Example sentences of "[vb past] one night " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tim tried one night of Soho strip clubs , but the smell of smoke and the avid faces of the watchers who all seemed much older than himself depressed him , and he left without trying any of phone numbers which annoyed the clerk . |
| 2 | and I phoned one night late and , it was late and I phoned for I wanted her to come home , and I was it was quarter to twelve and said she 's not home yet . |
| 3 | On return to Hungary we stopped one night in Satu Mare , the last big frontier town in Rumania . |
| 4 | One kicker-out-of-loads , Iain Crawford , enlisted for the effort by his mother-in-law and obediently incurious about the cargo he was handling , remembered how the crew camped one night at Ilopango , cooking a barbecue beside the crates of plastic explosives ; and a group of men approached them , led by ‘ Ambassador Duemling of the State Department ’ , and winked at what they were doing . |
| 5 | Clare still swapped one night a week off with Stephanie and reported subsequent events to Gilda , who now managed the shoe shop : occasionally she visited Clare for an evening meal . |
| 6 | Nibbles is an interesting one that I played one night and I was going cor ! |
| 7 | I woke one night to hear noises downstairs . |
| 8 | Another dealer owed a few hundred pounds by the director of a firm he had just left , drove one night with some friends to his house , where they flung bricks through every window . |
| 9 | ‘ We 're shit , ’ he proclaimed one night on early evening television . |
| 10 | ‘ That was no carver 's or miniaturist 's craft , but black magic , for that was the castle in which I lived , and the forests and meadows round it were mine , where I roamed freely , with my beloved brother , until the black artist came one night seeking shelter from foul weather . |
| 11 | We cultivated maize and water melons and the crops were just about ripe when the army came one night without warning and destroyed everything . |
| 12 | He came one night when he was supposed to be elsewhere , and there he was , smiling and chatting all round . |
| 13 | • Clark Gable , on the other hand , caused vest sales to drop drastically when he took off his shirt in ‘ It Happened One Night ’ , to reveal a completely bare torso . |
| 14 | It happened one night when Derek and I were down there . |
| 15 | And when I recall the shattering consequences of what happened one night a month or so later , I think of Hamlet , saying ‘ When sorrows come , they come not single spies , But in battalions . ’ |
| 16 | It is interesting to compare Ferguson 's reaction to Vidor 's film with his reaction at much the same time to the newly released It Happened One Night , which Frank Capra had directed for Columbia . |
| 17 | William Troy in the Nation was similarly unable to find the right words to explain the greatness of It Happened One Night and he suggested that ‘ a good photoplay , like a good book or a good piece of music , remains always something of a miracle ’ and that ‘ beyond a certain point the mind is forced to bow down before its own inability to unravel and put together again all the parts of the shining and imponderable whole with which it is dealing ’ . |
| 18 | More than any other film , It Happened One Night had pointed the way forward , but , greatly to the surprise of many critics , problem films kept on appearing . |
| 19 | It was a period of penury such that James and his team spent one night in Pau furtively thieving back the petrol that had been stolen from their car and eventually hitchhiking back home via Le Havre , with no food on the way — and it brought out in James qualities of tenacity that he had n't really suspected in himself . |
| 20 | He spent one night in New York and then , nursing a cold which he had contracted on the boat , he went straight to Boston — with his relatives , in particular his two sisters and his late brother 's family , and with old friends like Emily Hale and Djuna Barnes , he could still enjoy an affectionate intimacy which he seemed to lack in England . |
| 21 | Another case study of an elderly lady in poor health who slept very little , by Ray Meddis and associates , found that her sleep was light and fitful and , over a period of a week , she only achieved one night 's proper sleep . |
| 22 | I got some more sedatives in anticipation , and eventually had to turn him out when he decided one night that enough was enough and kicked several large holes in the stable wall . |
| 23 | After a week of that I decided one night to leave in the morning . |
| 24 | Eventually she just asked one night , ‘ Are you gay ? ’ and I said I was . |
| 25 | Before I left the Lock and I was on nights the sirens went one night and this was before they stopped going down the shelter we went down the air raid shelter that is , now , is the cellar to the club at Bloxwich Lock 's club ! |
| 26 | As a young back-bencher , Irwin dreamed one night of meeting Lloyd George in a train carrying them both back from campaigning at a bye-election . |
| 27 | ‘ He dreamed one night that the way from Al Ain to Abu Dhabi would be green with branches of trees coming over to give shade . |
| 28 | mind you , not that I 'd lite , the fire , not the glow that 's what you did one night put the |
| 29 | I overdosed one night and ended up in hospital . |
| 30 | ‘ What we must hope and pray for , me boys , ’ he said one night as they dined alone on salad and cold meat , Ellie being out at a concert , ‘ is for a state of some permanence . |