Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] for the night " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our jolly attendant makes one more and final round , checking that we are all tucked in for the night . |
| 2 | He stopped then , and picked her up , shouldering his way into the bedroom with the large double bed already turned down for the night . |
| 3 | She was disconcerted to find that she walked into what was the main bedroom , dominated by a four-poster bed already turned down for the night . |
| 4 | When he came in for the night some hours later he was still agitated and fretting . |
| 5 | But she had insisted , and although the room was warm , and the kitchen stove had already been made up for the night , I had gone — yet it was a strange experience to me , and rather a frightening one , to have been persuaded by someone near to me into doing even so small a thing I felt to be hazardous . ) |
| 6 | At Myitkyina we camped out for the night in a mission schoolroom and early next morning managed to get a lift out to the airstrip two miles away . |
| 7 | It 's surprising how much louder they seem to get when you 're bedding down for the night . |
| 8 | Before turning in for the night I telephoned Fred Workman to say I would be back at my desk by mid-morning and would be covering the visit of Mr Gladstone Murray to our city , his meetings and his broadcast speech , for the next day 's evening edition . |
| 9 | Afraid she might doze off if she gave in to temptation and lay down on the bed , she sat down instead on the room 's only chair , and picked up a book , absorbing not a single word as she waited for the sounds that would mean he was turning in for the night . |
| 10 | Turning in for the night . |
| 11 | The bands started playing around 11 in the evening and , basically , people did n't go there for the music but to get a sleep if they lived too far out from central London to get home after the tubes had closed down for the night . |
| 12 | It requires an adult to participate and stay up for the night . |
| 13 | When his father was tucked up for the night , the son would wander out into the garden and enjoy the cool air as a contrast to the fug of the sick-room . |
| 14 | When the rest of the crowd turned out at closing time and headed for the Floral Gardens with their carry-outs , Tich bedded down for the night in the public lavatory on the other side of the railway bridge . |
| 15 | At dusk , passing through the countryside , everything was slowing down for the night . |
| 16 | If he had really only been looking for shelter and a place to doss down for the night , why look further than this ? |
| 17 | We had been conducting the German youths on tours of our favourite places in the city — to the bullring , the restaurants , the bars , the River Tormes , the Casa de Santa Teresa , the Antiguo Colegio Mayor de Iriandeses , San Martin ( where we were nearly locked in for the night ) and to the conventual church of San Esteban . |
| 18 | Core workers at Bhilai have regular employment , but for those on the periphery and in support industries , the work is casual , dangerous and ill-paid : factories , where women are locked in for the night ; opencast iron-ore mines where workers ' deaths by rock-falls are concealed by unscrupulous owners . |
| 19 | The dog seems anxious to get the harness on ; indeed , all through the trip the dogs are always keen to pull and seem miserable when they are tied off for the night . |
| 20 | However , he was not thrown out , he was taken back to the station and locked up for the night . |
| 21 | 20.00 Prisoners return to cells ; locked up for the night |
| 22 | When the Watermen closed its doors , Connor locked up for the night and made his way upstairs . |
| 23 | At the back of the house was a lock-up gaol and if any one caused any trouble they were locked up for the night , then transported the next morning by the local ‘ taxi ’ , which was a horse and cart , to the police station at Brough to be tried . |
| 24 | Lads who spent the working day in jeans got dressed up in a suit to go out for the night . |
| 25 | And if in carrying he is delayed out for the night it will count two works . |
| 26 | Passengers actually changed into their pyjamas and settled down for the night bunks or convertible seat-beds complete with sheets and blankets . |
| 27 | An ironical cheer went up at this and we settled down for the night . |
| 28 | When the fire was out the hut grew cold and the two boys settled down for the night under their blankets . |
| 29 | Strung out along the shelf between hill and vale , with outposts covering every approach , the army settled down for the night . |
| 30 | We had a very impromptu meal which was brought out from somewhere near Bahrain because our landing area was in a small offshore sand strip where the Nos 55 and 84 Squadron aircraft ( also a Valentia from No 70 Squadron , which was our support aircraft ) were all based overnight and I went to sleep in this hot and humid place , The humidity factor at Bahrain was very high indeed , in the 90s , but I went to sleep quite comfortably on a groundsheet having dug a little hole for my not very considerable hips , weighing very little above 9 stone , and I settled down for the night . |