Example sentences of "[vb past] for [art] night " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , there was always Agnes , and I lived for the nights when I joined the Ralembergs for their simple meal . |
| 2 | We stopped for the night a mile down the road just out of sight . |
| 3 | They stopped for the night in a small village a day 's ride from the foot of the mountain . |
| 4 | We crossed into Germany and stopped for the night at a service station between Speyer and Karlsruhe . |
| 5 | It was raining by the time they stopped for the night . |
| 6 | Consequently Paige 's nerves were stretched as tight as a drum by the time they stopped for the night on the banks of one of the streams they had waded through . |
| 7 | The drama began as Joe and his girlfriend Claire Gallagher , 19 , headed for a night out in the West End on Friday . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Then , closing all , the chains of the bridge rattled evenly through their pulleys , and Parfois withdrew for the night into its impregnable walls . |
| 10 | Later , under cover of darkness , they crept into the house , where Charles hid for the night in the attic . |
| 11 | We only broke for the night on the promise of a further meeting next day together with social security officials . |
| 12 | She looked forward to his usual visit that evening , but he did not come , and it was Comfort who appeared at half-past nine to remake Julia 's bed and see that she had everything she needed for the night . |
| 13 | Anxious about his prospects of liberation , the slave Moschos went for a night of incubation to the temple and had a dream in which the divine pair Amphiaraus and Hygieia ordered him to write down what he had seen and to set it up in stone by the altar . |
| 14 | She was about to ask if he 'd be back before she left for the night , when the door closed behind him . |
| 15 | But shame was there in vast amounts as , sleepless , she waited for the night to pass . |
| 16 | But Robin still hungered for a night on the traps : so we found ourselves at the Harold Park Hotel , the crowds milling into the street , silhouetted against the lights of the adjacent Greyhound track . |
| 17 | ‘ Tired by a long and laborious day 's walk under a burning sun , I frequently encamped for the night by the side of a river , a natural pond , or a water-hole , and before retiring to rest not unfrequently stretched my weary body on the river 's bank ; while thus reposing , the surface of the water was often disturbed by the little concentric circles formed by the Ornithorhynchus [ duck-billed platypus ] , or perhaps an Echnidna [ anteater ] came trotting up towards me . |
| 18 | In January 1816 ‘ the new Piano Forte came — an excellent instrument ’ ; the piano tuner came in April , stayed for the night , and accompanied Jane on her violin . |
| 19 | Now after the er there was a incident at erm the er engine shed , er the stabling of the locomotive was transferred away , erm and it used to travel at the end of the day over to the er or , or er engine shed , where it er stayed for the stayed for the night . |
| 20 | The windows were mere arrow-slits now blocked by wooden shutters ; the air was so damp with a pervasive chill that Queen Margaret insisted fires be lit in her rooms before she retired for the night . |
| 21 | We drove all day and at 10.00pm reached our destination — a small village called Waldsee — just before the camp site closed for the night . |