Example sentences of "[adj] night [unc] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You need a sound night 's sleep to prepare you for the taxing journey tomorrow . |
| 2 | It took only minutes under the hot jets to wash the last dreamy remnants of sleep away , and then once again all the previous night 's fears came rushing back . |
| 3 | The ripple of laughter that greeted his father 's jocular reference to the previous night 's adventure broke into his train of thought . |
| 4 | He fell back on the settee with a thump as the memories of the previous night 's activities came flooding back . |
| 5 | The bag opens and the ‘ swag ’ from the previous night 's job spills on to the pavement : gold candlesticks , war trophies and silverware . |
| 6 | Billy and Paul had just disembarked from their tour bus after a 17-hour journey from the previous night 's gig supporting Rush in Fort Worth , Texas , and were on their way to play in St Louis the next evening . |
| 7 | Burun 's analysis of the previous night 's events had been scathing , but had provided no answers . |
| 8 | ‘ It was a long night 's work wasted . ’ |
| 9 | Young ladies proverbially make sure they have their " beauty sleep " — the statement " a good night 's sleep improves one 's appearance " was endorsed by over two-thirds of the sample . |
| 10 | He added : ‘ Short term relief or a good night 's sleep to help you recover is the best you can expect . ’ |
| 11 | A good night 's sleep leads to a reappraisal . |
| 12 | Bob Smith and David Brand from HMS United got inshore on their first night 's recce to find a long and uncharted sandbank off the south coast port of Gela , where the Rangers would land that summer . |
| 13 | A nice night 's sleep seems like a nice change , but nightmares have habits of popping up , once when I was five I had a dream that my friends and I were being ripped apart and eaten by a giant , now when the time comes to go into that great big C D tea room in the sky , could you change something ? |
| 14 | When she looked up at him and smiled , he could see that the dangerous edge of last night 's exhaustion had been blunted . |
| 15 | Last night 's developments came just 24 hours after TODAY revealed how Diana had agreed a secret pact with Charles to bury the hatchet for the sake of appearances . |
| 16 | Even before last night 's talks began , AEEU general secretary Gavin Laird said he was ‘ extremely pessimistic ’ and that only a miracle could prevent the plant 's closure . |
| 17 | Last night 's ban comes only 10 days after a similar incident in which Shrewsbury manager John Bond was forced to stay away from an FA Cup tie at his former club , Burnley . |
| 18 | For heaven 's sake , she lectured herself despairingly , he was two-timing a fiancée back in England , and if last night 's incident had been any indication he was quite prepared to embark on a brief dalliance with her as well as Tara … |
| 19 | Behind us a long chain of tiny lights danced slowly away from the refuge towards the col du Chardonnet , as last night 's occupants resumed the Haute Route . |
| 20 | Unbidden , last night 's insults came creeping back . |
| 21 | Family privacy was also increased by the provision of back stairs , so that the master of the house on his main stairway might not meet his ‘ last night 's faeces coming down them ’ . |
| 22 | Drinkers at Peter Kavanagh 's in Egerton Street , Toxteth , Liverpool , became so attached to their papier mache guy featured in last night 's Echothey launched a petition to save him . |
| 23 | And last night 's haul puts him just one behind Hunt 's all-time Liverpool scoring record of 285 . |
| 24 | Fragments of last night 's conversation taunted her . |
| 25 | I need n't be frightened of the mole-woman : she 'd be too busy making beds and totting up last night 's proceeds to wonder whether I was a truant from a Youth Custody Centre or a prostitute on an overnight break . |
| 26 | ‘ Last night 's storm has done little to clear the atmosphere , ’ Mr Carson said . |
| 27 | Last night 's intimacy seemed doubly incongruous in contrast to this fraught hostility . |
| 28 | Last night 's film examined a one-day course which helps people overcome their fear of flying . |
| 29 | Last night 's shooting occurred a few hours after the previous victim , a former Irish Republican Army man shot dead by the Provos for allegedly turning police informer , was buried in Belfast . |
| 30 | In last night 's Hawthorns replay , Wycombe were finally sunk by an 82nd-minute goal from Albion 's Bob Taylor . |