Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] a night [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Swordfish was despatched to shadow while seven others were readied and armed ( six with torpedoes , one with bombs ) in preparation for a night strike . |
| 2 | The couple would like to care for Leah at home fulltime , but have been told they would be unlikely to receive funding for a night nurse to look after her while they slept . |
| 3 | ‘ Christ , ’ breathed Billy , ‘ you were lucky there mate , that was a pretty big un' for a night tide , I heard it was a twenty seven footer . |
| 4 | While at the University of Chicago ( where he met Ulu Grosbard ) , he made his living as a night janitor , hotel desk clerk and delivery truck driver . |
| 5 | Like cats ' eyes on a night road the pale faces beamed at Holly and his adversary through the greyness of the room . |
| 6 | ( One has taken advantage of a night call ) . |
| 7 | Philip Unwin recalled : ‘ The clatter of these milk churns was inseparable from railway stations , suggestive of cheerful bustle by day but strangely mournful in the small hours of a night journey . |
| 8 | The balance of power had moved like the contours of a desert after a night wind . |
| 9 | Stone handled the action scenes with skill : rarely have the acute tensions of a night ambush and the savagery of jungle combat been so well conveyed . |
| 10 | With the help of a night nurse he found the right room and tiptoed in . |
| 11 | she used to go to an old person 's home of a night time you know |
| 12 | I 've tried to find work on a night time when my parents or my boyfriend could look after the kiddie but there just is n't that much of that kind of work around . |
| 13 | Yeah but the point is I mean if the barman 's busy in the pub on a night time and it 's dark he do n't know whose outside |
| 14 | Oh I could n't walk through a wood on a night time . |
| 15 | Under health service regulations doctors are entitled to £45 for a night visit . |
| 16 | I consider they will accept the continued need for a night sleeper for now on but that within a short period of instituting a full paid up carer regime they will revert to a regime which includes only one paid carer and will provide the further physical assistance between them . |
| 17 | On more than one occasion he had had to remove a dead dog from the highway and take it in his barrow to the incinerator , and there were times when he had to take the place of a night watchman who had been taken ill on one of the larger roadworks and stay there until he could be relieved . |
| 18 | Quick and bold to seize the occasion for a night attack , an escape or a ruse , he suffers before and after any such action from painful self-doubt and exhausting self-analysis . |
| 19 | He had been found asleep on the floor of a taxi outside a night club and claimed he had hired it for the evening as his bedroom . |
| 20 | If he was up for a part in a Night Nurse commercial he 'd be sure to get it unless Mickey Rourke turned up for the same audition . |
| 21 | Twenty-eighth June — this evening I joined the Marine Commandos to take part in a night standing patrol . |
| 22 | An excellent soldier , Astorre simply accepted the prospect of a night ride to Sigouri , and made no bones about his employer 's decision that , against the King 's wishes , an assault was to be made . |
| 23 | Assuming that the proportion of visits done in the sample between 2300 and 0700 can be applied to the whole of Berkshire , it becomes possible to estimate the number of night visits which would have been claimable by using the definition of a night visit which applied before April 1990 . |
| 24 | They seem to have treated the lifters as brainlessly as they did a student with a night job in Bournemouth when he could n't give a sample despite an hour of trying on a roasting day in London . |
| 25 | I did all the usual stuff — I gave her some money and stuck her on a tube train to a night shelter , but while I was walking out of the tube station , I thought to myself , ‘ you complacent bitch ’ ’ you know . |
| 26 | Before he can set out the book reaches a savage climax as a night bivouac comes under heavy bombardment with rockets and mortars : the violence , noise and confusion are captured , as is the terrifying helplessness which contrasts with the circumstances of his first wound in action during an armoured charge under gunfire . |
| 27 | Now only three or four years later I 'd say of yeah we 're go to somewhere a bit quieter , so that kids can go to bed of a night time , we could have a apartment . |
| 28 | In Haiti in the early hours of 2 July 1990 Mariano Delaunay , founder of a night school for the poor of Port-au-Prince , was standing on a pavement outside the house where he was attending a friend 's wake . |
| 29 | They did n't give me methadone , they just gave me I think it was 30 milligrams of Librium and two sleepers of a night time … . |
| 30 | You go to all the trouble of finding me a bed in a night shelter and you then get me so drunk they 'll refuse point-blank to let me in ! ’ |