Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] at night " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wanted to lash out at them : Vern did n't help me , I do n't need anyone to help me — he took me to this boat alone at night and we … |
| 2 | You know , boy , when you 're on the marsh alone at night , you imagine all kinds of things , voices calling , guns firing , soldiers marching ! |
| 3 | Because if you start messing your duvet up at night times it means that you do n't want to sleep underneath it cos it goes all scrunchy and horrible , and all the duvet bit comes out of the cover . |
| 4 | Then there would be the sudden explosions of violence late at night after the men had been drinking . |
| 5 | There is a lot to do in a dark car late at night besides staring across the roofs of other parked cars at flickering images on a screen . |
| 6 | Starting with breakfast at 7am , Kramer 's stays open until two in the morning : there are few better ways to unwind than browsing to Vivaldi or jazz late at night . |
| 7 | How she had a close friend at school who slept with men from the age of sixteen ; how she first went to France with this friend ; how she hated her first few terms at university ; how she went through a wild phase of drunken parties and desperate affairs ; how she plays the spinet late at night , when no one can hear , and fills the tired darkness with thin plunking antique counterpoint . |
| 8 | Only I heard him crying a bit lately at night time . |
| 9 | Cacti have deep and spreading roots , store water in their stems , capture water from the air , have a reduced surface area , and practise a form of photosynthesis which requires them to open their stomata only at night ( see p. 95 ) . |
| 10 | Many specialist desert plants practise a peculiar form of photosynthesis known as crassulacean acid metabolism ( CAM ) whereby they open their stomata only at night , when water loss is liable to be at a minimum . |
| 11 | Indeed , when he had solutions to problems , he sometimes went to the lab late at night and left his ideas on slips of paper for people to find in the morning — without knowing how they got there . |
| 12 | Of course , the others laughed at him but he insisted and said that at about the same time I thought I 'd seen Sir Bartholomew , a stranger had arrived in the village late at night and stopped at the ale-house for food and drink . |
| 13 | Robert Thomson , Scottish secretary of the GMB , said the study was prompted by persistent complaints from shiftworkers about difficulties in getting to and from work late at night , early in the morning and at weekends . |
| 14 | Tony said I need to do some exercise late at night . |
| 15 | She was a clever woman with obscure sources of energy who would suddenly start to garden by torchlight late at night , or walk wilfully all the way to Soho to buy vegetables at the times when the pin in her hipbone was especially painful . |
| 16 | As I say it 's when I take the bandage off at night . |
| 17 | She fancies her handsome American lodger like mad and , as he seems equally keen , she is devastated when another woman starts creeping into his room late at night . |
| 18 | Did he pause to note the whole lot , or did he have extraordinary recall , writing in his room late at night or next morning , or did he get the bones down on paper , and afterwards flesh out the rest with Johnson 's consultations ? |
| 19 | In Britton , the actions of the defendant took place late at night , and at some distance from the street , and the court took the view that these facts militated against calling this a distribution , although it said that had there been evidence that the documents were visible to whoever passed by , this might amount to publication , with which the particular defendant had not been charged . |
| 20 | There are also logistical problems because most violence and much interrogation takes place late at night . |
| 21 | If you go to a fancy-dress party as a Turkish dancer , you can expect a good time ; if you travel on public transport late at night in such a get-up it will probably cause nothing but trouble . |
| 22 | Lord Penrose , hearing the interdict late at night in his home , turned it down . |
| 23 | There was none of the constant supervision that you got in Holloway , just one officer on the house for twenty-two women , and no screw on at night , which absolutely amazed me . |
| 24 | Today , a thick layer of air blankets the Earth , filtering the sun 's rays during the day and trapping warmth in at night . |
| 25 | Gardeners are being asked to use bath-water in the garden and to water only at night to avoid losses through evaporation . |
| 26 | I , I got stuck in , I used to bring stuff home at night to work on and er there were no exams to sit then , you just sort or did it by , you either could or you could n't do it . |
| 27 | Theoretically the luminous trail should lead rescuers to the clearing even at night … but any sensible murderer would have obliterated the road end of it after he 'd found his own way out . |
| 28 | The offenders were passengers in a taxi late at night . |
| 29 | Residents nearby have complained about noise and disturbance late at night . |
| 30 | My hon. Friend the Member for Honiton ( Sir P. Emery ) said it was stupid to have such a debate late at night . |