Example sentences of "of the night [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So we all went off , the doctor and the prisoner and myself , and spent the rest of the night at my house . |
| 2 | Well I 've been up practically the best part of the night with her , just crying . |
| 3 | He slowly took off his clothes and the smell of the night with them , and stood there naked in the morning light by his bedroom window , and he smiled . |
| 4 | He and his sister stood on either side of the bed , bending over her as if to protect her from the perils of the night with their own flesh and bone . |
| 5 | Half of the night with our old friend |
| 6 | The cloverleaf aperture shone down on the Bible Room like a brilliant blue sun , driving away the dark shadows , shrinking the inflated terrors of the night to their proper proportions . |
| 7 | This crazy world whirled about her , men and women dwarfed by toys and puppets , where even the birds were mechanical and the few human figures went masked and played musical instruments in the small and terrible hours of the night into which again she had been thrust . |
| 8 | Fiona sat in the passenger seat of the car , watching the red roadside reflectors drift out of the night towards her . |
| 9 | It was this radar-like scanning of the night around him , which warned him of a new impending danger . |
| 10 | On the other hand that would mean she would have to spend the rest of the night in her room with the door locked while he mounted guard outside , forgoing both the pleasure of quelling her hunger pangs and , much more important , a very real opportunity of fulfilling her original quest . |