Example sentences of "at [adj] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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1 | I said I 'd meet with them at eleven o'clock to arrange the details . ’ |
2 | As soon as she could , she resumed the normal pattern of her life , getting up at 7.30 a.m. to prepare breakfast for the older children and get them ready for school . |
3 | The Bladon and Woodstock Lenten study group meets again on Monday evening in the new Methodist Hall at 7.30 pm to study chapter 3 of ‘ God of Surprises ’ by Fr Gerry Hughes , SJ . |
4 | There is a fitness to everything at Templeton , an order and a purpose , from the disposition of the crops and bridles in the tack room ( on a fine day Mrs Guest rises at 6.30 am to ride her horse , Opium , for an hour ) and the ranks of Maxwell riding boots in their bright felt CZG monogrammed pockets , to the vegetable gardens with their improbably neat and weedless battalions of vegetables , the closets with legions of colour-spectrum cashmeres and the table-top still lifes with flotillas of eighteenth-century snuff boxes . |
5 | That will require additional staff and we need to er look at that afterwards to see what effect that has on the er staffing budgets . |
6 | The day starts with our tail-lift bus leaving the centre at 9.30 am to pick up the clients with the help of 2 escorts . |
7 | As we work , we can look out of the window now and then and see the students doing physical exercises and practising sports for the sports day on Monday — they 're very keen on physical jerks here , and at Peking we used to be woken up at 7 a.m. to find the Chinese staff doing P.E . |
8 | His wife in her innocence told us he had been down at the steamer when we landed and had slipped out of sight , and next morning he had left at six o'clock to go and visit a small island North of Jura where he had never been known to go before . " |
9 | He slept immediately and deeply , and then got up at six a.m. to turn the television on and make the tea ready for when the man he lived with got in from work . |
10 | In the morning , the Whig mayor , John Eyles , arrived at St Mary 's at 10 a.m. to find the Tory mayor , Richard Bundy Franklin , had turned up two hours early and was installed in the mayor 's pew . |
11 | It had blown a gale in the early hours and I had been up with my torch at three o'clock to attend to the guy-ropes and check that the washing was still on the line : it was , but it had become red with dust . |
12 | I have also purchased a monograph of Parrots from a Mr Lear — When you and I are old men — how pleasing it will be to us to look at these together to quiz them all , and pass our We to upon them ! |
13 | The focal point of the Mega is the large outdoor bar overlooking the seafront which opens at 8.30 am to serve a good English breakfast and snacks throughout the day ; it closes well after midnight . |
14 | I 'll have to catch the 7 a.m. train to Nottingham , which means getting up at 5 a.m. to put the slap on and climb into the overalls . |
15 | What a keen lad is Frank , leaving the ‘ Pool at 5 am to come to our house and then all the way down there . |
16 | They were up at 5 am to travel by train to Elstree to get there by 7 am . |
17 | Assured of success by the dream of a warrior called Black Hair , twenty-eight warriors , including Ollokot , Looking Glass , Toohoolhoolzote , Two Moons and Bird Alighting , stealthily entered Howard 's camp at 3.30 a.m. to steal his horses . |
18 | At first I was n't sure at all where to begin . |
19 | They were , he said , ‘ cultural orphans ’ , and ‘ the children just did not know at all how to keep a house clean . |
20 | The event starts at 11.15 a.m. on May 3rd but participants should arrive at 11 o'clock to prepare for the three-mile trail . |
21 | Boxall and Tierney came back strongly in the second game , but the Blackmoor pair pulled away at 7–5 up to take the game 15–7 . |
22 | He had waited until the last moment on the Monday afternoon at 3 p.m. to tell her to go to the bank . |
23 | Daily nannies live approximately 150 miles from your house , and have to leave home at 3 a.m. to get to you by 9 . |
24 | The court had heard how his wife Margaret had woken in their house at 3 a.m. to find her husband crouching over her bed with what amounted to a home made gas chamber . |
25 | We got up at 6 a.m. to start making bacon and tomato butties for the Co-op Bakery and homeward-bound shift workers . |
26 | as oh that 's good , I feel that they 're now acid and alkalis , seem to be important , I 've done I 've put a lot of effort into them , maybe just a quick glance at those occasionally to keep up to date . |
27 | I hereby give notice that an inspector appointed by the Department of the Environment will attend at Bodicote House , Bodicote , Banbury on Thursday the 9th of March , 1989 at 10.00 a.m. to hold a local Inquiry into the above development which was refused for the reasons stated on the attached sheets marked ‘ Notice of Refusal of Permission for Development ’ . |
28 | Mathematics can be explained through the written word ‘ We went to the main road at 10.00 am to begin our traffic count . |
29 | Ant : You do n't like school discos " cos your mum turned up at the last one at nine o'clock to take you home , and Fungus announced it over the mike . |
30 | Stand by Tim here after the news update at five o'clock to take you home in style . |