Example sentences of "[verb] down for [art] night " in BNC.

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1 He stopped then , and picked her up , shouldering his way into the bedroom with the large double bed already turned down for the night .
2 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 .
3 It 's surprising how much louder they seem to get when you 're bedding down for the night .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 At dusk , passing through the countryside , everything was slowing down for the night .
7 If he had really only been looking for shelter and a place to doss down for the night , why look further than this ?
8 ‘ I 'm coming down for a night , ’ said Louise .
9 Passengers actually changed into their pyjamas and settled down for the night bunks or convertible seat-beds complete with sheets and blankets .
10 An ironical cheer went up at this and we settled down for the night .
11 When the fire was out the hut grew cold and the two boys settled down for the night under their blankets .
12 Strung out along the shelf between hill and vale , with outposts covering every approach , the army settled down for the night .
13 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 .
14 It was dark and well stormy by the time I got to the Aurora Corona Rest Home and the residents were probably battened down for the night .
15 ‘ She 's a tough customer , ’ remarked Melissa when they had finally settled down for the night .
16 When these shops close down for the night , the sound of heavy breathing from their stock must rival that of a porn cinema .
17 There was the evening meal to prepare and Rachel to wash , feed and settle down for the night .
18 The Inspirals settle down for a night 's kip on the 800 mile drive up to the moonlit coast to Seattle for tomorrow 's gig .
19 Chimps make new nests every night , and to keep track of them , you have to be there before they rise , and keep up with them until they settle down for the night .
20 Others , their duties finished , were settling down for the night on their pallets in front of the fires .
21 Around me the camp was settling down for the night , bricks securing groundsheets , tent flaps tied tight , kerosene lamps hissing away their shadows .
22 The old house creaked in its joints like an old dog settling down for the night .
23 On this occasion , everything was shut down for the night but in the morning when the armourers were about to start work , something went wrong .
24 Nicholson , who is being paid a handsome £5 million , is reported to have immersed himself so completely in the part that he wanders around the set mumbling the notorious Hoffa 's favourite phrases — even after the cameras have shut down for the night .
25 Out of the short-wave receiver comes a scratchy-hum , and for a few bleary seconds I think it 's a radio station closed down for the night .
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