Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] the [adj] night " in BNC.
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| 1 | They warned him with veiled threats against mentioning anything that he had witnessed the previous night . |
| 2 | Alan thought of the little scene he had witnessed the previous night . |
| 3 | The French , probably over-confident of victory , allowed themselves to be drawn into a cavalry advance , carried out under a hail of arrows , across recently ploughed ground made softer yet by the rain which had fallen the previous night . |
| 4 | Hoomey had not seen Nails there since , but had an instinct that he had come the following night too . |
| 5 | Corbett , remembering all he had seen the previous night , was more wary of Thomas : the evil he had experienced in that hut was nothing to take lightly . |
| 6 | She was sitting beside Ken , who looked depressingly the same as he had done the previous night . |
| 7 | Sweet going down , sweet coming back up , ’ the man in the boat yard had said the previous night . |
| 8 | A few weeks later Mr Walker told Ruth of a premonition that he had had the previous night — it was identical to Mr Reynolds ' . |
| 9 | How he had intended that they should live with her for a while , and how his mother had a grudge against Bridget , and the terrible row they had had the previous night , and how they did n't know where they were going to live . |
| 10 | Benedict himself , who had stayed the previous night , had driven himself over there in his phaeton , glad to be relieved of his cousin 's irksome company . |
| 11 | Within a few yards of the bank on which they had spent the uneasy night they came across the first sign of man . |
| 12 | When , at last , some nasty little spots began to appear , and he had spent the last night of the year sitting up in bed and holding his pyjama jacket away from his afflictions , Joan put her foot down . |
| 13 | Believing me to be an intellectual , Beth had spent the previous night searching for suitable words to read before the laying-on of hands . |
| 14 | He told him about their ruined holiday and where they had spent the previous night , although he did not reveal his unusual experience . |
| 15 | Having no alternative , Fiver accompanied Hazel and Bigwig to the burrow where Hazel had spent the previous night . |
| 16 | Above all , how could he have the nerve to come here after what had happened the other night ? |
| 17 | He was depressed by what had happened the previous night . |
| 18 | They all knew what had happened the previous night and , from Wallas Ward 's announcement before the curtain rose , they knew that Charles had stepped in at very short notice . |
| 19 | She awoke with her body lazily relaxed , only slight soreness to remind her of what had happened the previous night . |
| 20 | Rachel thought how lovely she looked , then found herself wondering just what had happened the previous night between her sister and David — a couple who had once meant the world to each other . |
| 21 | She had left the previous night without speaking to him , without giving him the chance to say how sorry he was . |
| 22 | In essence it was simpler than what she had suggested the previous night ; but the details were far more involved . |