Example sentences of "a few nights [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A few nights ago I went round to my boyfriend 's house . |
| 2 | When your first telegram arrived at about two a.m. a few nights ago requesting destination for the modified aircraft , I thought that Stirling had spoken to B.G.S. here and fixed his requirements with you . |
| 3 | He was shaking in his shoes , but said as calmly as he could , ‘ You roughed up a man from Belfast a few nights ago . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ We took the kids out in Windsor a few nights ago and after the meal Ally sang , ‘ It 's now or never ’ to me by the castle . |
| 5 | And a few nights ago , in London , I did what that man over there just did . ’ |
| 6 | We wat , did you see that film up , that was on a few nights ago , some time last week I think ? |
| 7 | A few nights later , Susan found a message on her answering machine : it was Seth , but his voice was hoarse , threatening her with ‘ loathsome ’ things , sexual violence . |
| 8 | I never forgot his face , and sure enough a few nights later his aircraft was one of those that failed to return . |
| 9 | A few nights later , I took three or four at once , to see what happened . |
| 10 | A few nights later the job was done . |
| 11 | She came back to it all a few nights later . |
| 12 | He was still recuperating at home a few nights later when a rustling from the rafters above his bed proved to be yet another python which had entered the village and was lying in wait . |
| 13 | A few nights later she went with Maureen to Benediction , and as she glanced at her sister , deep in prayer , Anne was conscious of how much Maureen 's faith meant to her , and how her own well-meant interference might have severed that lifeline for her beloved sister . |
| 14 | A few nights later I was woken by a noise at about two in the morning . |
| 15 | Dining a few nights later at the Beefsteak , I was reminded by a bright spark that Home Secretaries scarcely ever become Prime Ministers . |
| 16 | We also went a few nights later to Stavanger , and I do believe that my bomb-aimer at least claimed he saw , through broken cloud , what he took to be hangars on the airfield at Stavanger and these were bombed . |
| 17 | For Travis called at Leith 's and Sebastian 's flat a few nights later — ‘ Just passing and thought I 'd pop in , ’ so he said , which fooled nobody . |
| 18 | She was n't afraid of the dark ; but now , after a few nights here , she was beginning to admit to herself that she did n't really like such a depth of blackness . |
| 19 | And er we find that those of us who are working with homeless people are increasingly simply trying to find some kind of shelter for a few nights rather than actually trying to find a home for people . |
| 20 | We just go down for a bit of practice a few nights before . ’ |
| 21 | At this year 's Reading Festival , Smashing Pumpkins came in slightly below par , perhaps due to the rigours of touring , but , a few nights before , in the more intimate setting of Newcastle 's Riverside , they clean blew the roof off with an energetic gig that showed that some members had an appreciation of heavy metal but knew how to drag it breathing heavily into the '90s . |
| 22 | Then the figure spoke again , and Jim 's heart leapt like he would never have thought possible a few nights earlier , as he recognised the nasal drawl of the red-neck trucker called Jube . |