The game wasn't over in the East until minutes before midnight.
He got us away just before midnight and by then.
Both were expected to be in place before midnight, he said.
And thanks to the time difference, we could still be in bed before midnight.
When they came back, just before midnight, the job was done.
And that's just before midnight, when the party really gets going.
It was by now only an hour or two before midnight.
Most of them had some special reason for being back in Chicago before midnight.
Both sides wanted to get a deal done before midnight tonight.
He left the house about nine and came back before midnight.
"You should have at least two hundred more by midnight."
By midnight, I wouldn't be able to hold her in any longer.
By midnight, he and everybody else would have believed almost anything.
But he hadn't come home by midnight, and she gave up trying to watch the late show.
They had to report back by midnight at the latest.
I want to be back at the post by midnight.
However, those of you who have nothing important to say should've gone by midnight.
When he hadn't called by midnight, she went to bed.
By midnight, according to the medical evidence, she was dead.
By midnight, his friends had left for home, while he found himself in line.
