Example sentences of "[prep] the night in " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is now getting dark as we settle for the night in the German slit trenches and I share a trench with three French Commandos . |
| 2 | When the rest of the crowd turned out at closing time and headed for the Floral Gardens with their carry-outs , Tich bedded down for the night in the public lavatory on the other side of the railway bridge . |
| 3 | You may have a bed for the night in return for an honest evening 's work , for help with cooking and cleaning and what must be prepared in my simple home . ’ |
| 4 | Late that afternoon we made a perfect three-point landing at the RCAF airstrip in Whitehorse , capital of the Yukon Territory , where I found shelter for the night in a bare but adequate room at the Whitehorse Hotel . |
| 5 | Some have expected to sleep with anyone they fancied who treated them to a night out — or , in the case of a man , expected bed for the night in return for dinner . |
| 6 | Later , under cover of darkness , they crept into the house , where Charles hid for the night in the attic . |
| 7 | I looked down at my sweet-smelling rosy babies , newly bathed and attired for the night in matching Christmas pyjamas and fluffy slippers . |
| 8 | At Myitkyina we camped out for the night in a mission schoolroom and early next morning managed to get a lift out to the airstrip two miles away . |
| 9 | I did actually get over to work for them in 1968–70 and 1971 , but this story I am referring to was in 1967 when I was just paying a visit and was given a bed for the night in the hostel . |
| 10 | He did indeed return , in disguise and as a fugitive , seeking shelter for the night in 1646 when the war was lost . |
| 11 | Now , as the army camped for the night in the shadow of the Worlds Edge Mountains , Gambo Hartstock , Chief Cook , prepared a feast to restore the spirits of the famished Halflings . |
| 12 | It led to an abandoned fishing hamlet called Hamningberg , where we camped for the night in a grassy field studded with interesting saxifrages and other flowers . |
| 13 | Their common lot was fierce parental discipline , even a man of a warm and kindly nature such as Samuel Pepys thought nothing of beating his 15-year-old maid with a broomstick , and locking her up for the night in his cellar , or whipping his boy-servant , or even boxing his clerk 's ears . |
| 14 | We make camp for the night in earshot of Crystal Rapid , which in recent years has flipped more boats , taken more lives , and humbled more boatmen than any other on the river . |
| 15 | They stopped for the night in a small village a day 's ride from the foot of the mountain . |
| 16 | We stop for the night in the middle of this scar tissue that will never heal . |
| 17 | Rex Mundi , Lazlo Woodbine and the two-headed offspring of a popular show-biz couple put up for the night in a room above the Tomorrowman Tavern . |
| 18 | He does n't bring them safely home and , you know , have them all securely ti er closed in for the night in safety and security , he leaves them in the wilderness . |
| 19 | Two teenagers have chosen to bed down for the night in a freezer as part of their training for an expedition to the Artic Circle , They hope that a good night of shivering in sub-zero temperatures will prepare them for the trip . |
| 20 | At night : prolonged or repeated attention during the night in connection with bodily functions ; or continual supervision throughout the night in order to avoid substantial danger to the disabled person or others . |
| 21 | Ziba 's 35-year-old brother , Meho , who worked at the dairy and fought with the Sarajevo defence force , had been killed during the night in a skirmish a few blocks away . |
| 22 | I then covered the tank completely ( newspapers were used ) as according to my information Cardinal tetras are ‘ dark spawners ’ , meaning that in their natural biotope spawning takes place during the night in low light intensities . |
| 23 | Better than enduring his fumbling during the night in the vain hope of satisfaction when the need was strong in her . |
| 24 | The pick-up truck was found abandoned during the night in Bristol , its radio stolen . |
| 25 | Three trouserless murderers fleeing through the night in a quite Cape Town suburb ? |
| 26 | They arranged guards through the night in case the boy was still hanging around and made another attempt to chase the horses off . |
| 27 | In fact , the uncertain times of Terris ' appearances have had such an effect on workmen that the Maintenance Department do not allow their staff to work in the station through the night in case the ghost interferes with their potentially dangerous work . |
| 28 | They waited through the night in the white corridor . |
| 29 | Police divers worked through the night in the Sharpness to Gloucester canal at Sharpness docks , recovering the woman 's body , after it was discovered half-submerged by walkers . |
| 30 | The Democratic party winner partied hard through the night in Little Rock after his message of change pulled in voters of all parties who feared the future and were fed up with Bush . |