Example sentences of "[be] [verb] down for the night " in BNC.

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1 It 's surprising how much louder they seem to get when you 're bedding down for the night .
2 Others , their duties finished , were settling down for the night on their pallets in front of the fires .
3 At dusk , passing through the countryside , everything was slowing down for the night .
4 Around me the camp was settling down for the night , bricks securing groundsheets , tent flaps tied tight , kerosene lamps hissing away their shadows .
5 On this occasion , everything was shut down for the night but in the morning when the armourers were about to start work , something went wrong .
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