31.   Begin to marinate the night before, or the morning of, your dinner party.

32.   Both those speeches were delivered on key nights before huge national audiences.

33.   Bowness was asked whether he almost expected his team to fall behind early each night before trying to stage a furious rally.

34.   A blood vessel burst while he was playing a solo with the Skatalites at the Key Club in Hollywood the night before.

35.   A few nights before, he and his father had carried her four grandchildren from the overwhelmed house to safety.

36.   A newly sober Wall Street shudders when recalling the stock market bubble, as a groggy partygoer regrets the excesses of the night before.

37.   A storm blew in the night before our final day of skiing.

38.   A television station wanted Namath to revisit the Miami Springs Villas hotel, where the Miami Touchdown Club had held a dinner three nights before Super Bowl III.

39.   After several hours of skirmishing, the House quit for the night before voting on either the wage increase or the exemptions.

40.   Afterward, Martinez not only professed his innocence in the strongest possible terms, he also pleaded ignorance of the events of the night before.