Example sentences of "night she " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each night she spoke to a waiter to order a meal ; each morning she asked for boiled rather than scrambled eggs for breakfast . |
| 2 | The first night she had slept there she had known . |
| 3 | Mrs Cullam did n't even look at him and when he asked her at what time her husband had come home on Friday night she said laconically , ‘ Quarter past eleven . ’ |
| 4 | There could never now be that bridal night she had dreamed of , that uninhibited leap into love and happiness . |
| 5 | When she returned to Margate after 10.30 that night she found a letter from Edward , posted before they had met , awaiting her . |
| 6 | It was no less astonishing that she should find room on her emaciated body to engrave in it , by her discipline , the wounds of the son of God … she gave herself such blows that her blood sprinkled the wails … and as she practised this penance daily every night she reopened her bleeding wounds by making new ones … |
| 7 | Tonight she had said nothing , so Frankie almost believed himself safe , yet he lived with the constant fear that one night she would make a horrible mistake and he would walk to his death in the inky shadows upstairs . |
| 8 | One night she brought him to see a horror film about the Living Dead , and he was so frightened by the zombies that he fled into the foyer in a panic . |
| 9 | All the way home , not listening though half-replying to Mrs Marchebanks 's chatter , Dorothea worried about it , and in the night she awoke , to find her eyes again thick with tears . |
| 10 | God knew what effect this would have on Mrs Browning , but as she went to bed that night she had no feelings of optimism left and already there yawned ahead a great void . |
| 11 | Thinking back , he recalled her distance , agitation and depression at that time ; her deep involvement with my poetry ; even a night she spent , unusually , away from home , with a ‘ friend ’ … |
| 12 | Last night she bowled along to the Royal Geographical Society to attend a lecture by Edward Whitley , a young writer recently returned from Madagascar with Gerald Durrell . |
| 13 | He said that to her every night she went up behind Pet , and every night she promised she would n't . |
| 14 | He said that to her every night she went up behind Pet , and every night she promised she would n't . |
| 15 | That night she dreamt again about the flood , and this time Nevil was one of those who drowned . |
| 16 | On her first night she went to eat at Rosalie 's , the cheap restaurant Epstein had recommended . |
| 17 | Inevitably one night she ended up by going to bed with him . |
| 18 | Many are portrayed as strong personalities : the Swansea shopkeeping grandmother , a ‘ wonderful old lady ’ who would tell historical stories of the Rebecca Riots ; the cultured , much-travelled Scots widow , a ‘ remarkable woman ’ who ran her late husband 's estate ; the toothless , pipe-smoking , ‘ mediumistic ’ Lancashire granny who believed in ghosts and practised second sight ; or the Scot ploughman 's wife who taught her grandson the Bible and catechism ‘ patiently , affectionately , and prayerfully … and at night she would put me to bed , wrap me snug and warm , and kindly teach me short prayers , psalms , and hymns . ’ |
| 19 | And this particular night she went into the yard , the yard door was shut , she went into the yard and was standing , looking at the moon — when the ticket lad came up with a ticket for me father . |
| 20 | A girl from another broken family ‘ used to sleep in the same bed as grandma — I was sleeping with her the night she was found dead the following morning . ’ |
| 21 | Every night she and Ranald helped the old man move four hives up the four miles of rough track to the heather moor . |
| 22 | Every night she greased her face , whited everything out and redrew it just as she had always done ; a heavy coat of pale powder , black mascara , black eyeliner , heavily pencilled black eyebrows , and then , finally , her famous scarlet lips , always perfect , always done in the same shade , Rouge Extrême . |
| 23 | That night she was perched on her stool wearing her cape trimmed with marabou over the dress . |
| 24 | It was Christmas Eve and Agnes had wondered over the last few days if she had heard aright on the night she had gone to the closet , because the next morning her father had come blithely into the kitchen and said , ‘ Your mother is having a lie-in this morning ; take her a cup of tea along and a bit of toast . |
| 25 | On the night she had heard the conversation she had felt sorry for them both , but not any longer . |
| 26 | On the day following the night she had spent with the gentle sisters , her father had stormed in and demanded that she return home , and she had replied , ‘ What ! |
| 27 | This , of course , delighted the child and every night she stood in the wings performing everybody 's act with them , and even at the end of two shows , she was as bright in the dressing room as she 'd been at the overture . |
| 28 | On Pack Meeting night she always changed early into her uniform , and now she was skipping gaily on the grassy path outside the cottage , practising fancy new steps for the Keep Fit Challenge . |
| 29 | At night she leaves her bed , lights a lamp , and gazes at it from all points of view . |
| 30 | At night she emerged , wandering the corridors of the upper floor , a lighted candle in her hand , wailing her grief . |