Example sentences of "used [verb] [adv prt] at night " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ You know , ’ he said , excitedly , ‘ right back before all this , right back when we used to live in the old hole , I used to sit out at nights and watch the moon . |
2 | Well then , also at dusk , of course , the other thing that made us more tired than ever , the Air Raid siren used to go off at night , so then the oil rooms are checked , and you can hear it going over , and you know how the German planes used to go , but you could hear it going over and of course in that black-out then , they used to in the moon light bright along the river Severn , we used to hear them going over and we used to think ’ Are they going to Bristol tonight , or Birmingham or Buckingham ; whether you 'd want to know ’ . |
3 | His father was staying in the same house , and did n't know I was staying there , so I used to creep in at night . |
4 | And she used to come round at night and collect this stuff . |
5 | You had to run when we got there we had n't got any equipment you know , so we used to get out at night , if you had n't got your ga bandolier on you got pulled up , the red caps pulled you up , wanted to know what was the matter with you . |
6 | And I think the stations used to close down at night , like on Sunday evening . |