Example sentences of "about [adj] [adv] [prep] the morning " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You were standing outside the University gates at about eight o'clock in the morning , last Wednesday . ’ |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I used to go off about eight o'clock in the morning . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They can not get to sleep until about 2 o'clock in the morning or later , even when they go to bed much earlier . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Smith on the station , well , that involved a paper round starting round about six o'clock in the morning . |
| 10 | Up there about six o'clock in the morning , ad we managed to get him out them . |
| 11 | It does n't get light until about six o'clock in the morning and it gets dark |
| 12 | Eventually she did fall asleep and at about three o'clock in the morning I woke her up . |
| 13 | At about three o'clock in the morning we heard the sound of footsteps outside the bedroom . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | And he come down about three o'clock in the morning |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In practice , however , from about 5 o'clock in the morning onwards changes occur that can not be explained in this way . |
| 18 | For humans , as we have discussed in Chapter 1 , the body has been ‘ waking us up ’ since about 5 o'clock in the morning so that , by the time we normally wake , we are prepared for the rigours of a new day ; in the evening our body begins to ‘ tone us down ’ to prepare us for getting to sleep . |
| 19 | There is a level mist that drifts over the world at about 11 o'clock in the morning . |
| 20 | He considered that he gave Modigliani a fair deal : ‘ He came to my shop about ten o'clock in the morning . |
| 21 | On 17 September , a Thursday , at about ten o'clock in the morning , the Collector found himself in conversation with the Padre . |
| 22 | Well if I could choose I would go to bed at about two o'clock in the morning and get up at about ten o'clock in the morning . |
| 23 | It was about twelve o'clock in the morning . |
| 24 | We had to make and we used to have to take this milk , I used to take it about five o'clock in the morning . |
| 25 | On 8 May , about 8 o'clock in the morning , I was seated on the doorstep of my house . |
| 26 | About nine o'clock in the morning . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | They returned to Joan 's parents ' house and about four o'clock in the morning decided on two steps . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | About four o'clock in the morning , the following morning , a farmer was knocking on my door . |