Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] night " in BNC.
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| 1 | When allocating time for the garter carriage , first decide whether it is possible to leave it knitting all night . |
| 2 | And it succeeded last night , courtesy of Iain Dowie 's excellent strike in the ninth minute of this World Cup Group Three game — and four world-class saves from Wright afterwards . |
| 3 | ‘ I had a friend who used to say that if you burned a candle in your window and it burned all night , then the world would n't end while you were sleeping . ’ |
| 4 | • Clark Gable , on the other hand , caused vest sales to drop drastically when he took off his shirt in ‘ It Happened One Night ’ , to reveal a completely bare torso . |
| 5 | It happened one night when Derek and I were down there . |
| 6 | It is interesting to compare Ferguson 's reaction to Vidor 's film with his reaction at much the same time to the newly released It Happened One Night , which Frank Capra had directed for Columbia . |
| 7 | William Troy in the Nation was similarly unable to find the right words to explain the greatness of It Happened One Night and he suggested that ‘ a good photoplay , like a good book or a good piece of music , remains always something of a miracle ’ and that ‘ beyond a certain point the mind is forced to bow down before its own inability to unravel and put together again all the parts of the shining and imponderable whole with which it is dealing ’ . |
| 8 | More than any other film , It Happened One Night had pointed the way forward , but , greatly to the surprise of many critics , problem films kept on appearing . |
| 9 | I 'm only — I wo n't say glad , no , that would be quite the wrong word , but , shall I say relieved , that it happened last night . ’ |
| 10 | Rotten weather ; it rained all night , but in the opening minutes , the Swindon players ran hard and challenged for everything . |
| 11 | It rained last night . |
| 12 | that up of a night and he has it going all night |
| 13 | It opened last night with a jazz session , but tonight the focus turns to bluegrass and Irish traditional tunes . |
| 14 | His face was thin and emaciated , drawn together as if it spent each night in some kind of linen press . |
| 15 | I had it , had it recording last night . |
| 16 | So it proved last night . |
| 17 | ‘ It means good night , ’ Feargal explained as he got to his feet to kiss his mother goodnight . |
| 18 | Vern had jammed it shut last night . |
| 19 | It lasts all night . |
| 20 | However , it emerged last night that a reporter from London Weekend Television unwittingly tipped off residents about the raid when he phoned contacts on the estate to ask if there had been a raid — before it had actually happened . |
| 21 | Mr Larry Whitty , the party 's general secretary , asked unions on March 26 not to respond to Conservative attacks , it emerged last night . |
| 22 | It emerged last night that Tony Hendley saved the life of two dying youngsters by donating his kidneys . |
| 23 | JOHN Major is ready to unlock £1 billion from the sale of council houses to ease the plight of council tax payers , it emerged last night . |
| 24 | DESPERATE Tory Whips used every dirty trick in the book against MPs planning to rebel over the Maastricht vote , it emerged last night . |
| 25 | PORN heiress Debbie Raymond is thought to have been killed by a cocktail of drinks and drugs , it emerged last night . |
| 26 | EAST Anglian commuters will be able to reach work without fear of further strikes , it emerged last night . |
| 27 | It emerged last night that Ynys Mon 's MP Ieuan Wyn Jones has met new Welsh Secretary John Redwood to discuss the future of the hall . |
| 28 | A MAJOR freight airline is to transfer its operation to Liverpool Airport , it emerged last night . |
| 29 | NELSON Mandela 's visit to Glasgow next week has been postponed on the advice of his doctors , it emerged last night . |
| 30 | CARTOONS showing the Princess of Wales naked are no longer being considered for use in a Channel 4 programme today , it emerged last night . |