In a statement read out to court, Mr Pistorius said that he was "filled with horrible fear" that someone had sneaked in through an open window of the bathroom in the dead of night.
There are few experiences more thrilling than tracking and capturing a wild crocodile in the dead of night, on a river in the heart of the Central American jungle.
Rather than risk a frontal assault from the sea, he borrowed 23 native canoes, long sleek war vessels called pirogues, and crept up the coast towards the unsuspecting town in the dead of night in 1668.
Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi pushed Obamacare through the House of Representatives in the dead of night, announcing that Congress would have to pass the law so that we mere citizens could find out what was in it.
In the normal course of events, the motion would be nodded through in the dead of night - but not this time.
If proven, they were denied a Christian burial - and instead carried to a crossroads in the dead of night and dumped in a pit, a wooden stake hammered through the body pinning it in place.
He could run a hose down from the house, and, yes, he had put a hot-water line through the basement out to the back, and, in the dead of winter, with his 50 amp heater running and a drain in the middle of the concrete floor, he could wash his MG convertible, dreaming of tomorrow and his escape.
The number of Syrians fleeing to a Jordanian desert in the dead of the night continues to skyrocket, as officials warn of dwindling resources and a prolonged humanitarian crisis.
Many races are held to stave off cabin fever in the dead of winter, such as the longest running race in Concully, Washington in January, and the competition held at the Fur Rondy Festival in Anchorage, Alaska, in March.
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Then, without warning, the suave cicerone becomes a garrulous rogue cabdriver, bearing you off on a series of sinister detours (out by the airport, and in the dead of night).
So I set out to visit two of the most reputable bike shops in the area, money at the ready, in the dead of Black Friday.
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There's a schedule of pay bumps for overtime, for night shoots, for very-late night shoots, for wet work (rain or snow), for smoky work (cigarettes or manufactured haze) and, on some productions, for showing up in wardrobe that's out of sync with the seasons say, shorts and sandals for a beach scene in the dead of winter.
I'm one of the latter set: The notion of entering a store on Black Friday is about as appealing to me as a dentist appointment in the dead of winter, but I'm quite happy to pick off some good online deals.
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Nick Ramos, walking the streets in the dead of night alongside the Iraqi police.
The Israeli army still regularly escorts Jewish pilgrims here in the dead of night.
In the dead of night, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) administratively reclassified airport security screeners as Transportation Security Officers.
It was for them, as it is for us, difficult, in the dead of winter, to sometimes see spring coming.
You may not be in Paris, but New York has everything you need for a romantic outing, even in the dead of winter.
By tapping that temperature, Fort Knox can keep cool on hot summer days and warm up in the dead of winter.
"No wonder Obama revealed his choice in the dead of the night -- and buried this over the weekend, " she said.
If you live near a busy international airport, it could be very noisy, but usually in the dead of night, it gets quiet.
Fortunately, these storms did not occur in the dead of winter, or there may have been much greater life safety issues to deal with.
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In 2002, he got lost in a Wyoming forest in the dead of winter and after being saved had to have one of his toes amputated.
And then one day in the dead of the night, he takes me for a tour of his workplace, where he works the night-shift in a nursing home.
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The journey could take months, as families crossed rivers in the dead of night, traveled miles by foot, endured a rough and dangerous passage over the North Atlantic.
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"The fire started in the dead of night when the venue was deserted but the owner, Fiona Alper, and her son were asleep a matter of yards away, " he said.
Her divorced father, Murray (Alan Arkin, in top, mid-'70s form) is a lowly car salesman who drags his family around in the dead of night, moving from one cheap apartment complex to another.
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For the past 10 years, he's the guy you've seen on the sidewalk, with the great body, strumming his guitar and singing, dressed in a cowboy hat, cowboy boots and underwear -- and nothing else, even in the dead of winter.
For example, late last fall, Stonyfield Farm, a division of Dannon that makes organic diary products and is actively engaged in a range of anti-technology agricultural campaigns, ran a blog post demonizing the provision that its opponents now claim was written in the dead of night and slipped into the measure.
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