Example sentences of "[prep] night [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Night after night they had lain out there in the soft , scented warmth , looking at the stars , or lighting candles stuck in Rufus 's wine bottles , eating and drinking , talking , hoping and happy . |
| 2 | Even critics who loved the pace and zest of the new films began to feel that night after night they were just sitting through one long gangster film . |
| 3 | Night after night they sat in the kitchen , adding frills of lace and clusters of tiny artificial pearls . |
| 4 | Night after night I sat on the sofa looking out to sea , the way Francis had . |
| 5 | Night after night I 'm left alone , |
| 6 | Night after night she 'd nag , and in the morning would peck his cheek affectionately if he walked by the cooker where she was frying up his bacon and eggs for breakfast . |
| 7 | At Dead of Night we 'll to the Bride-bed come , And sprinkle hallow 'd Dew-drops round the Room . |
| 8 | Getting to the Health Centre was a tedious business involving a bus and a clanking ride for a few stops on the underground and Erika was glad to find her way to it , jammed among the usual blocks of flats , although at that time of night they had rather a festive air with every window lighted . |
| 9 | If he was lucky he 'd find a cab there , though at this time of night they were n't frequent . |
| 10 | When I finally got through to Taff to enquire about what sort of night he had had , and if there had been many casualties during the barrage , his reply was rather matter of fact . |
| 11 | At this time of night he always enjoyed fish and chips , as opposed to a good , traditional Jewish meal , whether that be chicken soup with kneidlech ( a type of doughball ) fish latkes or potato latkes ( a latki being a fritter ) lokshen ( noodles ) or sandwiches made with baigels ( rolls ) and salmon . |
| 12 | In the quiet of night I lie in bed and hear the rattle of stones tumbling down this cliff , as , far below , the North American tectonic plate strains against the Gorda plate to its north and the Pacific plate to its west . |
| 13 | In the dead of night I crept down to the breakfast room , the nerve centre . |
| 14 | ‘ If you think I 'm going to let you turn out at this time of night you 've got another think coming . |
| 15 | Yes , you 're not me , oh I hate doing things with you this time of night you 've got no concentration have you ? |
| 16 | I know that if I broke down in my car , wherever I was in the country , whatever time of night it was , Pete would come to the rescue . |
| 17 | Even in the half-tones of night she could see the narrowing of those dangerous sapphire eyes , see sparks of desire bringing them to their full colour . |
| 18 | Because he sat at his desk from early morning until night he was not getting around to see what was happening among the ordinary people : and many of his henchmen were using their positions of power for personal or family advantage . |
| 19 | And in night we 're all |
| 20 | When I took my children to bed at night they would pause to look through a little knee-high window which lit the stairs . |
| 21 | Perhaps at night they shared them , talking of times long past . |
| 22 | At night they slowly sink . |
| 23 | At night they were lit by chandeliers and when the seats were converted beds they were covered in silk sheets and fine woollen blankets . |
| 24 | Most of the time their relationship was friendly and relaxed : in the daytime they went about their separate business and at night they came back to eat and sleep . |
| 25 | In those days the warriors fought by day — in the open — and at night they dressed one another 's wounds . |
| 26 | Bangladeshi babies are thought to be vulnerable , and they sleep close to other people both day and night ; at night they are either in the mother 's bed or in a cot next to it , a practice also reported by Farooqi et al . |
| 27 | At night they are particularly spectacular for they glow with a bright purple luminescence and if you touch them , ghostly waves of light pulsate along their slowly writhing arms . |
| 28 | At night they like to ride horses , and in the morning one can see that they have done so because the horses are exhausted … |
| 29 | Juniors must be paid appropriately for the hours that they work : if they are getting only three hours ' rest at night they are working the equivalent of a partial shift and should be paid accordingly . |
| 30 | In the hotels at night they provide ‘ Highland Evenings ’ — kilts , pipers , stout balladeers , male and female , and little girls in tartan dresses and white socks dancing like precise , muscled wraiths between wooden swords to the music of accordion , fiddle and piano . |