Example sentences of "come at night " in BNC.
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| 1 | " It must have come at night , " said Bigwig . |
| 2 | The toilet was er at the back of what we used to call the brew house it was n't a kitchen it was a brew house , and er the , the toilet was at the back of the brew house adjacent to the old ash pit , which was an ash pit in those days it was filled up and when it was filled , they used to come at night and empty the ash pit wheel up the entry it might be there for three or four months and you got flies , bluebottles all sorts in the hot weather you know , I could n't try my shoes on sometimes , but er it was a bit , well I suppose in those days they used to take it for granted , it was a bit primitive it was n't the best five houses in the area , but er |
| 3 | If you came at night , like a broken king , |
| 4 | Where he had been a child , when the fox came at night around the barricaded chicken houses then the old bugger always scented the chicken house sides , left his stirik , boasted that he had been there . |
| 5 | It often came at night as I subconsciously relived the tensions of the previous evening 's crises . |
| 6 | ‘ But they came at night . |
| 7 | A man she had never seen before or since came at night . |
| 8 | ‘ From Armidel , ’ writes Johnson , ‘ we came at night to Coriatachan , a house very pleasantly situated between two brooks , with one of the highest hills of the island behind it . ’ |
| 9 | yes that was at quarter past eight Saturday morning and at ten to eight my aunty came at night and went fucking mad she said I want a dressing and I want it now , twelve hours ago I asked for that dressing and were n't done then came |
| 10 | She would go that afternoon to fetch water from the fountain , she liked doing that anyway , and nothing could come of it to hurt her , there were always plenty of others there , and she 'd give Tommaso a sign , so that he 'd come , come at night to find her , that was the way it was done , she 'd seen it , becks and smiles under half-dosed eyes as the water brimmed in the young women 's jars . |
| 11 | And you 'd , you 'd , you 'd be on call and the babies nearly always come at night . |