Example sentences of "up [det] night " in BNC.
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| 1 | — be prepared to tell him any particular things he should know ( e.g. you spend a long time travelling to and from work each day ; you have recently had a bereavement in your family ; you have to get up each night for the children , etc . ) . |
| 2 | I wake up each night worrying about it . |
| 3 | When the shopping centre was locked up that night , Ray Coary the manager praised my work , and tried to press an envelope on me . |
| 4 | Like any other youth , I was thrilled by the annual visits of the big circus , and when the Al G. Barnes Circus came to town I paid my own way in to the ‘ show ’ and sat up that night writing the first big-top review for the Times-Herald , which Fred Workman accepted with alacrity . |
| 5 | God knows why he woke up that night . |
| 6 | She had sat up that night in her room , sitting on the bed scribbling notes on one of the Shelbourne 's notepads . |
| 7 | He had arrived at the Laboratory over an hour late , at ten o'clock , looking terribly tired because he had been up that night at the scene of crime , and had come over to the reception desk to collect his personal post . |
| 8 | And the points picked up that night will inform a Sunday training session . |
| 9 | I only had twenty four hours ' notice and then I sat up all night learning a speech and then dried flat at the audition . |
| 10 | Just as Marjorie stayed up all night while Lizzie was recovering from a womb infection , so Lizzie stayed by Marjorie 's bedside while she recuperated after a gallstone operation . |
| 11 | The early years were war years — the horror of news , and fear of raids , and blackness at night , and poor food , and sitting up all night , and very earnest prayer . |
| 12 | So we 'd wait up all night , follow the delivery van around and survive on the bread and milk we could swipe . |
| 13 | A clue as to what this might be comes from our personal experience if we attempt to miss a night 's sleep and stay up all night ( fig 1.2 ) . |
| 14 | I would be flying over and staying with Angie for a couple of weeks at The Sherry Netherland , and Angie and I would go with Zowie in the daytime and then we 'd stay up all night with David because he functioned at night . |
| 15 | Lucy Wedderburn , the young medical registrar , has been up all night inserting drains and carefully drawing out bloodstained fluid , and she 's still on duty , witty and vivacious through the exhaustion . |
| 16 | But I 've been up all night . |
| 17 | A ‘ natural high ’ that really does keep you up all night . |
| 18 | This time his powers of concentration were not helped by the fact that on a hot and humid Sunday afternoon in the Bois de Boulogne he was feeling awful : he had been wasting in order to ride Beaver II at nine stone ten pounds later in the afternoon , and was severely debilitated by a stomach upset which had kept him up all night . |
| 19 | I 've been up all night , thinking . |
| 20 | Mrs Thatcher was cute enough to see the need to cultivate the backbenchers who made up her lobby fodder and the knighthood became once again the reward for wrecked marriages and broken health caused by sitting up all night to vote as the whips instructed . |
| 21 | He had been up all night shadowing a team of poachers , until they had been manoeuvred into the welcoming arms of the constabulary . |
| 22 | It could only be about eight o'clock — her old-fashioned watch , unwound this morning , had stopped — but she felt as if she had been up all night , working to meet an insane deadline . |
| 23 | Washington Square ; Greenwich Village , the part of New York which stays up all night and starts waking up around midday . |
| 24 | He 'd been up all night . |
| 25 | You stayed up all night , you ate , you drank , you stayed thin and you had oceans of energy . |
| 26 | ‘ Have you been up all night ? ’ |
| 27 | I do n't think I had ever watched the dawn break until my Waaf days — certainly I had never stayed up all night before , and however many times I had to do it in the course of my duties , it always seemed to me a highly unnatural procedure . |
| 28 | Personally , by the time I had cycled up the hill in the dark , battling against high winds and rain , wearing my rain cape in a futile attempts to keep dry , I felt more like flopping into bed than sitting up all night making silly marks on a chart and plunging outside every sixty minutes to see if it was still raining . |
| 29 | ‘ Spewed me ring up all night , then I went and rode me bike into that mooring rope over there , ’ he indicated further up the dock . |
| 30 | And I slept most of today , as I 'll be up all night , with the stops . ’ |