Example sentences of "quarter to nine " in BNC.
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| 1 | She arrived at work at a quarter to nine and went straight to the studio . |
| 2 | Constable Campbell rounded the corner into Sandyford Place about quarter to nine . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's only quarter to nine , ’ the man said . |
| 4 | She usually arrived about a quarter to nine , greeted her colleague , read her correspondence , and was then prepared to face the assembled school . |
| 5 | Look ; it 's a quarter to nine now , you 'll be here till a quarter to ten fiddling around . |
| 6 | Quarter to nine . |
| 7 | You 've got to be at school by quarter to nine in the morning . |
| 8 | At quarter to nine he sauntered up the street to the phone-booth . |
| 9 | At a quarter to nine precisely , Father Johnson entered the church and began to celebrate Mass before the little group of kneeling worshippers . |
| 10 | I was sitting in front of my easel at about quarter to nine , doing preliminary tests on a little panel-picture of a City church ; Radio 3 in the background was churning out something by one of those Bachs who were n't Bach . |
| 11 | It was quarter to nine in the morning and it was Oliver speaking . |
| 12 | It was only a quarter to nine ; not night-time at all . |
| 13 | And er quarter to eight er quarter to nine in the morning , all the commuters are running around half asleep , wish they 'd got up a bit earlier but they did n't . |
| 14 | Now in nineteen er nineteen fifteen , the the of course the War 'd started and I can remember this so well because the day after me birthday er there was a raid , a Zeppelin raid on and I saw this Zeppelin and that day the thirty first of January nineteen fifteen when this raid was , I wen I went to work at six in the morning and I finished work at quarter to nine at night . |
| 15 | On that particular day I I was coming home from work and it were quarter to nine , I 'd just finished work . |
| 16 | And I 'd been there from six in the morning till quarter to nine . |
| 17 | The worst moment of all , he thought , had been at a quarter to nine that morning , when he had been roused from the bottom depths of heavy , dream-tangled sleep by the door bell , and when , having stumbled across the room , still not knowing where he was or what was happening , he had found Mrs. Mounce at the door , asking if she could do any shopping for them . |
| 18 | ‘ I turned up at the party pretty much at the start , I think , around a quarter to nine . |
| 19 | " His father says that Lorrimer rang him at a quarter to nine . |
| 20 | Quarter to nine . |
| 21 | If what he told Rose was true , he could n't have been at the belvedere after about a quarter to nine . |
| 22 | At a quarter to nine he was joined in his office by Kersey . |
| 23 | She 'd had bad times before she got the flat , but with the flat and the job she felt herself well off She worked from six in the morning to a quarter to nine , getting the offices clean and tidy for the staff who came in at nine o'clock , and for two hours in the evening , from six-thirty to eight-thirty . |
| 24 | Somewhere downstairs a clock struck a quarter to nine . |
| 25 | Erm a reminder to you that the lines will open at a quarter to nine on erm York six four one six four one tomorrow morning if er you have points you 'd like to make . |
| 26 | Well I tried at quarter to nine the day that there there is talking about it and er I was n't allowed on the phone . |
| 27 | But as far as aim is with , on a typical day , say if I get out of the depot at quarter to nine , if you like , and look at today 's string , I go to Derby . |
| 28 | At quarter to nine I came down and was up to my knees in water |
| 29 | Come quarter to nine each evening they split up . |
| 30 | She 's just like a week ago she was she did the manager 's job and , she drops she brings Joshua down here for about quarter to nine , then she goes back up to Stop Hill with the girls |