Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [adj] night " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is much easier just to come along one night and do what everyone else does . |
| 2 | So she started to cry and all then and said she said she was sorry , and right enough she stuck to the time that we allow her to , she 's come in last night dead on the button . |
| 3 | Got dressed ( glanced out of the window — hot again ) , made up ( Gothic again ) , sat on the edge of the bed and took out my envelope of dreams and scribbled down last night 's dream . |
| 4 | In signing off one night , at the end of the news , there was time to mention one or two events that were being held in the region . |
| 5 | I need n't be frightened of the mole-woman : she 'd be too busy making beds and totting up last night 's proceeds to wonder whether I was a truant from a Youth Custody Centre or a prostitute on an overnight break . |
| 6 | So we 'd wait up all night , follow the delivery van around and survive on the bread and milk we could swipe . |
| 7 | I have sat up all night attempting to watch the fish in the dark with the aid of a torch and the Orange Spot does venture out of the bogwood and hunts around for food . |
| 8 | Ruth thought her aunt would have sat up all night to prolong the time with them , but her uncle — who had tried bravely all day to behave as though nothing untoward was happening — put his arms around his wife 's shoulders and led her away to bed . |
| 9 | Dotty had sat up all night assuring him that Dawn was n't his responsibility . |
| 10 | She had sat up that night in her room , sitting on the bed scribbling notes on one of the Shelbourne 's notepads . |
| 11 | We found out last night that he , you know them things that you lift up ? |
| 12 | Walking around all night . |
| 13 | ‘ We 've been walking around all night . |
| 14 | Driving over the wide crossroads , for the second time , without another car to be seen , she had a vision of herself driving around all night . |
| 15 | If you had n't come round that night , none of this would have been allowed to happen — ’ |
| 16 | he 's either up the stairs well he came down one night right enough he was talking to his girl on the phone , she phones him through the week and er he was a bit depressed because he he had n't the money , he 's , he 's on the and he has n't really the money to give in for housekeeping plus try and get driving lessons and his daddy wo n't let him |
| 17 | Mm yes , erm since the home office secretary 's initiative it 's progressing quite well , with interest from certainly Bassett , Newark Stanton on the Wolds Tollerton and some other of the rural Coldfield areas were interested in going forward , Bassett looked very very interested , we went to a meeting last night , eighteen parish councils were represented , er Beckingham is going to be the first one , they 've got a special that lives there who 's gon na take up the work , Superintendent came down last night to do a circular of em a questionnaire around the village and parish to get find out what people want , and then go and see what the specials able to provide and meet the two together and get some sort of contractive agreement , he 'll work from the police house there , he 'll have access to the car , when it 's not being used by the rural officer , also his radio . |
| 18 | Well Terry came down last night . |
| 19 | You were n't really asleep when I came in last night , were you ? |
| 20 | Be nice to him — and to Swayne — and find out , if you can , what time Clarence came in last night . ’ |
| 21 | But when a man came in last night and threatened her with a knife , shop assistant Parveen Akhter decided enough was enough . |
| 22 | And of course , when I was down there Sunday , I turned round there and I said er , and he came in last night , again , he said you do n't wan na sell it ? |
| 23 | Now we need somebody , a ball winner in mid-field , he came in last night and he did the job . |
| 24 | FURY at the Bosnian death camps spilled over last night as fears of a new Holocaust haunted a horrified world . |
| 25 | In the City , numerous roads around the blast site at St Mary Axe remained cordoned off last night . |
| 26 | I thought that they were cribbing up last night 's French homework but it turns out that they were playing a game called ‘ Ouija ’ . |
| 27 | God knows why he woke up that night . |
| 28 | Woke up one night and I heard this voice er ca n't remember what you said now no hey ! |
| 29 | We were at at there , and I went with er with my father er on a Friday and we came back that night . |
| 30 | No Claire came out last night she 's fallen over and got a hole in them with a pair of woolly tights . |