Example sentences of "down for the night " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the rest of the crowd turned out at closing time and headed for the Floral Gardens with their carry-outs , Tich bedded down for the night in the public lavatory on the other side of the railway bridge . |
| 2 | The bands started playing around 11 in the evening and , basically , people did n't go there for the music but to get a sleep if they lived too far out from central London to get home after the tubes had closed down for the night . |
| 3 | ‘ One of them places where they have rooms for drivers to kip down for the night . |
| 4 | At dusk , passing through the countryside , everything was slowing down for the night . |
| 5 | When these shops close down for the night , the sound of heavy breathing from their stock must rival that of a porn cinema . |
| 6 | Passengers actually changed into their pyjamas and settled down for the night bunks or convertible seat-beds complete with sheets and blankets . |
| 7 | An ironical cheer went up at this and we settled down for the night . |
| 8 | On this occasion , everything was shut down for the night but in the morning when the armourers were about to start work , something went wrong . |
| 9 | When the fire was out the hut grew cold and the two boys settled down for the night under their blankets . |
| 10 | It 's surprising how much louder they seem to get when you 're bedding down for the night . |
| 11 | Nicholson , who is being paid a handsome £5 million , is reported to have immersed himself so completely in the part that he wanders around the set mumbling the notorious Hoffa 's favourite phrases — even after the cameras have shut down for the night . |
| 12 | If he had really only been looking for shelter and a place to doss down for the night , why look further than this ? |
| 13 | There was the evening meal to prepare and Rachel to wash , feed and settle down for the night . |
| 14 | Chimps make new nests every night , and to keep track of them , you have to be there before they rise , and keep up with them until they settle down for the night . |
| 15 | About three weeks after Minch had gone , the Sweeper came by one evening just when the Men were shutting the Zoo down for the night . |
| 16 | On return to the farm in the late afternoon there was likely to be a further round of gossip and conversation while grooming the horses and bedding them down for the night . |
| 17 | ‘ She 's a tough customer , ’ remarked Melissa when they had finally settled down for the night . |
| 18 | Out of the short-wave receiver comes a scratchy-hum , and for a few bleary seconds I think it 's a radio station closed down for the night . |
| 19 | Strung out along the shelf between hill and vale , with outposts covering every approach , the army settled down for the night . |
| 20 | He stopped then , and picked her up , shouldering his way into the bedroom with the large double bed already turned down for the night . |
| 21 | She was disconcerted to find that she walked into what was the main bedroom , dominated by a four-poster bed already turned down for the night . |
| 22 | Others , their duties finished , were settling down for the night on their pallets in front of the fires . |
| 23 | It was dark and well stormy by the time I got to the Aurora Corona Rest Home and the residents were probably battened down for the night . |
| 24 | Around me the camp was settling down for the night , bricks securing groundsheets , tent flaps tied tight , kerosene lamps hissing away their shadows . |
| 25 | The old house creaked in its joints like an old dog settling down for the night . |
| 26 | We had a very impromptu meal which was brought out from somewhere near Bahrain because our landing area was in a small offshore sand strip where the Nos 55 and 84 Squadron aircraft ( also a Valentia from No 70 Squadron , which was our support aircraft ) were all based overnight and I went to sleep in this hot and humid place , The humidity factor at Bahrain was very high indeed , in the 90s , but I went to sleep quite comfortably on a groundsheet having dug a little hole for my not very considerable hips , weighing very little above 9 stone , and I settled down for the night . |
| 27 | And was still wondering some half an hour later when Rosa had settled her down for the night but frustration , sharper than any pangs of hunger , was keeping her awake . |
| 28 | You feel you have to batten the house down for the night |
| 29 | Two teenagers have chosen to bed down for the night in a freezer as part of their training for an expedition to the Artic Circle , They hope that a good night of shivering in sub-zero temperatures will prepare them for the trip . |