Example sentences of "[adv prt] for the night " in BNC.
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| 31 | When he came in for the night some hours later he was still agitated and fretting . |
| 32 | We had been conducting the German youths on tours of our favourite places in the city — to the bullring , the restaurants , the bars , the River Tormes , the Casa de Santa Teresa , the Antiguo Colegio Mayor de Iriandeses , San Martin ( where we were nearly locked in for the night ) and to the conventual church of San Esteban . |
| 33 | Once we had sat together in that ‘ condemned ’ gallery until evening , and the sacristan , not knowing we were there , had nearly locked us in for the night . |
| 34 | and after you 've gorged yourself on all the fun and nightlife that Benitses has to offer , you can turn in for the night and leave it all behind . |
| 35 | Before turning in for the night I telephoned Fred Workman to say I would be back at my desk by mid-morning and would be covering the visit of Mr Gladstone Murray to our city , his meetings and his broadcast speech , for the next day 's evening edition . |
| 36 | The weather God had it in for the night patrol . |
| 37 | Core workers at Bhilai have regular employment , but for those on the periphery and in support industries , the work is casual , dangerous and ill-paid : factories , where women are locked in for the night ; opencast iron-ore mines where workers ' deaths by rock-falls are concealed by unscrupulous owners . |
| 38 | Our jolly attendant makes one more and final round , checking that we are all tucked in for the night . |
| 39 | To prevent hens laying outdoors and roosting in the trees , the report suggests that the birds be kept in their housing until mid-morning , and be presented with a main feed in-house in the evening before being shut in for the night . |
| 40 | Northumbrian villages , though protected to some extent by castles and garrisons such as those at Carlisle , Naworth , Harbottle and Norham , tended to be built in a sort of miniature bailey around a large square green which could be gated when cattle were brought in for the night . |
| 41 | Afraid she might doze off if she gave in to temptation and lay down on the bed , she sat down instead on the room 's only chair , and picked up a book , absorbing not a single word as she waited for the sounds that would mean he was turning in for the night . |
| 42 | ‘ I thought I 'd turn in for the night . ’ |
| 43 | I waited for another few seconds and then crossed the landing to my own flat where I completed my own process of locking myself in for the night . |
| 44 | The poor creep out of alleyways while the rich put the BMW in for the night and hit the rich over the head and steal the tyres . |
| 45 | Somewhere , cowbells sounded ; the animals had been brought in for the night , maybe . |
| 46 | Turning in for the night . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | Every other Friday , London club Rage moves over for the night , bringing its own choice of DJs . |
| 49 | The dog seems anxious to get the harness on ; indeed , all through the trip the dogs are always keen to pull and seem miserable when they are tied off for the night . |
| 50 | ‘ You can stay here until we close up for the night , ’ she said . |
| 51 | ‘ Early on in that , the hero 's homeless and somebody puts him up for the night . ’ |
| 52 | However , he was not thrown out , he was taken back to the station and locked up for the night . |
| 53 | When his father was tucked up for the night , the son would wander out into the garden and enjoy the cool air as a contrast to the fug of the sick-room . |
| 54 | After a long debate , they finally agreed to put us up for the night . |
| 55 | But she had insisted , and although the room was warm , and the kitchen stove had already been made up for the night , I had gone — yet it was a strange experience to me , and rather a frightening one , to have been persuaded by someone near to me into doing even so small a thing I felt to be hazardous . ) |
| 56 | For a whiff the strong white birds floated proudly there , diving , clearing the weed , and waddling over to the house when my father summoned them , for food and to be shut up for the night . |
| 57 | The incident must have shocked them , so logically they 'd rest up for the night . ’ |
| 58 | Nancy was able to come to Bedford and a kindly Methodist lady put her up for the night . |
| 59 | At the back of the house was a lock-up gaol and if any one caused any trouble they were locked up for the night , then transported the next morning by the local ‘ taxi ’ , which was a horse and cart , to the police station at Brough to be tried . |
| 60 | It would n't do any harm , either physically or financially , to have the two of them come up to London , possibly put them up for the night . |