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Example sentences for "night duty"

  • The orderlies on night duty, on the surgical side, were a lazy lot and slept the whole night through, more often than not on the floor of the kitchen.

  • I was still on night duty and, crossing over to Typhoids with some dressings, noticed how velvety the sky looked, with not a star to be seen.

  • Father did not like the sound, especially when he had to sleep on Sunday before going on night duty; so he offered to lend his new harmonium if they would take care of it and could find some one to play it.

  • When father was on night duty (the duty in those days was twelve hours at a time) he would be at home in the morning, and sometimes he would take us for Scripture.

  • When he was on night duty he always seized upon this as a sleeping bunk for meal hours.

  • He has one very special and ardent desire, which is to go on night duty; he is for ever counting up the days and weeks that must pass before his birthday will arrive, and so raise him to the age necessary for undertaking the shift.

  • Not many years ago the station buildings took fire, shortly after midnight, and most of the men on night duty in the department nearest the scene flocked out to help the station staff and the firemen.

  • One Army Sister in charge, myself next, and two staff nurses--one on night duty.

  • She is on night duty, and they are grappling with those awful cases all night as hard as they can go.

  • On Saturday I shall be going on night duty for a month.

  • He was again put on night duty, much to his satisfaction.

  • With those engaged on night duty he got midnight lunch from an old Irishman called "the Cake Man," who appeared regularly with his wares at 12 midnight.

  • Four of my companions and I were on night duty in the railway yard.

  • There have been times when the drivers were under a seriously heavy fire on night duty; times when trees have been shattered and fallen across the road and huge craters made in the soft earth of the adjacent fields.

  • Good woman," said my friend, "where's Mose?

  • The next stage of my life's work was a seven years' pastorate of Market Street Church in the city of New York.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    avoid the; decimal fraction; effort should; foramen magnum; grand officer; great work; little exclamation; mental energy; night attack; night before; night came; night duty; night fell; night home; night kiss; night like; night march; night school; night when; night work; original poetry; pretty little; public penance; seated himself; these cases; total abstinence