Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv prt] for [art] night " in BNC.
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| 1 | So er I went down the Red Lion in Willenhall and fixed him up for a night 's dosh , did n't I , and the driver and then er I worked on , worked on and on and was able to get these er done for him to take back to fit this ship . |
| 2 | It would n't do any harm , either physically or financially , to have the two of them come up to London , possibly put them up for the night . |
| 3 | So I wrote to the Warden of Spurn Bird Observatory and booked myself in for a night . |
| 4 | On return to the farm in the late afternoon there was likely to be a further round of gossip and conversation while grooming the horses and bedding them down for the night . |
| 5 | The local police kindly agreed to come in on the act and a few off-duty policemen pretended to stalk the burglars and locked them up for the night at a disused police station at Ironbridge ! |
| 6 | After a long debate , they finally agreed to put us up for the night . |
| 7 | Once we had sat together in that ‘ condemned ’ gallery until evening , and the sacristan , not knowing we were there , had nearly locked us in for the night . |
| 8 | And was still wondering some half an hour later when Rosa had settled her down for the night but frustration , sharper than any pangs of hunger , was keeping her awake . |
| 9 | But at the same time I realise it means they 're basically trying to control my music which I did n't expect ’ As for taking him seriously , American composer Philip Glass offered to do a 12-inch remix of Hey Music Lover after Moore took him out for a night in the clubs . |
| 10 | If we can sort of get them out for a night or even if they get back at twelve . |
| 11 | Call your friends and see if they can put you up for the night . |
| 12 | ‘ Early on in that , the hero 's homeless and somebody puts him up for the night . ’ |
| 13 | Nancy was able to come to Bedford and a kindly Methodist lady put her up for the night . |
| 14 | Their common lot was fierce parental discipline , even a man of a warm and kindly nature such as Samuel Pepys thought nothing of beating his 15-year-old maid with a broomstick , and locking her up for the night in his cellar , or whipping his boy-servant , or even boxing his clerk 's ears . |
| 15 | The weather God had it in for the night patrol . |
| 16 | I waited for another few seconds and then crossed the landing to my own flat where I completed my own process of locking myself in for the night . |