Example sentences of "[prep] the night in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Late that afternoon we made a perfect three-point landing at the RCAF airstrip in Whitehorse , capital of the Yukon Territory , where I found shelter for the night in a bare but adequate room at the Whitehorse Hotel . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It led to an abandoned fishing hamlet called Hamningberg , where we camped for the night in a grassy field studded with interesting saxifrages and other flowers . |
| 4 | They stopped for the night in a small village a day 's ride from the foot of the mountain . |
| 5 | Rex Mundi , Lazlo Woodbine and the two-headed offspring of a popular show-biz couple put up for the night in a room above the Tomorrowman Tavern . |
| 6 | Two teenagers have chosen to bed down for the night in a freezer as part of their training for an expedition to the Artic Circle , They hope that a good night of shivering in sub-zero temperatures will prepare them for the trip . |
| 7 | It is now getting dark as we settle for the night in the German slit trenches and I share a trench with three French Commandos . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Later , under cover of darkness , they crept into the house , where Charles hid for the night in the attic . |
| 10 | I did actually get over to work for them in 1968–70 and 1971 , but this story I am referring to was in 1967 when I was just paying a visit and was given a bed for the night in the hostel . |
| 11 | Now , as the army camped for the night in the shadow of the Worlds Edge Mountains , Gambo Hartstock , Chief Cook , prepared a feast to restore the spirits of the famished Halflings . |
| 12 | We stop for the night in the middle of this scar tissue that will never heal . |
| 13 | Ziba 's 35-year-old brother , Meho , who worked at the dairy and fought with the Sarajevo defence force , had been killed during the night in a skirmish a few blocks away . |
| 14 | Better than enduring his fumbling during the night in the vain hope of satisfaction when the need was strong in her . |
| 15 | Three trouserless murderers fleeing through the night in a quite Cape Town suburb ? |
| 16 | They waited through the night in the white corridor . |
| 17 | Police divers worked through the night in the Sharpness to Gloucester canal at Sharpness docks , recovering the woman 's body , after it was discovered half-submerged by walkers . |
| 18 | Imagine the scene : the Prime Minister 's son , a Member of Parliament and the officer commanding a specialist raiding unit together with their companions , in the middle of the night in a town several hundred miles behind the enemy lines . |
| 19 | Then Gene Tierney , emerging out of the night in a ridiculous hat , surprised Dana Andrews , the cop who thought he was investigating her murder . |
| 20 | He lay awake much of the night in an intense reverie . |
| 21 | Thiercelin had spent what remained of the night in the chateau at Sokolnitz , a requisitioned country house which offered fair prospects of a successful defence , and reasonable comfort in the meantime . |
| 22 | ‘ He says that the night I returned Mr Laing his passport , duly altered , the young man spent most of the night in the computer room , and left before dawn with a large amount of computer printout . |
| 23 | When it started raining , however , he decided to spend the rest of the night in the shelter of the church , and finish his planting in the morning . |
| 24 | ‘ I am proud of the efforts made by our staff who worked throughout the night in the most appalling conditions , to bring comfort and safety to residents affected by these frightening flood conditions , ’ said Mr Davies . |
| 25 | Had she not been nervous , Lydia would have been angry , for she had realised that she was , herself , a domestic beast penned in against the night in a frightening little box of night that was all her own , vulnerable to destruction by the very bounds of its definition . |
| 26 | Of course , one of the advantages of waking up in the night in a sweat is that you tend to have your best ideas whilst failing to get back to sleep . |
| 27 | In the night in a vision , God speaks to him and says , " Moses , you were wrong . |
| 28 | Because they settled down better in the night in the woodlands . |
| 29 | that 's alright now , it 's not er , it must of been er congealed in the night in the chest . |
| 30 | I 've heard them before like that , distanced but there , singing beyond the night in a daytime of their own . |