Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [adj] night " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went and got last night and I 'm saying to him , now give me your numbers . |
| 2 | There were a number of cake tins and Melanie opened one and found last night 's currant cake . |
| 3 | Graham smiled to himself , and recalled that night , another of Slater 's never-to-be-written plots . |
| 4 | The midwife rolled up her sleeves and toiled all night by the light of candles stuck in turnips , and just before dawn the baby was delivered on to the same straw mattress on which she had been conceived . |
| 5 | Cherry had floated home at five , having wowed them at Shuff 's and danced all night . |
| 6 | Lush , however , are in a celebratory mood — we were the only band to be paid and boasted all night that we 'd actually headlined Lollapalooza . |
| 7 | He immediately set off and arrived that night at Lesnes Abbey in Erith , with his household , and if we are to believe that he walked the whole way , it was a goodly walk for a bishop . |
| 8 | Charles himself escaped , passing through the outskirts of Kidderminster , and spent that night hiding in an oak tree in Boscobel on the border of Shropshire and Staffordshire . |
| 9 | I talked and talked that night , I remember , about all sorts of things . |
| 10 | He threw in a bucket of groundbait , a pint of maggots , and fished all night without a bite . |
| 11 | She screamed and screamed and screamed all night long . |
| 12 | But Eubank is keen to make Eubank v Benn II a reality next summer and insisted last night : ‘ Never mind that , Nigel deserves his million and he should be given the chance to redeem himself against me . ’ |
| 13 | Gooch who has Fletcher 's total support is nothing if not a fighter , however , and insisted last night : ‘ I 've no second thoughts about staying on as captain . ’ |
| 14 | After what we saw and felt last night , we can not be surprised that Sir Charles died of fright . |
| 15 | ON TUESDAY evening in the White House , while the camouflaged C-141s carried the paratroops of the 82nd Airborne through the Caribbean night towards Panama , President Bush held hands with his wife , smiled at his guests and sang Silent Night under the White House Christmas tree . |
| 16 | She could see that if the circumstances of their meeting had been happier they would have had a good drink of her mother 's secret stash of Bushmill 's and reminisced all night . |
| 17 | Dorothy Two cried all day and cried all night , and Margaret 's only respite was when she went to work , to the factory-cleaning job she had had to take . |
| 18 | He patted Jack 's shoulder and said good night while the others drank their whisky in an awkward silence . |
| 19 | It might not be in strain-on-your-meat-pies Trideocolor or go on all night like America 's bloody buggering 119 channels , but at least some nice bint like his old French teacher came on at ten-thirty and said good night as you drank your bloody buggering Ovaltine and waited for the shipping forecast . |
| 20 | Then the terms became known , and the day the treaty was sworn , they retired to the villa and drank all night to celebrate . |
| 21 | He was amongst the thousands who streamed into a clover field at Fog Lane , Didsbury , and waited all night to witness the finish of the first London-Manchester Flight . |
| 22 | The shares made their debut in October at 210p and closed last night at 227p , up a penny . |
| 23 | Fifty-eight year old Daniel Brady from Northfield Avenue was admitted to the Southern General suffering from head injuries , but died last night . |