Example sentences of "about [num] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | About eight o'clock in the evening he was summoned to her bedside . |
| 4 | ‘ You were standing outside the University gates at about eight o'clock in the morning , last Wednesday . ’ |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I think about eight o'clock in the evening at home . |
| 9 | I used to go off about eight o'clock in the morning . |
| 10 | She used to go out er about eight o'clock in the morning , Tuesday mornings , not Wednesday , cos we had a boy then , we used to call him Frank . |
| 11 | Coleridge himself long believed that he was born on 20 October , but his father , with a clergyman 's attention to such matters , recorded in the parish register that the true date was 21 October ‘ about eleven o'clock in the forenoon ’ . |
| 12 | They can not get to sleep until about 2 o'clock in the morning or later , even when they go to bed much earlier . |
| 13 | At about 2 o'clock in the morning of Monday we were awakened by terrific shouting in the street and , when we looked out , the sky was just a red glow . |
| 14 | In Sussex about 250,000 out of a total of 380,000 hectares ( some 65 per cent. ) are devoted to agriculture ( including small farm woodlands , agricultural buildings , etc . ) . |
| 15 | By contrast , even if we manage to get to sleep at about 10 o'clock in the morning the sleep is likely to be shorter and broken . |
| 16 | Smith on the station , well , that involved a paper round starting round about six o'clock in the morning . |
| 17 | Up there about six o'clock in the morning , ad we managed to get him out them . |
| 18 | About six o'clock in the evening I think it was . |
| 19 | It does n't get light until about six o'clock in the morning and it gets dark |
| 20 | About 1.38 am on the 11th they got a reading of 1300°C . |
| 21 | ‘ Well , ’ began Enfield , ‘ I was coming home about three o'clock on a black winter morning , when suddenly I saw two people . |
| 22 | Eventually she did fall asleep and at about three o'clock in the morning I woke her up . |
| 23 | At about three o'clock in the afternoon , I was standing at the door of the inn when I saw a blind man coming along the road . |
| 24 | If you take your morning one about nine o'clock , you could quite easily take one about three o'clock in the afternoon . |
| 25 | At about three o'clock in the morning we heard the sound of footsteps outside the bedroom . |
| 26 | I remember me getting up about three o'clock in the morning I heard the wind and I got up to look at the stack yard and start to put er bits of pit props and that into the nets and and and the wind was getting that strong the pit props was going flying over me head and I gave it up and made for and it 's certainly not a very high door at Greenspot but or a very big door but it took me all my time to get the door closed . |
| 27 | And he come down about three o'clock in the morning |
| 28 | It was one of these jobs we were hoping It was n't too big a load but it was a houseload , we were hoping to get mi finished for the mid-afternoon , about three o'clock in the afternoon , or four perhaps . |
| 29 | About 5 o'clock on the morning of 8th October , 1835 , he was one of a group of men working underground when the rock above them began to ‘ groan and grumble ’ , indicating to the experienced miners that it was settling and about to fall on top of them . |
| 30 | In practice , however , from about 5 o'clock in the morning onwards changes occur that can not be explained in this way . |