Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] for the night " in BNC.
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1 | He stopped then , and picked her up , shouldering his way into the bedroom with the large double bed already turned down for the night . |
2 | She was disconcerted to find that she walked into what was the main bedroom , dominated by a four-poster bed already turned down for the night . |
3 | ‘ She 's a tough customer , ’ remarked Melissa when they had finally settled down for the night . |
4 | We had been conducting the German youths on tours of our favourite places in the city — to the bullring , the restaurants , the bars , the River Tormes , the Casa de Santa Teresa , the Antiguo Colegio Mayor de Iriandeses , San Martin ( where we were nearly locked in for the night ) and to the conventual church of San Esteban . |
5 | It was dark and well stormy by the time I got to the Aurora Corona Rest Home and the residents were probably battened down for the night . |