Example sentences of "long night " in BNC.
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| 1 | A long night , he wrote . |
| 2 | When confiding the news to Greeves , he said , ‘ My long night talk with Dyson and Tolkien had a good deal to do with it . ’ |
| 3 | Similarly , Mr Yeltsin , like Mr Gorbachev , was born into a peasant family during the calamitous 1930s and came to political maturity during the first days of Khrushchev , when hope began to dawn after Stalin 's long night . |
| 4 | Cast your mind back to my description of the girl in the coffee bar , the one I gazed at earlier on in this long night , the coldest night of the year . |
| 5 | Relatively comfortable himself , Charsky suffered every moment of the long night with Kurz . |
| 6 | During the long night Charsky managed to find his voice ; he called out , ‘ Stefano ! ’ |
| 7 | The confessions , recriminations and bubbling bile of this long night 's drinking into dawn make for increasingly compulsive viewing . |
| 8 | Election ‘ 92 : Long night of party politics |
| 9 | His reappearance after a long night of uncertainty prompted scenes of rejoicing among Palestinians around the Middle East . |
| 10 | The mayor appealed to both sides to spare the city 's Turkish-era centre as terrified residents prepared for a long night in cellar shelters . |
| 11 | But a far better early evening occupation is to watch the sky slip from pink through mauve to deepest purple and reflect on what you 're missing : the shop-till-you-drop malls of Singapore or another long night on the Jumbo . |
| 12 | And now I must pack up and take the road ; you 'll be keeping me company on a long night march , although I know you 're asleep in our nice warm bed … |
| 13 | It was a long , long night . |
| 14 | It is not a question of being frightened of the dark ( although it can be pretty spooky on an out-of-the-way water ) , it is because I enjoy good company and a long night becomes more enjoyable with someone there to chat with ; to share the pleasure of catching big fish , or the lesser pleasure of blanking . |
| 15 | Do they know who lies beside them the long night through , under the overhanging cliffs recorded in the Guinness Book of Records as having the only sunless spot in Britain , summer or winter ? |
| 16 | After a long night of much study and little real sleep , he had to partake of breakfast with little appetite , really too tired to eat . |
| 17 | He thought , after his long night with Rab , swinging fortunes , to sleep the afternoon . |
| 18 | Rab , his illness , his long night 's play ; he still felt awful tired . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's going to be a long night , ’ he said , and he turned to Creed , who had just walked into the room , and smiled . |
| 20 | Some people find it impossible to sleep a wink on a long night journey in a train . |
| 21 | Once , after a long night spent putting up posters , Paul Simonon heated up the remainder of the flour and water paste on a rusty blade and ate it . |
| 22 | The failure of the PDPA 's vision of ‘ progress ’ may presage yet another long night for the Afghan people . |
| 23 | He saw the indiscreet movement of the CI5 man across the road , and guessed that the man 's attention had been distracted after the long night 's watch , and he had missed the car 's departure . |
| 24 | Crack of dawn after a long night … made himself coffee and got back to the station as the car was disappearing from view . |
| 25 | A Long Night 's Work |
| 26 | ‘ It was a long night 's work wasted . ’ |
| 27 | We are all somewhat the worse for wear after a long night in the hotel bar . |
| 28 | We were already worn down by the long night and another was almost unthinkable — our sleeping bags would be a frozen mass of down by evening . |
| 29 | He did not wait for the servants to open the doors , but just pushed through into the entrance hall , and then into the great ballroom where a score of painters and upholsterers were finishing a long night 's work during which they had transformed the ballroom into a silk-hung fantasy . |
| 30 | The obsessive vision that propels and sustains Birdy on his long night has a once-in-a-lifetime quality about it , a quirkiness that does not augur well for a successor … |