Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] night " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would I stay on at night to go over some sales figures ? |
| 2 | ‘ And when I see him hobbling in at night , I am very proud of him . ’ |
| 3 | He says fortunately they were n't badly hurt but one girl has a collar and those with neck injuries will stay in over night . |
| 4 | Whereupon Stoker , gifted with Dublin 's malice , wrote instead a novel — about a bloodsucking , ennobled gentleman whose business was carried on at night , in or around grand dramatic buildings . |
| 5 | His father was staying in the same house , and did n't know I was staying there , so I used to creep in at night . |
| 6 | As soon as she lies down at night , this stuff runs from the sinus and |
| 7 | Then the walls will stand firm , tile stones will cling together , and the buildings will not fall down at night . " |
| 8 | says , you know , told her to come over at night you know |
| 9 | She says that there 's quite a lot of crime in the village , with cars driving through at night , break-in 's , etc . |
| 10 | You could fall out at night . ’ |
| 11 | The complex procedures were executed without a hitch : artillery positions were abandoned by the British and smoothly taken over by French units ; as British battalions moved out at night , their French replacements moved in — and all the while without any sign that the Germans recognized what they were about . |
| 12 | So many houses have been burgled here and old people are afraid to come out at night . |
| 13 | They should have somebody to come out at night really |
| 14 | And er I was informed like that er I I had d stop till six o'clock at night , that night , and I was informed that er I 'd got to come back at night and bring me men . |
| 15 | some of them forgot to come back at night . |
| 16 | Cattle stealing , a crime which was often carried out at night and for which in many cases there was no true evidence , was particularly noted for testimony delivered in a set manner . |
| 17 | Thefts were often carried out at night when there were no witnesses . |
| 18 | ‘ A very gallant and historical operation , the first torpedo attack ever to be carried out at night by the Royal Air Force . |
| 19 | And certain industrial processes , which relied on electrical machines had to be carried out at night when the supply was available , but in darkness to comply with blackout regulations . |
| 20 | To go out on the knocker was party activists ' jargon for canvassing , a thankless task usually carried out at night with the aid of a failing torch and a broken pencil . |
| 21 | You get the odd burglary , but you do n't worry about walking around at night . |
| 22 | ‘ Why not go and see him in the proper way instead of lurking around by night ? ’ |
| 23 | I mean , either you 've got ta hang around in the morning , or he 's got ta hang around at night . |
| 24 | Walking about at night in the streets of Calcutta and of necessity stepping over emaciated bodies too lethargic to move , or visiting refugee shacks in beautiful Hong Kong , or standing helplessly in the filthy slums of Kampala , always the same agony and anger assailed me as it did on that cold morning in Kiel . |
| 25 | Cutting bricks is another fault of Russ , it 's all commonsense actually if you think about it , I mean actually we 've drove round at night looking at people 's walls and things like that and some were absolutely appalling , they 've obviously paid money to have that done , so you , you , you can see it do n't have to be absolutely perfect |
| 26 | On the other hand , driving round at night , in the pouring rain , did n't appeal either . |
| 27 | And she used to come round at night and collect this stuff . |
| 28 | She found herself half listening to his gossip , her mind drifting away to Piers and Nicole , wondering whether the day they were spending together had spilled over into night , and whether her husband suspected anything about what was between them . |
| 29 | Or once the partition walls are down , you can create your own flexible dividers , with bookcases , shelving units , screens or screen-like structures like trellis , or even Murphy beds that let down at night from what looks like a panelled screen . |
| 30 | The miners tramped up the valleys in the morning , worked all day and came down at night . |