Example sentences of "[adj] night when [art] " in BNC.

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1 She said an assault at the St Chad 's Drive pub on the Friday night was followed by a confrontation with the bouncers the following night when a gun was produced .
2 She said an assault at the St Chad 's Drive pub on the Friday night was followed by a confrontation with the bouncers the following night when a gun was produced .
3 Consequently there was little they could do early that night when a mammoth sea caught them dangerously broached-to , but the buoyancy of Mae West life jackets wedged in the bow and stern kept the waterlogged canoe afloat till the storm eased around midnight — some 24 hours after it blew up .
4 The skipper was preparing to take her out to a second rendezvous arranged for that night when the lookouts saw the grey canoe with a lone paddler .
5 It was a pity , that ; he would have liked to have heard her groan again , perhaps even to cry out as she had that night when The Man had played his games with her .
6 They could n't put a cloth over it , you know , like I had that night when the Corporal rushed , parang drawn , into my room at the O. T. X-Ray .
7 But then came the awful night when the Station Master was waiting for Peter in the station yard .
8 Mrs Wood spends about an hour each night when the children are asleep talking about all this to her own mother .
9 Anxious to be seen as having made all the right decisions , she added with a little pride , ‘ There were n't no need for a nurse , 'cause I looked after the mistress myself … stayed up all night when the fever took her … mopped her brow and talked nice and low ‘ til she come through it .
10 Back in the early 60's , David and a group called The Lower Third would travel to gigs in an old ambulance , and Dana Gillespie recalls the story she heard of them ‘ scoring ’ one night when the van was parked in Piccadilly Circus .
11 She certainly needed all her expertise one night when the children made their entrance for a skipping rope routine .
12 News of this reached Gawthorpe and a watch was set up , but one night when the vigil had become somewhat relaxed the Chickenley men managed to saw part way through before being disturbed .
13 I read it late one night when the wind was screaming round the house , blowing snow against all the windows , and sometimes I was afraid .
14 One night when the last streamers had shivered away against the dawn sky , leaving its heaven blue merely bland , she walked away from her colony and stood at the furthest tip of the ice sheet .
15 You have been casting them from that very first night when the gods sent you to haunt me ! ’
16 Like Quinn , this was one of his best displays on a murky night when no Northern Ireland player could be faulted for effort .
17 You had , he says , to be careful not to fumigate on a foggy night when the air was too heavy to let the fumes drift away .
18 Jonathan came in the other night when the news was on .
19 DEFENDING champions Ajax Amsterdam were knocked out of the UEFA Cup last night when a 1–0 home victory was not enough to claw back a 4–2 first leg deficit to French club Auxerre in the quarter-finals .
20 DEVASTATION The hellish scene faced by emergency services in Amsterdam last night when a huge El Al jumbo jet ripped through suburban apartment blocks after losing two of its four engines soon after taking off from the city
21 They were seized shortly after 8 p.m. last night when a BMW heading south on the M5 motorway was stopped in a routine police check between Junctions 13 and 14 near Stinchcombe .
22 They were seized shortly after 8 p.m. last night when a BMW heading south on the M5 motorway was stopped in a routine police check between Junctions 13 and 14 near Stinchcombe .
23 The series of events began at the CastleCourt shopping complex at teatime last night when a woman , with her one-year-old child , was putting her shopping in the back of her Ford Granada .
24 PATIENTS were stranded in their beds as a torrent of flood water swept through a North Wales hospital last night when a freak rain storm brought havoc to parts of North Wales .
25 Sansom , capped 86 times for England , was still talking to friends in the players ' bar at Stockport County last night when the rest of the squad left on the team bus after their 2-1 aggregate victory .
26 Ministerial jumpiness was further underlined last night when the junior energy minister , Mr Peter Morrison , demanded a public loyalty oath from all minsters .
27 THE Government successfully defended the forced repatriation of Vietnam boat people last night when the Commons approved a supplementary estimate by 309 votes to 219 , a majority of 90 , with two Tory backbenchers rebelling .
28 AN ATTEMPT by Mr John Taylor to become the first black Tory MP failed last night when the Liberal Democrats overturned a 4,896 Conservative majority to win Cheltenham .
29 BORIS Yeltsin , the Russian President , suffered two serious blows last night when the country 's highest parliament voted to strip him of direct control of the government by July , and Ukraine made clear it would not ratify a landmark arms treaty between the United States and the former Soviet Union .
30 REIGNING Super Bowl champions the Washington Redskins had their hopes of successfully defending their crown kept alive last night when the Green Bay Packers were hammered 27-7 by the Minnesota Vikings .
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