Example sentences of "and [adj] night [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were very glad to pass Gibraltar into the relatively calm waters of the Mediterranean , and that night we were able to undress and sleep in peace . |
| 2 | We like , we have erm a sort of er we have a current affairs and that night we pick up , we all have a say on something that 's be topical on the television that particular week . |
| 3 | It was my role to lead the squadron off and that night we were bound for somewhere in the Ruhr and we were on the short runway at Oakington . |
| 4 | DH Lawrence 's " The Rainbow " was destroyed in 1915 , and " The Well of Loneliness " suffered the same fate in 1928 at the hands of a magistrate who felt that a passage which implied that two women had been to bed ( " And that night they were not divided " ) would induce " thoughts of a most impure character " and " glorify a horrible tendency " . |
| 5 | They had always been a close family and that night they had all ended up in tears after a lengthy talk with their family GP who had come to the house to talk to them about Jennifer 's diagnosis . |
| 6 | He had n't noticed before just how thin she was , and that night it was obvious that her maid had been over-generous with the rouge-brush . |
| 7 | The Warrington by-election was held in mid-July , and that night I went with Neil Kinnock and David Owen to BBC Television Centre to await the result . |
| 8 | And that night I fairly bounded up the stairs . |
| 9 | Neither party seem too interested in the other , and that night I dream about Enoch Powell showing me around a slum street with a vile grin on his face . |
| 10 | ‘ They phoned me at home on a Friday evening and that night I went out to celebrate , ’ she said . |
| 11 | Instinct told her what that ‘ something ’ was and that night she talked until the small hours with her flatmates discussing what she should do . |
| 12 | This stopped the hiccups and calmed him down , and that night he slept for sixteen hours . |
| 13 | And that night he was killed . ’ |
| 14 | Foinavon passed the post with his ears pricked and that night he ate up just as usual . |
| 15 | A crowd of 15,000 gathered outside the meeting place , refusing to allow Chand to leave until an agreement had been reached , and that night he offered his resignation . |
| 16 | Each morning before I leave for work , I bid a cordial ( ? ) farewell to the one perched on my roof and each night I count my fish to see if he 's penetrated the net I hurriedly stretched over the pool . |
| 17 | Medusa smiled like that in her mental images , but Medusa was as close as her own breathing , and each night she looked straight into Medusa 's powerful black eyes . |
| 18 | And er , of course I , when I go up there I , I read some of his you ken old books and that and this night I was up , he 'd Gallovadians you see . |
| 19 | Pitching : on one wild and windy night it took just five minutes to put up the inner . |
| 20 | All day and all night he would be there loitering in the streets of Chichester , either surrounded by hoards of admiring people or dismissed as a dirty scavenging wretch , ruining the ornate Georgian Streets . |
| 21 | And one night they had eloped . |
| 22 | and one night we were all |
| 23 | ‘ Look , ’ he said , ‘ I was in Vegas last year and one night I researched this very point … . ’ |
| 24 | All this time I still wondered about the origin of babies , and one night I raised the subject with Nellie . |
| 25 | Finally , Bill could n't stand it any longer and one night he just clung to Marjorie and cried . |
| 26 | Sebastian was not used to dope and one night he drowned in the swimming-pool . |
| 27 | ‘ And one night she was attacked , ’ said Len thickly . |
| 28 | And Drysdale said : ‘ That was the biggest and best night I 've had in football . |
| 29 | And last night they declared war . |
| 30 | The club were fined £1,000 by the Test and County Cricket Board for repeated ball-doctoring , and last night they pledged to publish the outcome of their investigations into the affair . |