Example sentences of "[num] night [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 One night we did not sleep at all .
2 K. R. One night we had a strange sergeant in from the South End of the city who was filling in for our missing sergeant .
3 This was one night we were lucky and all our Lancasters came back safely .
4 One night we had a crash landing , when a plane from another air field had to land at Bourn in a bit of a hurry , having been shot up rather badly on the way back from Germany .
5 Many years later , in the mid-eighties , John Malkovich , who was rehearsing Death of a Salesman with Dustin , remarked , ‘ One night we were playing Trivial Pursuit .
6 One night we had sat up late while Mum and Dad were at The Golden Cup and had cut up old Christmas decorations into tiny squares and diamonds and then hidden them in envelopes .
7 This is certainly one night we 're going to enjoy , ’ said Rangers boss Dennis Booth .
8 One night we had a celebration and I got very drunk .
9 And in fact , one night we 'd gone to bed and left the key in the door , and the door unlocked , the key on the outside .
10 One night we were allowed alongside the pier .
11 One night we went swimming and bowling and towards the end we had a disco .
12 In the hotel we were staying at there were other schools , one night we organised a quiz against them which was fun .
13 When the first well Aye one night we were speaking about this .
14 But one night we tried to get the whole entire floor out on the landing .
15 and one night we were all
16 Then one night they all disappeared , 'cos t' farmers an' their wives kep' forgettin' to say thank you by puttin' out cake an' milk for yum .
17 One night they were coming through , a bit hilarious , and they said , ‘ Have a drink ’ .
18 One night they almost snapped an axle when Jed 's eyes fell shut and the car left the highway and began to lurch across dry yellow grass .
19 One night they were all sitting round the same as usual , in the kitchen this time , Pete and Tommy and a friend of Tommy 's , they were sitting round drinking the whisky Tommy 's friend had brought over when they heard footsteps in the yard .
20 One night they went to a Miami club .
21 One night they secretly told all employees , except Peter to leave early .
22 And of course when he was coming home in the middle of the night from afternoons , biking it and the one night they came he was coming home you know the finger post at Pelsall ?
23 One night they say everything is going well , and the next that the troops are boxed in somewhere . ’
24 In fact , in the middle of one night they came and moved my bed to another part of the hospital without saying a word to me .
25 And one night they had eloped .
26 One night they crept into our house but he had arranged for us to sleep on the roof whilst through a crack he could watch our sleeping chamber .
27 One night 'e got set about over refusin' ter chuck a fight .
28 One night he put a Belgian chocolate inside her and as it melted he licked away the cream .
29 Finally , Bill could n't stand it any longer and one night he just clung to Marjorie and cried .
30 One night he went to her house , poured paraffin through the letter-box and on to the front door , and set it alight .
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