Example sentences of "[prep] [art] night of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further to my telephone conversation with you this morning , I wish to reserve 4 single rooms with facilities ( at £85 each including VAT and Service , but excluding breakfast ) for the night of Thursday 15 June . |
| 2 | The Oakworth Village Society intend to create a memorial to the six Canadian airmen who lost their lives in a crash of Wellington BK387 during the night of January 2 , 1944 at Tewitt Hall Wood . |
| 3 | Serious rioting in a Hispanic neighbourhood of New York City during the night of July 6-7 left at least one person dead and many others injured , including several police officers . |
| 4 | From Iranian territory the rebels ' radio station , ‘ The Voice of Revolutionary Iraq ’ , claimed that the guerrillas had killed 400 Iraqi soldiers in Basra during the night of April 22nd . |
| 5 | Well , during the night of course , you have cars which are parked in the dark , and without their lights on , so you can see that it , it causes extra problems . |
| 6 | He must have been interviewed during the night of panic following the murder ; in the rational light of dawn he would recognise that his words had been just heroics . |
| 7 | The storm , involving winds of up to 140 miles per hour , during the night of Aug. 25-26 hit the coast of Louisiana , some 60 miles south-west of the city of New Orleans , causing extensive damage . |
| 8 | Osijek , Vinkovci and Pakrac in the east experienced bombardments of unprecedented severity during the night of Sept. 11-12 , and Kostajnica ( on the Croatia-Bosnia border 60 miles south of Zagreb ) fell to Serbian forces on Sept. 12 , bringing a section of Bosnia into the Serbian zone for the first time . |
| 9 | A meeting of the Monetary Committee ( of national and EC officials ) was held during the night of Sept. 16-17 , at the end of which it was announced ( i ) that the Italian authorities would " abstain temporarily from intervention in the foreign exchange markets " ( i.e. that the lira would likewise float outside the ERM ) ; and ( ii ) that the Spanish peseta was to be devalued by 5 per cent within the ERM . |
| 10 | During the remainder of the month there were frequent outbreaks of violence ; during the night of March 23-24 alone , 17 people were reported to have been killed . |
| 11 | The convoy was attacked by U-boats during the night of March 16–17 and 12 ships , including Southern Princess , were sunk . |
| 12 | Official reports of the affair said that one student died and 30 others were hurt after troops including members of the presidential guard attacked the university during the night of May 11-12 , 1990 . |
| 13 | The one exception occurred during the night of Feb. 25-26 when a Scud landed on a US Army reserve barracks in Khobar City , near Dhahran , killing 28 US military personnel and wounding some 100 others . |
| 14 | Rebel army units led by a parachute regiment failed in an attempt to overthrow the government during the night of Feb. 3-4 just as President Carlos Andrés Pérez returned from Switzerland . |
| 15 | The Revolutionary Tupac Amarú Movement ( MRTA ) was believed responsible for a car bomb which exploded outside the residence of the US ambassador during the night of Feb. 11-12 , killing three policemen and injuring several other people . |
| 16 | During the night of December 5 , Pere Noel feeds the hay to his reindeer and leaves a present in its place . |
| 17 | Was a member of their staff in Helsinki during the night of Edward Riverton 's murder ? |
| 18 | Gen. Prosper Avril , the self-proclaimed President of Haiti , imposed a 30-day state of siege during the night of Jan. 20-21 . |
| 19 | ‘ Through the night of doubt and sorrow |
| 20 | ‘ Through the night of doubt and sorrow , Onward goes the pilgrim band , Singing songs of expectation , Marching to the Promised Land . ’ |
| 21 | He had been through the Night of Power . |
| 22 | The day was cooler and still fresh after the night of rain . |
| 23 | For a moment Riva stands outside the cottage , blinking in the harsh sunlight ; the air is well scoured , after the night of rain . |
| 24 | And in another incident Twenty one year old Henry Skelton fell from a window at New College after a night of drink and drugs . |
| 25 | Despite his injuries , he burned the candle furiously at both ends ; often , after a heavy day 's fighting , he would roar up to Paris , 150 miles away , in his huge open sports car , then return after a night of carousal and heavy drinking to fly a dawn patrol . |
| 26 | It was something of an anticlimax to wake next morning to pale dawn light after a night of sleep unbroken by nightmares or dreams of any kind . |
| 27 | On 26 July 9am , after a night of wrestling with his conscience , Carter 's brother walked into Wantage police station and announced , ‘ My brother , John Carter , admitted to me last night that he had killed his wife . ’ |
| 28 | Theseus slew the Minotaur and with Ariadne set sail for home , stopping at Naxos , where , after a night of love , he slipped away at dawn without her . |
| 29 | I awoke after a night of rain and high winds to find the garden fence lying on the ground . |
| 30 | Now , in the brightness of a cloudless morning , the air clear after a night of rain and surprisingly dry , we started out thoroughly refreshed . |