Example sentences of "four [adv] [prep] the morning " in BNC.

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1 On Fridays we 'd often go to the Royal College of Art where they used to have these great shows which went on till three or four o'clock in the morning .
2 ‘ It 's four o'clock in the morning , ’ she told herself .
3 In apparent agreement with this idea , some subjects appeared to benefit from continual advances of their sleep/wake rhythm ( as though they were continually flying eastward ) or by being woken temporarily at about four o'clock in the morning to receive a burst of bright light for about an hour .
4 It took him till nearly four o'clock in the morning .
5 I waited and waited for him at the points and eventually met him about three or four o'clock in the morning for the first time .
6 S. H. The worst part of the job is when you had to go round that beat at four o'clock in the morning and it 's teeming with rain .
7 By four o'clock in the morning , when Alice Mair woke with a small despairing cry from her nightmare , the wind was rising .
8 They returned to Joan 's parents ' house and about four o'clock in the morning decided on two steps .
9 From his youth , says Bishop Buckeridge , ‘ he was totally addicted to the study of good letters ’ , and at Merchant Taylors School ‘ he accounted that time lost that he spent not on his studies , arising at four o'clock in the morning , and studying late into the night ’ .
10 He was a bit of a character — he 'd have to get up at about four o'clock in the morning to cycle to work , and during the war , he was hurtling along during a blackout when suddenly the road disappeared and he went careering into a bomb crater , about 50 feet wide and 40 feet deep .
11 It did not surprise him at all that the Chairman 's answer should come , hand-delivered , to his villa at four o'clock in the morning , and that the rendezvous would be away from Baghdad .
12 The local name comes from the loud braying call which is always at its loudest at four o'clock in the morning , just when you are looking for a bit more sleep after a tiring day .
13 If the purity of the motive was not here in question , we can sorrowfully contrast the fate of Alfred Berry , an unfortunate young man of 18 years from Camden whose idea of mischievous fun was to make an annoying din in the open streets between three and four o'clock in the morning in late December 1862 .
14 It was four o'clock in the morning .
15 Four o'clock in the morning she used to move about .
16 ‘ After all , Gav , I can just stay up till your drinking pals have decided to head home , or Norris 's card school chums finally drag themselves away , or crash out and snore on the Richter scale , whatever ; the fun rarely extends beyond three or four o'clock in the morning … why , that would leave me a good four or five hours ’ sleep before an early lecture . ’
17 ‘ But at four o'clock in the morning ! ’ said Bob .
18 She dressed in her best , encouraged by Marian and Izz , who sent her on her way at four o'clock in the morning .
19 The younger members of the crew may have got some sleep that night but the older ones , who should have known better , arrived back at four o'clock in the morning , with half the town and a piper who , traditionally , concluded the night 's festivities on the pier .
20 " If you can give me any news of Mr. Andrew , please ring at four o'clock in the morning .
21 I hardly think that I 'm able to run about banging doors at four o'clock in the morning .
22 About four o'clock in the morning , the following morning , a farmer was knocking on my door .
23 ‘ I remember a lot of three and four o'clock in the morning phone calls , ’ recalled Lester .
24 ABC television memorably noted that " Sarah Brightman could n't act scared if she was on the New York subway at four o'clock in the morning " ; while Frank Rich of the New York Times — the feared " butcher of Broadway " — remarked that she " simulates fear and affection alike by screwing her face into bug-eyed , chipmunk-like poses " , and that Lloyd Webber 's score was " long on pop professionalism , and impoverished of artistic personality and passion " .
25 Erm when we were telephoned at home and called out to report to Police Station erm I ca n't remember the exact time that we got to Police Station and it would have been er somewhere in the region of four o'clock in the morning .
26 Good about everything , good salesmen , erm , but I think we do have to take er , Jack 's thoughts on that , that really perhaps we are begging the question when we , just forget ourselves and keep going till three , four o'clock in the morning whatever it is , and then we 'll get in the car and drive home .
27 Oh it was a hard working night for all the women and the dances went on t four o'clock in the morning and a wedding nearly went on all night .
28 Oh , you were n't like that years ago though were you , when he was stopping out at bloody four o'clock in the morning I come round Joy , I 've come round
29 I said you 've got your kids , you 've got a grandchild , of course her grandchild was born that night in the middle of the night , no , in the , four o'clock in the morning New Year 's Day
30 Geoff does , four o'clock in the morning !
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