Example sentences of "be [vb pp] during the night " in BNC.
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| 1 | Communications were no doubt temporarily dislocated : our jam-packed train had been halted during the night owing to an air raid in the region . |
| 2 | Information had been received during the night that a large party of Dragoons , commanded by the infamous Graham of Claverhouse , were in pursuit of them and had spent the night at Strathaven . |
| 3 | He must have been interviewed during the night of panic following the murder ; in the rational light of dawn he would recognise that his words had been just heroics . |
| 4 | A sudden volley of shots broke out , the sound no longer muffled by windows , all of which had been shattered during the night . |
| 5 | Neither of them mentioned anything that had been said during the night ; they just agreed to head back to civilisation and not to mix whisky and cannabis like that again . |
| 6 | Yeah we 've got the daily contact each morning with one of the , one of the er council employees , they 'll come up approximately between eight and nine , and we 'll hand over any incidents reports that have been made during the night . |
| 7 | The day staff should tell you if someone prefers not to be disturbed during the night . |
| 8 | The locomotive is also expected to be used during the night steam event on Saturday , November 7 . |
| 9 | They were a group of twelve , mainly Icelandic , but with two Norwegians and a Canadian , and now joined by an English cyclist who pretended , when convenient , to be Welsh , The intended route was up the south-west side of the Öræfajökull , the glacier being climbed during the night , although in June the sun only barely dips below the northern horizon at midnight . |
| 10 | On 23 April the Allies reached the Po north of Bologna , which had been liberated during the night of 21–2 April . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | More rain is expected during the night — that 's bad news for families like the Chapmans — flooded for the second time in a year . |
| 13 | Although it was summer a fire burned in the great stone hearth — embers which were all that were left of logs which had been burned during the night to repel the damp which always crept out of the stone walls . |
| 14 | With the girl 's clothes we should be able to trace her back at least to the point at which she was dropped during the night — or I hope so , after all that rain . |
| 15 | I was transferred during the night to another place with my brothers , the secret prison in Bir Rami , in Rabat , code name ‘ Fixed Point 3 ( FP3 ) ’ . |
| 16 | Poor Martha Lamb was having her fourth baby and was probably hustled up to the attic rooms on the floor above out of earshot ; the child , a boy , was born during the night . |
| 17 | He was killed during the night of 20 October 1941 , when the Wellington bomber he was piloting crashed in Chipping Warden , Northamptonshire . |
| 18 | A meeting of the Monetary Committee ( of national and EC officials ) was held during the night of Sept. 16-17 , at the end of which it was announced ( i ) that the Italian authorities would " abstain temporarily from intervention in the foreign exchange markets " ( i.e. that the lira would likewise float outside the ERM ) ; and ( ii ) that the Spanish peseta was to be devalued by 5 per cent within the ERM . |