Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv prt] at night " in BNC.
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1 | She says that there 's quite a lot of crime in the village , with cars driving through at night , break-in 's , etc . |
2 | The Marines suffer from burning sun and torrential rain ; flares sent up at night emit an eerie glow . |
3 | Children pick up the eggs from contaminated food or pets , and the worms hatch out at night . |
4 | while enthusiasts like Richard Roberts of cheltenham and his co driver Paul Hunter are packing their tent to sleep in at night … |
5 | Mr Welt sneaked about at night and removed all the wooden furniture in the school and replaced it with metal furniture . |
6 | Now he 'd sit and stare at those same walls made transparent by all the lights left on at night . |
7 | People stay in at night to avoid the shadows of the city streets . |
8 | ‘ Bill , what would you do if one of the gang went out at night and told someone all about us , and what we 'd done ? |
9 | He very wealthy , but oh dear dear he was a , he was a , tyrannical I should call him , I know for a fact that he used to before the choir walked in at night he 'd have his watch out in his hand and they 'd start at exactly the same time . |
10 | Against this learned account , I have to weigh what it felt like at the time , and the message of the history that was delivered up to me in small doses : that not being hungry and having a bed to sleep in at night , we had a good childhood , were better than other people , were lucky little girls . |
11 | She must have told me once that I was lucky to have a warm bed to lie in at night . |
12 | Windows lit up at night attract potential customers . |
13 | I continue to be surprised all those little panes of glass have n't been smashed in , but a metal door comes down at night and the neighbourhood is full of tourists anyway . |
14 | The Auchtergaven men broke in at night with their faces blacked and knives in their hands . |
15 | ‘ As parents , when your children go out at night you just worry yourself sick whether they 're going to come back , ’ says Glennis . |
16 | I would n't wan na do it tomorrow , well only later afternoon but I mean if I have to put ear plugs in at night to get some sleep because of them , surely the authorities have got ta say something about that |
17 | Always avoid species where flowers close up at night or when the sun goes in ; variegated varieties , whose rich colours will fade and leaves gradually green over in persistent shade , and ‘ long-day ’ flowers such as iris , rudbeckia and nigella whose flowering depends absolutely on prolonged sunlight . |
18 | And it goes and when it goes off you have ten seconds to get up at night then |
19 | The complex procedures were executed without a hitch : artillery positions were abandoned by the British and smoothly taken over by French units ; as British battalions moved out at night , their French replacements moved in — and all the while without any sign that the Germans recognized what they were about . |
20 | Could women go out at night without courting rape ? |
21 | Arabian oryx also lick the dew that may accumulate on rocks and on each others ' hair , as the humid air from the Arabian Sea rolls in at night . |
22 | A few telephones had direct outside lines when the switchboard closed down at night . |
23 | And we let the fire go out at night . |
24 | So the woman from the first House went out at night and burnt the rival House to the ground . |
25 | The heavy makeup melting even in the air-conditioning , the legless beggar who sleeps under the office porch and cleans their shoes in gratitude , the slums you can not observe because no roads go through the swamps and whose inhabitants do not exist for the State because the census officials can not reach them , the bomb-carriers serving as flower-pots , the boys selling themselves to the rich English ex-public schoolboys , the girls selling themselves to the fat German tourists , the police raping the boys and the girls they are protecting in the police-stations , the Committee officers boasting to Kate about the elegant jerk-offs in the massage parlours , their ever-decorative ever-bored wives boasting to Kate about their jewellery , the Thai girls saving up for eye and breast jobs , the luxury hotels where the high-class white whores hang out , the students shot by the military during a demonstration against the army regime , the girl students daring for the first time to stay out at night on the streets to picket , the crushing of strikes with bullets and beatings , the barring of political books in the Committee library , the anti-Communist adverts punctuating the Western films on TV . |