Example sentences of "[verb] up at night " in BNC.
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| 1 | Colds settle in the nose which may stuff up at night with much sneezing and blows out mucus and often blood ; nosebleeds with every cold . |
| 2 | My grandfather taught me necessary skills : how to tip my tea into my saucer and blow waves across it until it was cool enough to drink ; how to cut an orange in half crossways and pack a sugar lump into each half and then suck out orange-juice and sugar together ; how to walk along the crazy-paving garden path without stepping On any of the cracks or a tiger would get you ; how to butter the loaf and then clutch it to your chest and then shave off paper-thin slices ; what saint to pray to when you woke up at night and saw the devil moving behind the curtains . |
| 3 | Dane O'Hara probably still wakes up at night and sees Ferguson oscillating in front of him . |
| 4 | Waking up at night I ca n't actually differentiate between the two very easily . |
| 5 | Alexandra , Lyddy and Janet took it in turns to sit up at night with her . |
| 6 | She got up at night and she set off towards the city all by herself , travelling through the forest . |
| 7 | She got up at night to look at her asleep , to see that she lacked nothing . |
| 8 | The important thing is that if you get up at night to have a wee , you beware that you may feel a little bit lightheaded , so you get up slowly , sit on the edge of the bed , you stand up slowly , and when you 're happy you 're off , off you go . |
| 9 | She frequently gets up at night , thinking it is daytime , and wanders round the flat . |
| 10 | They watched Marie as she trailed down the steps by the artificial waterfall that was lit up at night with pink and green floodlights . |
| 11 | I think that generally they came in because they liked the style erm they , they , usually had er , in their minds what they wanted and because they go round and see all these fittings at night , I mean our shop used to be all the fittings were lit up at night so that you could have a look in , erm it 's very confusing I think when you , you 've got an awful lot of fittings in , in , in a shop and , and all of them lit , decide which one 's gon na to be the best for your house , but I think most of them already had ideas what , what sort of fitting they wanted and of course we used to do a great deal of |
| 12 | It permits homes to be locked up at night , although it states : ‘ On no account should children be locked into their bedrooms at night whatever their age and competence . ’ |
| 13 | I wake up at night and I think of maybe some kid we 've been dealing with . |
| 14 | Sometimes I wake up at night , crying for loneliness . |
| 15 | I still wake up at night and think about Nelly Woodhouse . |
| 16 | And as Gabriel walked away , the Mason was heard to say loudly , ‘ I hope you keep him tied up at night . |
| 17 | General Robert Schweitzer , who told this story to the congressional lawyers , was a trifle envious that after 58 years of daily Mass and ‘ desperate messages to the Almighty ’ he himself had never been woken up at night ‘ with lights on the wall ’ and a vision of saving Nicaragua ; he was not sure Ms Studeley had either , but he gave her the benefit of the doubt . |
| 18 | Sum up at night what thou hast done by day |
| 19 | Always avoid species where flowers close up at night or when the sun goes in ; variegated varieties , whose rich colours will fade and leaves gradually green over in persistent shade , and ‘ long-day ’ flowers such as iris , rudbeckia and nigella whose flowering depends absolutely on prolonged sunlight . |
| 20 | The Marines suffer from burning sun and torrential rain ; flares sent up at night emit an eerie glow . |
| 21 | Windows lit up at night attract potential customers . |
| 22 | And it goes and when it goes off you have ten seconds to get up at night then |
| 23 | When he was not ducking and weaving through the cedar brush with this curious hat on his head , Gould was sitting up at night on the Appletree Flats waiting to ambush a tawny-shouldered podargus or crouching next to a hole in the ground close to Stephen 's garden gate waiting for the appearance of an unfamiliar little mouse . |
| 24 | " Who locks up at night , Gerard ? " |
| 25 | I envy people who do n't bother to wash up at night and leave stuff all over the place — I really enjoy going to their houses . |
| 26 | Oh yeah , and his dog , yeah likes it as well yeah , they used to leave a tray out for him every night , yeah when it was closing time the dog knew every time it closed , it wo , I mean if they closed at lunchtime it would n't come down it would only come down when they closed up at night . |
| 27 | I give in to this , since the weather 's behaving like it usually does at the seaside : drizzling all day and clearing up at night . |