Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] bed " in BNC.
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| 1 | We sit together in bed . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've never been carried upstairs to bed . |
| 3 | Hand in hand , they moved upstairs to bed . |
| 4 | It was empty , Jo was by this time awake ( having crept earlier to bed ) , but she did n't move for fear of her father 's anger interpreting his shouts of rage , she gathered that her mother was gone and realising what damage he could consequently do to her and her baby , she knew that she had to escape . |
| 5 | The Commander stirred fretfully in bed and rearranged the blankets . |
| 6 | How much she 'd given him , cared for him , loved him , and now he was sitting in Eva 's house all cosy and radiant and looking forward to bed . |
| 7 | One advantage of Chinese celebrations is that they do not linger on , as everyone knocks off and goes home to bed at about 9 p.m . |
| 8 | I decided to go home to bed . |
| 9 | He was tired and wanted to go home to bed . |
| 10 | By the time he had found the way , it was after midnight , the clock had chimed ages ago , and Shelley could do nothing but walk up the hill to go home to bed . |
| 11 | Lying together in bed with creme brulee and champagne to hand , the only light coming from the soundless telly , curtains left open to the soft night , they talked over old times . |
| 12 | They had at last somehow got together in bed in a house momentarily empty of other people , neither of them expected ( momentarily ) elsewhere . |
| 13 | When the king had died peacefully in bed in 1968 he had been left exactly as he was for the first six months to make sure he was n't simply astral-travelling . |
| 14 | ‘ I ’ m going downstairs to bed . ’ |
| 15 | She undressed and climbed stiffly into bed . |
| 16 | ‘ He said he was feeling tired and was going home to bed . ’ |
| 17 | As Miss Easterbrook has pointed out , no-one could rely on his going early to bed last night and not realising until after the Lab opened this morning that his son had n't come home . |
| 18 | I do have to admit , though , that when I 'm working away from home it 's not a case of going out on the town — but going straight to bed to catch up on a good night 's sleep . |
| 19 | ‘ Will she be going straight to bed ? ’ |
| 20 | You 're going straight to bed . |
| 21 | She felt a proprietary interest in these two beauties lying there in bed . |
| 22 | but Bob and I did , I could , I could remember the day we moved in to a hundred and eleven er we 'd never , never been upstairs in a house before you see we 'd been brought up in a bungalow and we 'd never ever been upstairs and the thoughts of going upstairs to bed , you know , was fantastic |
| 23 | They found me sitting in the hall , I had to be helped upstairs to bed . ’ |
| 24 | I could n't argue with her , knowing I was in the wrong , so in a thoroughly bad mood I free-wheeled down the hill to the Waafery , determined to go straight to bed and to Hell with the dance . |
| 25 | I thought I told you to go straight to bed when I sent you home last night . " |
| 26 | He feels tired and goes straight to bed . |
| 27 | You 'll also sweat less in bed as air is circulating all round the body . |
| 28 | His post-operative progress was complicated by a chest infection and he found it very difficult to regain his usual level of activity because his arthritis seemed worse after the operation and a day or two spent largely in bed . |
| 29 | He would flop wearily into bed , and clang ! would go his iron bedstead against the radiator , and clang ! would echo Matthew 's radiator underneath , thus giving the game away . |
| 30 | She would get to work on Maxie just as soon as his presence at home should coincide with hers ; she had not seen him since returning from the tea , except when crawling wearily into bed . |