Example sentences of "on the [num ord] night " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the fifth night they were dog-tired , having had little relaxing sleep in the cramped quarters of the submarine and spending several hours each day writing up their notes on the previous night 's recce . |
| 2 | On the fifth night he finally fell asleep when the electrodes were on and recordings were being made , and stayed asleep for two and a half hours until his wife woke him . |
| 3 | On the sixth evening he invited his clerk , Mr Guest , to dinner with him , and on the seventh night he went to visit Doctor Lanyon . |
| 4 | This happy condition disintegrated on the eleventh night when Matty described Chris as vulgar , selfish , childish and dull , while he described her as self-righteous , holier-than-thou and hypocritical . |
| 5 | If this continues to be unsuccessful then some travellers purposely ‘ miss ’ the first sleep in their new time zone to make sure that they are tired on the second night . |
| 6 | Now he recalled how , on the second night after his mother had left home , he had climbed out of bed in the late evening and slipped unnoticed from the house to run over a mile to Bournemouth Central Railway Station to catch a train to nearby Christchurch , where his mother had gone to live with her sister . |
| 7 | Lewes 's group found the track , and on the second night out stumbled on the signal lights placed by the LRDG . |
| 8 | On the second night at the caravan she had slid back the partition between his bed and hers and had walked quietly up to his bed and had stood gravely looking down at him . |
| 9 | FOR TWO DAYS I WENT ABOUT RACKING MY BRAINS FOR A PLOT OF ANY SORT ; – ON THE SECOND NIGHT I DREAMED THE SCENE AT THE WINK ) W , AND A SCENE AFTERWARD SPLIT IN TWO , IN WHICH HYDEPURSUED FOR SOME CRIME , TOOK THE POWDER AND UNDERWENT THE CHANGE IN THE PRESENCE OF HIS PURSUERS . |
| 10 | Especially on the second night , I had the feeling that he wanted to talk , and what made it the more interesting was the variety of his experiences and the mature way in which he alluded to them . |
| 11 | The pillar itself gave several excellent pitches on sound granite , but on the second night on the pillar the wind was so strong that Venables and Renshaw were forced to pitch their tent inside a chimney , squeezed onto a jammed block . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | And then down to Ivrigar on the second night . ’ |
| 14 | On the second night , at her emphatic request , Frere moved , temporarily , into another room . |
| 15 | The captain hosts a cocktail party on the second night of the cruise . |
| 16 | Nigel Robson , tall and pompous , became wonderfully enraged as the Mayor ; while Juliet Booth , ill on the first night at York but now displaying her fine voice and musicianship to the full , mixed honey and gall as the spoiled and fickle Arminda . |
| 17 | The Russian heroic tenor , Alexei Steblianko , from the Kirov in Leningrad is the least comfortable with a French accent , but then on the first night he was battling with a throat infection . |
| 18 | The Russian heroic tenor , Alexei Steblianko , from the Kirov in Leningrad is the least comfortable with a French accent , but then on the first night he was battling with a throat infection . |
| 19 | But on the first night at least Richard Hague 's careful Figaro seemed only part way there , tentative and restrained in his guile . |
| 20 | The musical opens with her trial ; in the theatre on the first night , she was in tears . |
| 21 | On the first day of the blizzard 30 of my sheep got buried and on the first night my kennel runs were covered with six feet of snow , making it difficult , if not impossible , to get the dogs out . |
| 22 | The rats , in a panic on the first night , hit the barricade and swarmed everywhere , including some spots where they were definitely not welcome . |
| 23 | On the first night , most of them were watching Bionic Showdown : The Bionic Woman Meets the Six-Million Dollar Man on a rival channel . |
| 24 | To sit in a plush cinema with Anna , Mama and Konstantin on the first night , watching the titles unroll ! |
| 25 | On the first night not a soul could be induced to enter it . ’ |
| 26 | Blandine de Bayser , who sold nine drawings on the first night , had a delicate portrait of a woman attributed to the 17th century painter Franois Quesnel at £10,000 , and a fine Tiepolo of the Holy family from the Orloff collection at £90,000 . |
| 27 | On the first night , with the arrival of the various groups , some time will be spent in introducing the participants and getting them to describe their experiences . |
| 28 | Apparently on the first night of the opera , contrary to the usual customs , the audience insisted on hearing one of Bernasconi 's arias repeated , and many arias were applauded . |
| 29 | On the first night , three members of the squad , the goalkeeper Alan Rough and the Rangers pair Derek Johnstone and Sandy Jardine , left the camp to visit a local casino . |
| 30 | On the first night the effect should be specially pronounced . |