Example sentences of "[prep] the night i " in BNC.
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| 1 | I will grow old gracefully , as we are advised ; and as I made ready for the night I tried to see myself as the little girls must have seen me . |
| 2 | Before turning in for the night I telephoned Fred Workman to say I would be back at my desk by mid-morning and would be covering the visit of Mr Gladstone Murray to our city , his meetings and his broadcast speech , for the next day 's evening edition . |
| 3 | During the night I hear the harsh squeal of a fox , a long way off , answered by a staccato bark from one of the dogs . |
| 4 | During the night I wake to dash the two yards from bunk to bathroom . |
| 5 | During the night I visited him every three hours as my vet had told me that if his leg had broken completely it would n't be fair to leave him suffering . |
| 6 | During the night I cut firewood for them , and added it secretly to the wood which the young man had cut during the day . |
| 7 | It does n't seem to put off others as the night I visited , the place was heaving . |
| 8 | From then on I began to interpret each nocturnal sound as a footstep or as a bolt sliding back , and in the misery of the night I turned round and round in bed , my nightdress winding itself tighter and tighter about me , while a little voice inside me complained , ‘ I tried to do right , and now look what you 've done to me . |
| 9 | Even now I am ashamed when I think of the night I ‘ let fly ’ to one of our best auxiliary nurses who had come to ask me to help when I was just going off duty . |
| 10 | By the end of the night I wo n't know who I am or what I do any more . |
| 11 | ‘ Oh , there were good times and bad times , ’ said Connor , adding reminiscently , ‘ Did I ever tell you of the night I stood up to Jack Johnson ? ’ |
| 12 | The catholic meet in the middle of the night I think do n't they . |
| 13 | At nine of the night I opened my door That stands midway between moor and moor , And all around me , silver-bright , I saw that the world had turned to white . |
| 14 | AT NINE OF THE NIGHT I OPENED MY DOOR |
| 15 | Then , suddenly , in the middle of the night I heard very clearly the sound of a woman crying . |
| 16 | out , he says to me you 'll kill yourself , you always want to do something , but to be honest it 's worse for me to sit there and watch that , it 's more tiring because by the end of the night I 'm not tired or I 've been asleep all evening I , I 'm better to go out , I know it sounds awful but I do n't like being trapped , I do n't like being in because somebody seems to think I should be in |
| 17 | driving lesson in the middle of the night I 'd be alright ! better . |
| 18 | ‘ The one he was locked in the closet with the night I arrived . ’ |
| 19 | You have been patient and you have worked hard , and I fear on many occasions late into the night I 'm sure , you have proved adaptable and er you have been good-tempered . |
| 20 | But when darkness fell , he was always in the bushes by the gate ; and waking in the night I would sometimes hear a shrill cry , ‘ Come out then ! |
| 21 | When I woke once in the night I could feel the north wind blowing softly on my cheek , and knew we would have good sailing the next day . |
| 22 | I told my mother that as Thomas would be in strange surroundings and might wake in the night I thought it better if the two of you shared a room . |
| 23 | Three helico , oh , or helicopters went over three times in the night I thought I was gon na raped and pillaged but no luck ! |
| 24 | ‘ It was over the night I accompanied you to that dinner and backed up your story . |
| 25 | I saw the massed coils of barbed wire , the tall wooden towers and the muffled sentries that we had passed on the night I arrived . |
| 26 | I do n't know your name , but I want to thank you for your kindness to me on the night I left Weatherbury . |
| 27 | At first I thought someone climbed the wall and put them there , but on the night I was chased by Gaveston 's dogs , I found that was an impossible feat . |
| 28 | On the night I turned up in my red leotard and dippy skirt with a heavier than usual coat of paint on , to find , to my horror , that Cleo Roccas of Kenny Everett fame and a young lady much featured on Page 3 , called Gilly , I think , were already up on the stage , surrounded by a sixty-strong swarm of Street of Shame photographers , all climbing up each other 's anoraks and screaming ‘ Lean forward , Cleo — a bit further , give us a smile , lick your lips , Gilly — lovely , lovely — hitch that skirt up a bit … ’ |
| 29 | Conditions , if anything , were better on the night I blanked . |
| 30 | Er I felt , I 've been after Danny for nearly twelve months to come see and not been able to get him on the night I want him the only night he was able , was available was I think it was one night when we had something else on I ca n't remember what it was . |