Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] the night " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I think they tried to drug me the night before I rode Shine On at York . ’ |
| 2 | He 'd noticed it the night before . |
| 3 | She 'd done it the night before when she 'd tried to get hold of Jessica , but Aunt Jane had turned the radio up so loudly ( to make it nice and private for her niece ) that she 'd hardly been able to decipher Mrs Roberts ' apology for her daughter 's absence . |
| 4 | In the suspended moment Jess saw a long strand of cobweb stretching from window to floor , flecks of dust spinning in a shaft of sunlight , her petticoat in a ball against a pile of hay , the filthy shirt on the nail where she 'd hung it the night before . |
| 5 | There had been no time for a cup of coffee and she 'd eaten nothing the night before , going straight to her cabin . |
| 6 | Most Kingsmarkham faces were familiar to Wexford and Burden remembered seeing him the night before arm-in-arm with the dead man , singing and disturbing decent citizens . |
| 7 | When she had finished , she sat down at the kitchen table with the envelope Tracey had given her the night before . |
| 8 | She glared at me , dug beneath her cloak and pushed a purse ( much leaner than the one she had given me the night before ) into my hand . |
| 9 | It was Esther , with the news that their friend Liz had rung her the night before to tell her that she and Charles were getting divorced , and that Charles intended to marry Henrietta Latchett . |
| 10 | He did not know what had possessed him the night before , yet , gradually , the sweetness she gave him began to dissolve his confusion ; his vivid spurt of pleasure returned to him and he looked across at her and asked , ‘ Will you be coming to the passeggiata next Saturday ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ If she had seen you the night of the Giants she might have thought differently , ’ Ratagan said gently . |
| 12 | Chico offered Rex the kind of comforting smile Rex had offered him the night before . |
| 13 | Cora-Beth had told him the night before that there were letters and cards awaiting him from England , all of which had ‘ Not To Be Opened Until 5 Jan. ’ on the envelopes , so she had extracted a promise from him to leave them on his bedside table until this morning . |
| 14 | ‘ Wild ’ , Omi had called him the night he arrived , a wild boy , and now another dimension had been added to that figure from long ago : cruelty — a cruel boy … . |
| 15 | The Concorde ticket to New York was where she had left it the night before . |