Example sentences of "for the night [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many entertainments are planned for the night including a charity auction , games and a tombola . |
| 2 | When the fire was out the hut grew cold and the two boys settled down for the night under their blankets . |
| 3 | Then , closing all , the chains of the bridge rattled evenly through their pulleys , and Parfois withdrew for the night into its impregnable walls . |
| 4 | Many old people in particular find it impossible to retire for the night without washing up and leaving everything tidy . |
| 5 | Rebecque , in Braine-le-Comte , had news both from the Prussians and from Dornberg in Mons. The French had advanced north from Charleroi , but had turned eastwards to attack Blücher and had halted for the night at a village called Fleurus . |
| 6 | We were riding back to Stratford in the spring of 1613 and stopped for the night at the Crown Inn in Oxford . |
| 7 | We crossed into Germany and stopped for the night at a service station between Speyer and Karlsruhe . |
| 8 | The journey took only two nights and a day ; previously it had always taken three days , since the train stopped for the night at Dire Dawa and the Awash Station . |
| 9 | Through the Sound of Grunay , ever threading through a procession of rock islets and on to the northernmost island of Unst , where we tied up for the night at the little pier in Baltasound . |
| 10 | The local police kindly agreed to come in on the act and a few off-duty policemen pretended to stalk the burglars and locked them up for the night at a disused police station at Ironbridge ! |
| 11 | The Queen 's Hotel also offer accommodation for the night at a special rate of £10 per person sharing a twin-bedded room with bathroom and including English Breakfast and V.A.T. |
| 12 | Finally that evening the engine pulled into Maidstone where they disembarked , and were put up for the night at the local barracks of the Royal West Kents . |
| 13 | You should see them — they were ringing the Castle round when I came away , and making themselves fires for the night on Cnoc na Lude across the Tilt . |
| 14 | We only broke for the night on the promise of a further meeting next day together with social security officials . |
| 15 | On the evening of Saturday , 31st May , the Covenanters halted for the night on the land of Harelaw , near Loudoun Hill . |
| 16 | Others , their duties finished , were settling down for the night on their pallets in front of the fires . |
| 17 | Consequently Paige 's nerves were stretched as tight as a drum by the time they stopped for the night on the banks of one of the streams they had waded through . |
| 18 | His withdrawal was unobtrusive , but it was of great import , for he was off to launch his ‘ Operation Rubicon ’ ; the long-awaited coup was scheduled for the night of 1–2 December . |
| 19 | Further to my telephone conversation with you this morning , I wish to reserve 4 single rooms with facilities ( at £85 each including VAT and Service , but excluding breakfast ) for the night of Thursday 15 June . |
| 20 | These raids were planned for the night of 14 December . |
| 21 | For the Bristol , Cardiff and London venues Happy Sleeper motels are offering rooms for the night of the concert and breakfast the next morning , at all-inclusive prices . |
| 22 | Ms Jones , in answer to Mr Snoops letter requesting accommodation in room 214 for the night of 1 April , writes confirming the reservation of that particular room . |
| 23 | ‘ So , your alibi for the night of the murder was a false one ? ’ |
| 24 | But her own perspective was different : Durance had told Joseph that Leary was living nearby but Joseph had done nothing about contacting his old friend until he needed an alibi for the night of the murder . |
| 25 | But in between Benjamin Titford was offering beds for the night to paying guests . ’ |
| 26 | Mr Snoops arrives at the Hotel Bograte on 1 April and demands to stay in room 214 , which has already been let for the night to Mr and Mrs Bunn . |
| 27 | Any bar or disco which exceeds its permitted decibel limit can be shut down on the spot for the night by police . |
| 28 | ‘ Tired by a long and laborious day 's walk under a burning sun , I frequently encamped for the night by the side of a river , a natural pond , or a water-hole , and before retiring to rest not unfrequently stretched my weary body on the river 's bank ; while thus reposing , the surface of the water was often disturbed by the little concentric circles formed by the Ornithorhynchus [ duck-billed platypus ] , or perhaps an Echnidna [ anteater ] came trotting up towards me . |
| 29 | It is now getting dark as we settle for the night in the German slit trenches and I share a trench with three French Commandos . |
| 30 | When the rest of the crowd turned out at closing time and headed for the Floral Gardens with their carry-outs , Tich bedded down for the night in the public lavatory on the other side of the railway bridge . |