Example sentences of "at about [adj] p.m. " in BNC.
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| 1 | At about 7.30 p.m. , after two and a half hours ' sleep curled up on the floor of the trench , I made my way out of the orchard and on to the road . |
| 2 | Case White , as the invasion was codenamed , was aborted by a signal issued at about 7.30 p.m. on August 25 , because Mussolini and Ciano , when it came to it , summoned up the courage to tell Hitler the truth at last . |
| 3 | Isa , the chairman of the local Assembly executive committee , began proceedings at about 5.30 p.m. ; at sunset the audience moved to the east end of the playground and , the glowing sky colouring their white clothes , said their prayers ; at about 7.30 Isa adjourned the meeting . |
| 4 | At about 5.30 p.m. , over twenty-seven hours into his detention and after four extended bouts of questioning , he confessed to the robbery . |
| 5 | David Cordery , operations manager for Oxford , told The Bookseller that the robbery happened at about 5.30 p.m. when two staff were cashing up at one of the shop 's three tills . |
| 6 | ‘ Information given to us states that Mr Evans 's motorcar was seen parked in Glenfair Road just before its junction with Boundary Drive at about eight-forty p.m. on the evening of Saturday last . ’ |
| 7 | The court heard that four soldiers — Paul Fraser , Ian Smith , Brian Sim and Sean Bland — had arrived at the pub at about 10.40 p.m. in Fraser 's white Volkswagen Sirocco and stayed there watching the title fight between boxers Chris Ewbank and Michael Watson on the television . |
| 8 | In an attack on a non-military target , a bomb planted several feet inside the doorway of the exclusive Carlton Club in central London , frequented by leading Conservative Party figures , exploded at about 8.30 p.m. on June 25 , injuring a porter seriously and wounding several others , and causing a fire and extensive damage . |
| 9 | Detectives say someone on the main road most have seen the rope being tied in place at about 8.30 p.m. last night . |
| 10 | At about 7 p.m. , the temperature rises more than 6CC above ambient and there is a strong smell like ether and chloroform attractive to chrysomelid beetles , which push their way to the stigmas , pollinating them . |
| 11 | 2 tax inspectors and a bailiff visited the terraced house in Sidney Street at about 4.00 p.m. , apparently to repossess Jones ' van for non-payment of tax . |
| 12 | In 1803 , after there had been no rain for several months , it began to rain incessantly and at about 8 p.m. on 9 October the rivers burst their banks . |
| 13 | The DCAC had earlier called off a proposal token strike by shirt-factory workers , but at about 3 p.m. about one thousand workers , mostly young women from some half-dozen factories , left work and marched up Strand Road , through Guildhall Square and via Shipquay Street to the Diamond . |
| 14 | At 1 p.m. on the twenty-sixth , explosions loud enough to be heard well over 150 kilometres away were taking place at intervals of about ten minutes , and at about 2 p.m. an English ship , 120 kilometres from the scene , sighted a black cloud , rising to an altitude estimated to be about twenty-five kilometres above the volcano . |
| 15 | Question : What about the previous afternoon , at about 2 p.m. ? |
| 16 | It was into this barrow , under cover of the night , at about seven p.m. , that the body was put , covered with plastic sacks , themselves in turn covered with a fair sprinkling of autumn leaves , before being wheeled across the low wooden bridge there , across a well-worn path through the field , and across to the swiftly flowing current of the River Cherwell , where unceremoniously the body was tipped into the water . |
| 17 | The two bombs were attached to the hull of the Rainbow Warrior , berthed at Marsden Wharf , at around 8.30 p.m. and at about 9.30 p.m. a man wearing a red woollen hat was seen abandoning a Zodiac dinghy near the Outboard Boating Club in Hobson 's Bay and then climbing up the embankment to Tamaki Drive where he was picked up and driven off in a camper van . |
| 18 | While we were waiting at about 10.30 p.m. to go on night shift , we were subjected to a certain amount of what would now be called ‘ sexual harassment ’ , which we learned to parry quite neatly ; but the arrangement did seem a little thoughtless on the part of the B.P. Transport Department . |
| 19 | The battle lasted for several hours and at about 10.30 p.m. there was a further clash as a crowd charged the police and was dispersed by a counter-charge . |
| 20 | On Mum 's return , at about 6 p.m. , Sam would be beaming , showing her ‘ all the work he had done ’ — and putting his hand out for ‘ a few more pennies , Ma . ’ |