Example sentences of "night i " in BNC.
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| 1 | That night I lay awake , listening to the sound of children crying and thinking hard about the position that I myself was now in . |
| 2 | That night I dreamed of the toad I had imagined . |
| 3 | ‘ At night I would wrap the children in blankets , put them in the car , and drive down to New Covent Garden to collect the fruit and vegetables . ’ |
| 4 | Then , every night I 'd return to that street and live in one room with my mother . |
| 5 | AT RONNIE SCOTT 's Club last night I was chatting to some of the members , insofar as one could hear one 's self talk above the noise of the musicians , when the subject of London transport came up . |
| 6 | That night I began to stutter . |
| 7 | One night I saw a film about Jesus Christ . |
| 8 | That night I lie awake in bed for hours , thinking about this . |
| 9 | That night I could n't close my eyes , the slightest creaking of the furniture announcing the imminent arrival of the undead . |
| 10 | One night I was there , before the start of the film , a young man leaped onto the stage and announced that he was an unemployed actor looking for a role in a movie . |
| 11 | Even of that first ecstatic experience with Mohammed in 1895 he would write much later , ‘ Every time since then that I have sought after pleasure , it is the memory of that night I have pursued ’ ( If It Die , 283 ) . |
| 12 | And many a night I spent at The Greyhound watching Brinsley Schwarz , diligently studying Nick Lowe 's bass playing . |
| 13 | But Greenford was in Middlesex and many was the night I spent in the pissing rain having walked to Acton Town station to wait for the first train home in the morning . |
| 14 | One night I remember , she knocked on the door at Denmark Street just as we were packing up . |
| 15 | During the night I hear the harsh squeal of a fox , a long way off , answered by a staccato bark from one of the dogs . |
| 16 | It 's just that — well , last night I was having a drink with him at the Dragon . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ That night I had a disagreement with my parents . |
| 18 | One night I 'm in bed — just sort of lying there , thinking about stuff and that when Marie walks in and goes straight over to her door . |
| 19 | It 'd be real easy — I 'd just say to myself ‘ Well , I think I 'll just pop over and see Marie today ’ , and five minutes later I 'd be there and we could have tea together , then if I did n't want to stay the night I 'd just fly into the sky again and stay there . |
| 20 | Each night I soothed my hands with ice cubes from the mini-bar . |
| 21 | Sometimes at night I 'd find myself beyond the souks in narrow lanes between windowless houses . |
| 22 | The night I went the original leads , Darcey Bussell ( Princess Rose ) and Jonathon Cope ( her Prince ) , had already been rotated out of the cast in favour of Viviana Durante and Stuart Cassidy . |
| 23 | The less fortunate have to stand on aching pins as the carriage , unventilated ( it is impossible to fit air conditioning to tube trains as the tunnels are too small to acccommodate such devices ) , grows hot and foetid ; even the lines of Shirley Lim 's Modern Secrets up there amongst the ads- ‘ Last night I dreamt in Chinese/Eating Yankee Shredded Wheat ’ -brought to us by ‘ Poems On The Underground , ’ a ruse to make tube travel a little less stressful , can not alleviate the strap-hangers ' gloom and frustration . |
| 24 | Last night I was in a furious rage because Edward asked me to go to his home this afternoon , and he would show me some flowers and nests he thought I would like to see . |
| 25 | Well , then how do you explain the night I put down a copy of Viz , turned on the telly , and settled in for what I thought would be a programme of smart , irreverent comedy ? |
| 26 | The Warrington by-election was held in mid-July , and that night I went with Neil Kinnock and David Owen to BBC Television Centre to await the result . |
| 27 | At night I would stand on the pavement opposite the Hospedaje Lisboa and look up at his window . |
| 28 | From then on I began to interpret each nocturnal sound as a footstep or as a bolt sliding back , and in the misery of the night I turned round and round in bed , my nightdress winding itself tighter and tighter about me , while a little voice inside me complained , ‘ I tried to do right , and now look what you 've done to me . |
| 29 | I will grow old gracefully , as we are advised ; and as I made ready for the night I tried to see myself as the little girls must have seen me . |
| 30 | And that night I fairly bounded up the stairs . |