Example sentences of "[vb pp] at night " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1940 , the school was badly damaged by fire — not by enemy action , but ( it seems ) by the carelessness of fire-watchers installed at night to forestall such action . |
| 2 | The grapes are harvested at night and processed within 15 minutes , enhancing the preservation of fruit flavours . |
| 3 | We have never paddled at night and are a little apprehensive but soon learn what we have been missing . |
| 4 | " It must have come at night , " said Bigwig . |
| 5 | Since a python 's skin begins to deteriorate in quality once it has grown to about fifteen feet the largest are left alone , which is just as well as each one must be caught at night , alive and by hand , with a lamp to attract them from their lairs , and at least four men to get them into the sack afterwards . |
| 6 | No inmate , however , was to be confined at night without being provided with a bed and other conveniences . |
| 7 | HOTELS : A place where TRAVELLING HUMANS are parked at night . |
| 8 | The simple façade was enlivened at night by thin coloured neon lights and the interior had elegant shop-fittings and modern furnishings . |
| 9 | I would say that if a person is locked up from that time at night , there 's circumstances , their perhaps observation for their own safety , erm any body else that can be trusted at night sanitation are not locked in , they have the facilities to go to the toilet during the night , I mean this person that 's just said must of obviously been ob observation or was locked up for a reason . |
| 10 | These are automatically silenced at night and may be silenced manually at any time by operating levers which are neatly and unobtrusively located on the hand-crafted dial . |
| 11 | They will not go into the store where the eager young men and women modelling their smocks will sell them something expensive , attractive and useful that you have long tossed and turned at night in the lust to have in your possession . |
| 12 | Everything you need is available here from the tennis court which is floodlit at night so that you need n't play in the heat of the day , to the restaurants — the Timanfaya restaurant which serves snacks and full meals at discounted prices and the Indian restaurant . |
| 13 | Indeed , the visitor could be forgiven for being a little disappointed , although when it is floodlit at night the theatre very much comes to life . |
| 14 | Starting on dry land , there are 12 hard tennis courts , floodlit at night , two open-air squash courts and a daily programme of games and activities ranging from aerobics and trampolining to volleyball , basketball and table tennis . |
| 15 | The swimming pool is floodlit at night and there is a covered barbecue area with al fresco dining facilities for your use . |
| 16 | The church which Kinloch also provided has in its churchyard a flagstaff from which permanently flies the saltire or St Andrew 's cross , floodlit at night , recalling the vision of a white cross against blue sky which supposedly inspired combined Pictish and Scottish forces to victory against the invading King Athelstan and later became the national flag . |
| 17 | Then their bodies were cremated at night to conceal the evidence . |
| 18 | Astronomy may be a calling ; it is also a day-to-day job ( albeit done at night ) . |
| 19 | This is n't a common practice , however , because of the noise , and it 's unlikely to be done at night . |
| 20 | Travelling and ferrying loads to the mountain was done at night to make use of the best snow conditions , and Bonington reports that there was still sufficient light at this time of year for night work . |
| 21 | Now , I was never a good getter-up but I do have the excuse that I often retire very late , particularly if I have a visitor in the afternoon and need to get a bit of washing or something done at night when it is possible to get on with it without interruptions . |
| 22 | ‘ This guy was shot at night , on a deserted bit of the wharf . |
| 23 | The head of the deceased then appears on a television screen which is tastefully draped in white silk and discreetly illuminated at night . |
| 24 | The Cut — 500 feet wide from shore to shore , 45 feet deep , illuminated at night by a blaze of red and white lights — is of a size to dwarf the vessels passing through it . |
| 25 | Their pool was oval-shaped and illuminated at night by carriage-lamps , fixed to the posts of the pergola which surrounded it . |
| 26 | ‘ Then all we can do is keep our eyes open for the next couple of days , and you see that your doors are locked and bolted at night . ’ |
| 27 | As the tracks were not completed at West Croydon , such transfers proved rather difficult and cars had to be moved at night , using temporary rails to bridge the gap at the top of Tamworth Road . |
| 28 | Even if the child were ‘ demand fed ’ , its environment and parents ' sleep would tend to decrease the likelihood of its waking and being fed at night in comparison with the daytime . |
| 29 | The fish were fed at night , before turning on the lights . |
| 30 | Supply flights had to be made at night ; the aircraft had no radar or proper navigation equipment , could not get information even about the weather , and had to find drop zones in thick jungle by the light or smoke of bonfires . |