Example sentences of "[prep] the night in a " 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | Three trouserless murderers fleeing through the night in a quite Cape Town suburb ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Then Gene Tierney , emerging out of the night in a ridiculous hat , surprised Dana Andrews , the cop who thought he was investigating her murder . |
| 11 | He lay awake much of the night in an intense reverie . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In the night in a vision , God speaks to him and says , " Moses , you were wrong . |
| 15 | I 've heard them before like that , distanced but there , singing beyond the night in a daytime of their own . |