Sentence examples for minutes before the appointed time from inspiring English sources

Then she massaged my head and feet, hard, and left, by my watch at least, five minutes before the appointed time.

He watched the street for many minutes before the appointed time, not wishing to be at the club first and then perhaps to be disappointed, and while he watched he played with pictures of June at the end of her working day getting ready somewhere and making her way from Debenhams to the club.

For example, a Ferguson court employee reported that the bench routinely starts hearing cases 30 minutes before the appointed time and then locks the doors to the building as early as five minutes after the official hour, a practice that could easily lead a defendant arriving even slightly late to receive an additional charge for failure to appear.

A few minutes past the appointed time, Ackman rushed into the conference room, trailed by an assistant who was listing a series of meetings for that day.

Tutors are not required to wait longer than 20 minutes past the appointed time and not required to work past the scheduled ending time.

Liz turns up a few minutes past the appointed time, in park-unfriendly high heels, trailing only her SPAD and another organiser.

Mr. Corvino confesses that he has "been cheating a bit," logging on before the appointed time.

Well before noon on Saturday, the appointed time of the rally, its basic shape was obvious.

A decision we began to regret the next morning when there was no sign of him at the appointed time, or for 20 minutes after it.

Some of these athletes are even showing up at the appointed time, for their 15 minutes that could potentially result in global infamy.

If she did not call back at the appointed time, the friend would wait 10 minutes and then call her.