Example sentences of "that night " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet it was as though that night , in the moonlight , in the silence , as though even the work , the months of steady labour , had only been an illusion , only the dream of work , the dream of progress , and I had not even begun and never would begin , though at different moments in my life I might have had the illusion that I had begun and even , perhaps , finished . |
| 2 | ‘ The doctor had visited the man earlier in the day and said he would be back later that night when he thought the pneumonia would have reached its crisis . ’ |
| 3 | I remember the strange feeling I had when I left the square that night , a feeling of finality . |
| 4 | I spent that night in a straitjacket of fear . |
| 5 | That night I lay awake , listening to the sound of children crying and thinking hard about the position that I myself was now in . |
| 6 | ‘ I rang that night shelter you were at this morning and the girl I spoke to told me you were on your way . |
| 7 | That night was my last one in my broom cupboard . |
| 8 | That night Jay dreamed in glorious technicolour with full Dolby stereo . |
| 9 | Very neatly and no one could say when , but something had died that night . |
| 10 | The conference in James Menzies ' house that night was brief . |
| 11 | James had said that John Stewart the pedlar had seemed frantic that night — more so than the emergency warranted ? |
| 12 | Later that night he brought a ragged brown blanket . |
| 13 | But Jamie was replaced that night by a tall , white-faced man who said nothing when he handed in the plate of food . |
| 14 | Don did not have backache that night . |
| 15 | To avoid the trouble she had been obliged to invent a friend , a suicidal woman friend with whom she was staying that night . |
| 16 | That night I dreamed of the toad I had imagined . |
| 17 | That night the dream returned . |
| 18 | As soon as he entered my room that night , he declared provocatively that I must be rich to have such a bed and quilt , as well as cassettes and a television and a video . |
| 19 | That night there was one Buddeke present , a Pinkerton agent . |
| 20 | He would do the operation that night . |
| 21 | My lady and gentleman took him out that night and he drank a lot of fizzy stuff and fell over — I 'm black and I do n't think he saw me in the darkness . |
| 22 | Oldham , policed by the same force , are also at home on that night , against Scarborough . |
| 23 | The acting captain Terry Butcher , bloodied but unbowed , gave a particularly stirring performance that night and was ably complemented by Des Walker until the Nottingham Forest defender almost gave the match away with an aberrant pass back . |
| 24 | Shelford was in Wales last October to watch Neath beat Toulouse , a result which has led him to a conclusion similar to Wyllie 's : ‘ From the performance Neath put on that night , Welsh rugby is in pretty healthy hands . ’ |
| 25 | Apart from the single ecstasy dose , she believed she had drunk only a glass of wine that night . |
| 26 | ‘ We ’ were the seven political prisoners at Pollsmoor — all senior ANC members — of the eight men whose release Mr de Klerk was to announce that night . |
| 27 | I could n't sleep that night . |
| 28 | That night he was woken by planes and saw flares over Berlin , bringing a moment of ‘ homesickness ’ that he was n't up there too . |
| 29 | That night he slept in an old cardboard box that he 'd found , and that gave him some protection from the chilling morning dew . |
| 30 | That night he boarded a small ship flying a Finnish flag and fell asleep in the deserted wheelhouse . |