Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] at night " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women were forbidden to work at night in any industry ( a move opposed by some feminists ) . |
| 2 | I only remembered it when I leaned forward or when I tried to sleep at night . |
| 3 | I stopped sleeping at night . |
| 4 | First , most of the fires where old people die happen at night . |
| 5 | Laura , who got a Nintendo Super Mario World computer games-system for Christmas last year , said she loved reading Roald Dahl classics such as ‘ The Big Friendly Giant ’ and ‘ Witches ’ before going to sleep at night . |
| 6 | Er , I 've been robbed and swindled , er I was burgled two months ago , my house was wrecked all my jewellery every thing taken simply because I had left my windows open slightly , now I 've got to sleep at night with all my windows closed and I do n't get a good nights sleep apart from feeling insecure any way and er the swindle er I trusted people and now I ca n't trust any body and that leaves you feeling very insecure . |
| 7 | Webs without stabilimenta are more delicate ; the spider tends to build at night and take the web down before dawn , recycling the silk next evening . |
| 8 | I had enjoyed Hope and the work we did at night , but I detested working at night , as I had never managed to sleep well during the day . |
| 9 | Playing with a puppy for a period beforehand often helps to make it want to sleep at night . |
| 10 | In Leeds , Newton Park Union Church not only had a seventy-foot tower but a clock which Leeds Corporation agreed to illuminate at night . |
| 11 | Course then he finished , they finished dredging at night on , at nineteen thirty two cos they said it was costing too much the did and erm they were building some new cranes down there , so I said to my father , and he was very friendly with the Harbourmaster , he said erm was there any chance of getting one of them cranes so when he went and saw the Harbourmaster he said no he said the boy do n't know nothing about electricity either so he said no nor did no other buggers he said they did n't know anything about it so he got the job . |
| 12 | Bagging experiments in Panama on Luehea seemanii ( Tiliaceae ) , which has ! lowers opening at night , suggestive of a nocturnal pollination syndrome , showed that diurnal visits by bees were responsible for higher numbers of fruits and seeds set . |
| 13 | But I like to walk at night . |
| 14 | Then someone dragged me along to learn meditation , which I found did most of the things advertised for it — you feel more focused and it reduces the interminable mental chatter that stops you getting to sleep at night . |
| 15 | I like to sleep at night , and applying " scorched earth " tactics in selling OTC stocks to some unsuspecting people makes me cringe . |
| 16 | He felt that if they could make travelling at night dangerous , the enemy would be forced to move in daylight , thus becoming targets for the RAF . |
| 17 | For women alone , it is not advisable to go sightseeing at night unless it is with a guided tour of nightspots . |
| 18 | Mrs Glews : Well you just got used to it really ; you did n't have to go at night if you did n't want to . |
| 19 | " It must have come at night , " said Bigwig . |
| 20 | Do you have to study at night then ? |
| 21 | He can last for hours during the day without needing to go to the toilet , so I ca n't understand why it 's continuing to happen at night . |
| 22 | ‘ So there am I spending the rest of that day with you in my thoughts , and getting barely any rest from thoughts of you when I try to sleep at night either . ’ |
| 23 | NELSON 'S Column is to be floodlit in a multi-million pound facelift for London 's Trafalgar Square so tourists can go sightseeing at night . |
| 24 | • If you can not get to sleep at night , stay in bed and rest . |
| 25 | For myself , I 'm not fussy , though the dogs do bark at night , do n't they ? |
| 26 | She continued to go at night for his fish and chips , and on return had to submit to the smelling of her breath . |
| 27 | The sea would start to roar at night , and the curlews would be hurled down the glen like dun-coloured bullets . |
| 28 | High and very far to the north I could just hear an aeroplane , only the third or fourth I had heard at night since coming to the island . |
| 29 | Roberts ' student days coincided with the depression and to finance his studies he had to work at night and on Saturdays in a bakery store . |
| 30 | I had grown more and more tired , energy seeped away and I had begun to sweat at night . |