Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] night " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the widow 's custom to leave a jug of milk for them each night after milking , she gave it as a gift in thanks , she said , for their support of an unfortunate woman on her own . |
| 2 | Speaking through an interpreter , Mr Usta said : ‘ As far as I can figure it out , one day before the operation the cheque was given by Dr Crockett , it was changed and the money given to me that night . ’ |
| 3 | Even so , if you consider the pressures contingent on me that night , you may not think I delude myself unduly if I go so far as to suggest that I did perhaps display , in the face of everything , at least in some modest degree a ‘ dignity ’ worthy of someone like Mr Marshall — or come to that , my father . |
| 4 | ‘ We talked about football but all he wanted to talk about was sex , ’ she said , before adding , ‘ I hear he 's not been scoring many goals recently and that 's why he left Arsenal , but all I can tell you is he certainly scored a hat-trick with me that night . ’ |
| 5 | When you told me that night in Harcourt Street those things about your private life , honest to God , Stevie , I was not able to eat my dinner . |
| 6 | But there was no light in the eyes of the girl that came home to me that night . |
| 7 | The dank smell of the water was not unpleasant , and for years the scent of la Sologne that enveloped me that night would pierce my memory : a combination of stagnant water , slime , wild mushrooms , wispy dry grasses , sand and well-hung game . |
| 8 | I can not make myself write down the things that Jekyll , with tears in his eyes , confessed to me that night . |
| 9 | ‘ No , but after what you told me I have a suspicion you kissed me that night at Ib 's Club deliberately in an effort to convince her you 'd found someone else to replace her in your heart and in your bed . ’ |
| 10 | His face was infuriatingly bland as he answered , ‘ Did n't you tell me that night when I gave you a lift home that your life fairly buzzed with — shall we say — events ? ’ |
| 11 | And er I mean it was all luck everything that sort of happened to me that night anyway I mean it it was n't so lucky for other people but I suppose most survivors have their their tale or so . |
| 12 | There was a nightmare awaiting me that night ! |
| 13 | Fortune smiled on me that night , and what could have been a disaster was averted . |
| 14 | ‘ No doubt why you honed in on me that night . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ So you 're not sorry you made love to me that night ? ’ |
| 16 | There are certain topics about which I have nothing to say , and they covered almost every one of them that night . |
| 17 | Now I do n't know whether they actually broke the door down in the end , but they did gain entrance to a flat very near us , erm and they had dogs with them that night . |
| 18 | But I 'd forgotten that you know , when we were wee kids , and you used to take them that night you know . |
| 19 | Paddy said , ‘ He 's been insulting me a' night . ’ |
| 20 | I was on my way down at three o'clock in the strange light of an ominous red dawn , back through a sleeping Fort William and on board for breakfast , weary but elated with my stolen night on the roof of Britain . |
| 21 | In The Spice-Box Of Earth he has a particularly pointed reference to it : ‘ Night , my old night … |
| 22 | My dark nights blazed with sleepless candles |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm late for work and it 's only my second night . ’ |
| 24 | And my wildest night s dream |
| 25 | In a sense I was pretty ill , because I would go out at eight o'clock in the evening , having recovered from the appalling hangover caused by my previous night 's activities in Cairo , and re-establish my illness by that night 's activities . ’ |
| 26 | When confiding the news to Greeves , he said , ‘ My long night talk with Dyson and Tolkien had a good deal to do with it . ’ |
| 27 | I 'm not really a party-goer , so just popped my head in to bid my good nights , and hit the road home about 1 a.m . |
| 28 | Mondays and Thursdays are my regular nights . |
| 29 | Perhaps I should have put a bit more water into my late night whisky ? |
| 30 | A chorus of denials greeted his question and , because of my sleepless night , I could confirm these . |