Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [verb] for the night " in BNC.
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1 | His mission was going well , and he had even managed to save some precious time by arriving before the curfew was rung and the drawbridge raised for the night . |
2 | I waited a while , hidden in the shadows , watching the convent settle for the night . |
3 | The judge retires for the night to consider his sentence and returns the next day to jail Leonard McLean for eighteen months . |
4 | He could n't see Fernando Serra and his beautiful companion or the crew dispersing for the night . |
5 | The journey took only two nights and a day ; previously it had always taken three days , since the train stopped for the night at Dire Dawa and the Awash Station . |
6 | Now , as the army camped for the night in the shadow of the Worlds Edge Mountains , Gambo Hartstock , Chief Cook , prepared a feast to restore the spirits of the famished Halflings . |