Example sentences of "[vb pp] down for the 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ She 's a tough customer , ’ remarked Melissa when they had finally settled down for the night . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |