Sentence examples for in dead of from inspiring English sources

In 2006, as Virgin Media and ITV were negotiating their merger, James swooped in, dead of night, and bought 17.9% of ITV, seriously lousing up the Virgin deal.

Shades of Michael Redgrave in Dead of Night?

Did he wear it all the time, like Michael Redgrave with the ventriloquist's dummy in Dead of Night?

The third is the sequence in Dead of Night where ventriloquist Michael Redgrave is taken over by his dummy.

His film career began in 1938 with Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes and continued with roles in Dead of Night (1945) and The Browning Version (1951).

And later to the Chanctonbury Ring, on the South Downs, where something spooky happens in dead of night: human cries hovering above his little tent.

Set in dead-of-winter Minneapolis, a ready-made metaphor for (groan, shiver) the chill in Duncan's heart, the movie tells how life warms up when he goes to work at a nursing home.

The last United States Grand Prix was held in Phoenix in the dead of summer.

They appeared in the early morning, in the afternoon, in the dead of night.

In the dead of night in January, while we are tucked snugly in bed, unearthly sounds shatter the calm outside.

December 2014 Gunmen roused sleeping quarry workers in the dead of night in northern Kenya.