Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] the night " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Four days ’ time , and I 've got a big charity function to attend the night I get back . |
| 2 | Although the C-in-C had initially resisted the formation of the PFF , he gave the Commandant virtual carte blanche in the selection of airfields and staff ; the Command however , insisted that the Force operated the night it was formed , despite an adverse weather forecast . |
| 3 | He 'd arranged with the parish priest to stay the night here . |
| 4 | An article in the Stamford Mercury on 28 December 1950 claimed that St. Thomas ' Church was where Queen Eleanor 's funeral cortege stayed the night in December 1290 whilst on its journey to Westminster . |
| 5 | ‘ We had a branch meeting the night after the game and there were several complaints , ’ she added . |
| 6 | Steam rises off the ground , drying the fields as the morning sun tackles the night 's cold dew . |
| 7 | ‘ You were at the Council meeting the night the King died ? ’ |
| 8 | Streamers of smoke and ash streaked the night sky , obliterating most of the stars , though one of Karkason 's egg-shaped moons shone through , reproducing its image some way off in the shiny lava as an illusory silver pool , a distorted cool medallion . |
| 9 | A sudden boom followed in its wake , a new parachute flare splitting the night sky — a red target flare . |
| 10 | The youngster spent the night with foster parents and was due to be reunited with his grandparents , who live in Bebington , Wirral , later today . |
| 11 | He had been so throughout his school life and through college , managing to only just scrape through by handing in work started the night before it was due in . |
| 12 | Our thanks to all who attended and to the Sports and Social Committee for their hard work to make the night yet another success . |
| 13 | The weather for the Fox area : scattered heavy showers are gradually going to die away during the evening to leave the night dry with skies becoming mainly clear , so it will be rather cold with the temperature dropping to a dawn low of around five degrees celsius — that 's forty-one degrees fahrenheit . |
| 14 | In the distance Louise could hear the music from the rave and every now and then a shrill cry broke the night . |
| 15 | The hut seems the ideal place to stay the night if the storm holds , but I am not sure if I am allowed to : it is full of instructions which are all written in Icelandic . |
| 16 | The thrashing rain has made the goal of the homeless — a warm and dry place to spend the night — that much more difficult to achieve . |
| 17 | As you start to descend , you pass the Pousada dos Vinhaticos which is a very popular place to spend the night , particularly if you are on a walking holiday . |
| 18 | Although the valley looks an uncomfortable place to spend the night , it offers some protection from the wind . |
| 19 | He had been turned away from the door of a local clan chief and needed a place to spend the night . |
| 20 | However , a few managers , probably because of the pressure of work , had only looked at the business plan the night before . ’ |
| 21 | John Hacking stayed the night at home in bed . |
| 22 | Another segment displayed the night side of planet Karkason : a swell of blackness pricked with intermittent little red pimples which were the mouths of its active volcanos — those , at least , which were not currently cloaked by smoke … |
| 23 | Brad , I find out , ca n't greet me himself because he 's busy cleaning up the mess Deacon made the night before in his living room . |
| 24 | ‘ I do n't know how you can live here , ’ Graham said then winced as another explosion rocked the night . |
| 25 | The chance to spend the night with me ? ’ |
| 26 | On the day following the night she had spent with the gentle sisters , her father had stormed in and demanded that she return home , and she had replied , ‘ What ! |
| 27 | The sarcasm stung the night air . |
| 28 | However , whatever I know you to be , and whatever you 've done , I could n't let a woman spend the night out there alone . ’ |
| 29 | Our little grandson Mark , now two years old , came once a week to stay the night with us to delight us with his charming presence . |
| 30 | His letter contained an account of all the birds he had seen : a common goatsucker that flew gracefully round and round the ship for an hour , although it had ‘ in all probability passed the night on the wing ’ ; a female yellow wagtail that alighted only for a moment ; numerous petrels , five of which he killed for himself , and one for use in Mr Yarrell 's work ( a History of British Birds ) ; a flight of swallows , and several small turtle doves , which ‘ visited the ship [ and ] went off again immediately ’ ; a kestrel which was killed ‘ from off the Rigging ’ ; a short-eared owl which flew on board during the night , was caught and kept alive for several days ; and hundreds of shearwaters , which surrounded the ship off Madeira and the Salvage Rocks . |