Example sentences of "a night at " in BNC.

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1 •Self-employed sales rep Dean /verbar ; Lomas put in a night at a lake near his Sheffield home to bank this 22 lb mirror carp .
2 To spend a night at Bishopstrow House is to be pampered : it is elegant gracious , the warm , mosaicked swimming pool is often empty ; and playing on the indoor tennis court makes you feel worthy of eating quantities .
3 All 12 winners having met up the evening before for an Italian meal at The Campana in London 's West End , followed by a night at The Regent Crest Hotel , the second half of the group arrived bright and early at the studio , ready for their transformations the next day .
4 It began to feel like a night at the Marx Bros opera where you had to guess what Harpo was trying to say .
5 a night at the pictures with denice lewis
6 All a long way from a pint of mild and a bag of chips after a night at the City Varieties …
7 When we were invited to spend a night at sea with Jake and his companions , we accepted instantly .
8 Every fan has a personal memory , a wild weekend at Wembley , a night at the dancing , a rammy at the taxi-rank , and sooner or later a Scottish footballer staggers through the story adding a new level of absurdity to the proceedings .
9 Why not make your visit to the theatre extra special , and spend a night at one of Scarborough 's best hotels ?
10 A NIGHT AT THE OPERA
11 If you 're out of the Ritz bracket , Hazlitt 's is one London hotel which gives you more than just bed and bath for a night at reasonable rates .
12 A night at Hazlitt 's costs £132 for a suite , £86 for a double ; breakfast is £4.85 .
13 Earlier , as president of Business in the Community , he had attended presentations to business leaders at St James 's Palace , following a night at Kensington Palace in a separate suite to Princess Diana .
14 It would seem more useful to reserve that much over-used tag of ‘ middle-class ’ for those higher up the social and financial scale than Benjamin — those who lived in larger houses with servants , who sent their children to public schools and could afford a day at the races or a night at the opera , suitably dressed .
15 As she spent a night at his cotside in London 's Great Ormond Street Hospital , 40-year-old Andreas phoned .
16 HIDDEN COST : Sheets cost an extra £8.75 a night at the Holcombe Hotel
17 FILM star Emily Lloyd looks demure as she enjoys a night at the movies in Los Angeles with new boyfriend Nick Savalas .
18 SO HEARTWARMING : A night at the opera , left .
19 They spent their evenings together in a trattoria on the square beside the Ponte Milvio or down in Trastevere , before a couple of hours at his place , or half a night at her apartment .
20 Only once , last autumn , had there been an unnerving lift , a well-dressed man in a Mercedes , who had wanted Luke to drive on towards Devon with him , had offered him dinner and a night at a hotel , had put his hand high up on Luke 's thigh , and been altogether menacing .
21 ‘ Fancy a night at the flicks , Carrie , luv ? ’ another voice called out .
22 Third is the Midsummer Spectacle which includes a night at the opera .
23 An inevitable part of fund-raising is the charity ball : Clarissa recently hosted A Night At The Dogs at The Park Lane Hotel .
24 A work such as Judith Weir 's A Night At The Chinese Opera ( 1987 ) plays with narrative continuity and frames of reference in ways that tie it much more closely to modern literary devices than to any musical antecedents ; Harrison Birtwhistle 's The Mask of Orpheus ( 1986 ) uses all the dramatic devices and timeshifts an opera can muster to tease out the contradictory bundle of myths around the Orpheus legend .
25 Madhouse ( 15 ) did n't set cinema audiences on fire but good for a night at home .
26 This is better than a night at the Follies .
27 They were great fiddlers of long ago it 's not so long ago that I mind there was five fiddlers in our kitchen in Dalvaine , just each coming with a just to have a night at the fiddle .
28 A night at Fort William gave me a long awaited opportunity of making the ascent .
29 He sighed , took out another ten pound note and slid the money across the counter , calculating as he did so that he could have eaten adequately and drunk excessively for a fortnight in Lindos for what a night at the Skein of Geese had cost him .
30 ‘ When things got too hot for her at home with Margaret she 'd often spend a night at my flat cooling off . ’
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