Example sentences of "on [pron] [num ord] night " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I ate myself silly on them last night and made myself feel sick so I 'll never eat them again now . |
| 2 | ‘ On my first night in prison again it was n't realistic . |
| 3 | I finished up in Rome , home to so many of the works I lectured on , and on my last night there I took a walk down to Bernini 's Trevi fountain in order to throw in the coin that would ensure that somehow I would one day return . |
| 4 | She bribed me with pasta and blackmailed me into writing a synopsis on my last night in Hawaii . |
| 5 | On my last night in London I spoke with Winston Churchill . |
| 6 | This was a vehicle with all mod cons at the rear of the bus , which I had followed many times and checked on its progress flying over the route ; oddly enough , on my last night in Mespot I was to sleep in the Imperial Airways rest fort at Rutbah Wells , I had refuelled there many times and had wondered with awe at the vast ugly route-flying Imperial aircraft — Handley Page HP42s — and even more so at the passengers who took an even greater interest in our tiny single-engined Wapiti aircraft , and furthermore asked endless questions about our aircraft and of our life in Baghdad . |
| 7 | On her first night she went to eat at Rosalie 's , the cheap restaurant Epstein had recommended . |
| 8 | A DRINK-DRIVER mowed down and killed a young mother on her first night out since the birth of her son six months ago . |
| 9 | No chores on her first night . |
| 10 | If Louisa had not dreamed badly on her first night at the Lodge it was because she hardly slept at all . |
| 11 | As she had learned on her first night there , Moorlake was noisy at night . |
| 12 | He might be back to normal , but Robbie had n't forgotten the way he 'd turned on her last night . |
| 13 | That could however have been also due to the fact that on her third night in this world , although the Germans had never previously visited Hertfordshire , we got a bomb on the front of the hospital . |
| 14 | Bob Smith and David Brand from HMS United got inshore on their first night 's recce to find a long and uncharted sandbank off the south coast port of Gela , where the Rangers would land that summer . |
| 15 | Under an armed guard on their first night ashore they learnt the truth : as guerrillas , their discipline must be more ruthless than in regular forces for there are no guard-rooms or time for punishment details . |
| 16 | Thereafter she welcomed Paul 's embraces , thrusting herself at him in the way she had ended by doing on their first night . |
| 17 | On their first night in the monastery , with a silver crescent faint in the sky , Hawk gave her a gnarled root , and told her to smear a little of the juice of it onto her tongue before sleep . |
| 18 | However , on their first night she felt like a patient strapped to an operating table without the benefit of an anaesthetic ; and the surgeon was not only blind but expected the patient to give him directions . |
| 19 | Most people find the environment of the laboratory unusual , and on their first night they typically take longer to get to sleep than is usual . |
| 20 | Most experimental studies of sleep now allow subjects a night of acclimatization to laboratory conditions , so that on their first night they are wired up in the usual way , but whatever recordings made are discarded , and the experiments proper begin on the second night . |
| 21 | They had dinner at the hotel restaurant on their first night . |
| 22 | She had tried to explain this feeling to Gay and Felicity , when they had come out of the Jade Cockatoo on their last night together ; but she had known all the time that it was n't a thing that could be explained . |
| 23 | On their last night in the house , Peter had to sleep on the floor , which he enjoyed very much . |
| 24 | On their third night she ordered him quite roughly to bring his legs closer together and found a way of rubbing herself against his knee while sucking at his neck that made him shudder . |
| 25 | On his first night , he is homosexually attacked by a mentally handicapped dwarf , and there then follows a parade of evils which serve to emphasise the horrors of life in a mental hospital — attacks on patients by the staff , general squalor , lack of hygiene and overcrowding ; essentially harrowing and horrific . |
| 26 | On his first night back , his parents give him a party , to which they invite their circle of middle-class , middle-aged friends . |
| 27 | ‘ It was afterwards discovered that the young Maltese soldier was on his first night as a sentry , with instructions to stop any passing car with his lamp and if the car did n't stop to fire his rifle over the top of it . |
| 28 | She always wanted him to tell her where he came from because she said , as she had said to Creggan on his first night , that for an eagle to survive the first thing he must know is where he comes from , and he must not forget his memories however distant they may be . |
| 29 | He rubbed it between his fingers , staring with admiration , then sank , cross-legged , near my chair , the way he 'd done on his first night . |
| 30 | Why else would he bring you here on his first night back in Denmark when he knows it 's one of my favourite clubs ? ’ |