Example sentences of "[adj] o'clock [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , the star compiles and writes the evening , and calls in a fellow thesp to direct : Petherbridge 's The Eight O'Clock Muse is staged by Peter Barkworth , John Sessions 's Napoleon — The American Story by Kenneth Branagh ( a promising young actor , in case you had n't heard ) . |
| 2 | But they got the bit about the eight o'clock milk ? ’ |
| 3 | white as the eight o'clock pill . |
| 4 | She had fingered the lamp and slid back an edge of the curtain on to a sun-flecked , eight o'clock day , searching for a clue . |
| 5 | And it was one of those such nights that at half past seven I 'd just got most of the fires set and ready to er er just on and going and I 'd half an hour to get everything straightened and ready for eight o'clock opening , and the door at the back went , which was where the office used to be . |
| 6 | To the rector 's unfeigned delight , the newcomer was among the very few communicants at the altar rail at the eight o'clock service on the following Sunday . |
| 7 | Yeah the eight thirty , the eight o'clock service is a lot more seems a lot more compact , I know you have n't got the hymns , but it seems to erm start , go on and finish , you know it |
| 8 | So he said Well we start at mm half past eight eight o'clock time usually . |
| 9 | THEATRE / The Eight O'Clock News — Riverside , W6 . |
| 10 | Like a best-man 's speech , Edward Petherbridge 's The Eight O'Clock News is an anecdotal monologue , often rambling , occasionally funny and inevitably far too long . |
| 11 | Er , if you want to er , develop that part of the argument , then by all means , let's do so , after the eight o'clock news . |
| 12 | Right , exactly sixty seconds to go , then I 'll bring you the eight o'clock news , then after that , we 'll continue our conversation on the main topics of the morning , according to you . |
| 13 | Right the eight o'clock news coming up , on this radio station . |
| 14 | If you 've just joined us for the eight o'clock news , as many people do , welcome . |
| 15 | did you get the eight o'clock news ? |
| 16 | ‘ Look , I 'm leaving at teatime — catching the eight o'clock flight . ’ |
| 17 | ON the eight o'clock radio news that Monday morning there was a substantial piece about an exciting police chase in Essex — understandably , on a rather lonely road . |
| 18 | His reflection was fed by information from a wide variety of sources — from the presidential staff at the Elysée , from his ministers , from officials and experts , from the abundant official documentation that passed across his desk , and from the media ( he read all the major French newspapers as well as the Daily Telegraph , the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , and the New York Herald Tribune , and his normal weekday routine always ended in time for the eight o'clock television news ) . |
| 19 | the eleven o'clock bus . |
| 20 | The connection time was very tight and there were some weeks when I rarely caught the 7 o'clock bus to Ferryhill and had to wait for the 7.15am bus which takes a longer route and delayed my arrival even more . |
| 21 | I arrived at 9.30 for the 10 o'clock appointment . |
| 22 | They do n't wake you up at six o'clock dad ! |
| 23 | Sandbags appeared in Whitehall and the blackout officially started , and at six o'clock Parliament assembled to hear Mr Chamberlain speak . |
| 24 | If she hurried she would catch him as he finished six o'clock mass . |
| 25 | I 've got to provide the the six o'clock feed . |
| 26 | A film you know , six o'clock film . |
| 27 | When Suzy failed to keep a six o'clock appointment her worried boss rang police , who later found her purse and straw hat . |
| 28 | Because of the Farm 's history , they used the occasion to mount a show of force , and to do so at 5pm , when children playing on the estate would be terrified by the raid , but when they could be sure of a good spot on the Six O'Clock News . |
| 29 | She moved to Tonight , The Nine O'Clock News and The Six O'Clock News before leaving current affairs to stand in for Wogan . |
| 30 | But , by the six o'clock news , that tarmac scene had been replaced by a news conference in the airport lounge with the usual polished platitudes . |