Example sentences of "be [verb] in [prep] the night " in BNC.
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| 1 | Core workers at Bhilai have regular employment , but for those on the periphery and in support industries , the work is casual , dangerous and ill-paid : factories , where women are locked in for the night ; opencast iron-ore mines where workers ' deaths by rock-falls are concealed by unscrupulous owners . |
| 2 | Somewhere , cowbells sounded ; the animals had been brought in for the night , maybe . |
| 3 | Northumbrian villages , though protected to some extent by castles and garrisons such as those at Carlisle , Naworth , Harbottle and Norham , tended to be built in a sort of miniature bailey around a large square green which could be gated when cattle were brought in for the night . |
| 4 | To prevent hens laying outdoors and roosting in the trees , the report suggests that the birds be kept in their housing until mid-morning , and be presented with a main feed in-house in the evening before being shut in for the night . |
| 5 | Afraid she might doze off if she gave in to temptation and lay down on the bed , she sat down instead on the room 's only chair , and picked up a book , absorbing not a single word as she waited for the sounds that would mean he was turning in for the night . |