Example sentences of "[adv] eight o'clock " in BNC.
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| 1 | As yet it was only eight o'clock and the sun reluctant to leave without treating its worshippers to a pyrotechnic display of rose and gold flames that burnt up the whole western sky . |
| 2 | It was still only eight o'clock . |
| 3 | ‘ But it 's only eight o'clock ! ’ |
| 4 | It was only eight o'clock ; obviously I 'd conked out some time before everybody else , and they were still asleep ( I had heard appropriate log-sawing-like noises coming from Hamish and Tone 's room on my way back from the bathroom ) . |
| 5 | It 's only eight o'clock , for God 's sake ! ’ |
| 6 | its er its only eight o'clock |
| 7 | Normally eight o'clock . |
| 8 | It 's not eight o'clock . |
| 9 | It was nearly eight o'clock . |
| 10 | It was nearly eight o'clock of a sunny evening , still light , as light as afternoon , but cool as early June often is . |
| 11 | About eight o'clock in the evening he was summoned to her bedside . |
| 12 | Come for us about eight o'clock . ’ |
| 13 | It could only be about eight o'clock — her old-fashioned watch , unwound this morning , had stopped — but she felt as if she had been up all night , working to meet an insane deadline . |
| 14 | ‘ You were standing outside the University gates at about eight o'clock in the morning , last Wednesday . ’ |
| 15 | At about eight o'clock on the evening of 28 July , the Prince , disguised as Betty Burke and wearing a ‘ flower 'd linen apron gown ’ , escaped from the Benbecula rowed by six strong men and accompanied by Flora Macdonald and faithful Neil MacEachan . |
| 16 | After a good breakfast at about eight o'clock , I informed the switchboard staff that I was leaving . |
| 17 | A start was delayed until about eight o'clock . |
| 18 | That must have been about eight o'clock or a little earlier . |
| 19 | If , in the mornings you remember , we , we started to leave , leave quite early about eight o'clock , cos the other bus were late . |
| 20 | You used to be able to go along to a pottery , say , and say , ‘ What was going on here at about eight o'clock this morning ? ’ … |
| 21 | About eight o'clock on the eighth day I was told to pack my stuff up , because at seven o'clock the next morning I was going to Styal . |
| 22 | About eight o'clock they were getting very bad so I went to bed . |
| 23 | But it was a lovely moonlit night and we did n't leave , it was about eight o'clock at night when we left . |
| 24 | It 's her evening class in Oswestry ’ , and she said , ‘ About eight o'clock . |
| 25 | Erm that erm about erm me father coming down from the top of the ah ah well , this was January the thirty first , nineteen hundred and sixteen and er me father had been up to look after the horses , pigs etc you know , and about eight o'clock he came back and said to my mother that there was a big fire out at Wensbury Me mother and all of us went up there , and er we could see these blazing buildings over there , and er mother immediately said that 's no fire , that 's the Zeppelin 's , and er that 's what it turned out to be , of course . |
| 26 | Well when I was down at the er council that May , I told them there and then that er I 'm prepared to er let one of the council men come to our house , about eight o'clock in the morning , and then stop till ten and then come back again about two and wait till they come home from school which they would n't have come home from school , but they go across the road and come back again , double back as if they 'd been to school |
| 27 | " I thought about eight o'clock . |
| 28 | See they used to get the , they used t what they call they used to report for work at say quarter past seven in the morning and then they be at work at half past seven , but now of course they do n't now , they , I think they start about eight o'clock now . |
| 29 | About eight o'clock in the morning I would get up put on jodhpurs , shirt , tie and jeans and a jumper to protect my riding clothes . |
| 30 | He returned home about eight o'clock in the evening , feeling absolutely exhausted , and as he said , all he wanted to do was go to sleep . |