed . ’ |
| 22 | Up to the early years of the twentieth century , the typical pattern of foreign investment was of the portfolio type , where private capitalists individually , or through financial organizations , would invest funds in such foreign enterprises such as railways or mines or trading companies , and simply collect the dividends as they came in . |
| 23 | My brother and I were able to attend these from a very early age , and take part in them , though they would sometimes go on until the early hours of the morning . |
| 24 | Sometimes it would start first thing in the morning and go on until the early hours the next day , ’ she said . |
| 25 | Special trains were laid on in the early days , bringing musicians , singers and visitors . |
| 26 | Earlier yesterday Mr Patten had dismissed as a ‘ ridiculous rumour ’ a report that Hong Kong would be frozen out of the early stages of any Sino-British negotiations . |
| 27 | The Scot will be in good company when he sets out with the early starters among the 70 survivors today . |
| 28 | China 's vice-like grip was broken in the women 's singles with title favourite Deng Yaping going out in the early stages but the oriental domination was maintained by the World No 3 Hyum Jung Hwa from Korea who defeated the World No 12 Chen Jing from Taiwan 21–16 21–15 21–14 . |
| 29 | Evening distractions were few , although we did hear Sinead O'Connor blasting out in the early hours in one village , and we spent one evening joining in with some traditional dancing — the original Twist ! |
| 30 | His luck ran out in the early hours of March 4th when French Customs controls identified Sea Rover homing in towards French waters at Ushant after a passage to North Africa for another cargo . |