Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] to bed " in BNC.
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1 | They , too , had taken to helping in the hospital and Miriam could read on their pale , shocked faces some of the terrible sights they had seen ; after a little while she sent them away to bed . |
2 | A punch would be delivered and Ricky , thinking this had ended the row would take himself off to bed only to find the next minute that Minton was emptying a bottle of water over him . |
3 | Hauling himself back to bed he lay awake for some time , before falling asleep . |
4 | Martin sends them off to bed , despite our protests . |
5 | Tonight she 's putting them early to bed , before tuning in to the American election . |
6 | Mrs Fraser once packed me off to bed as I was groggy with summer flu , and the four lads with me were sent off to do Ben Tee on their own — a perfect challenge for their particular hill experience at the time . |
7 | I wanted to carry you off to bed and make love to you . ’ |
8 | But he was very kind , and brought me all the M & B tablets he could find , with instructions to get you back to bed , and to keep you from other children , and give you M & B every four hours until you were sick , and then try them again very slowly . |
9 | ‘ Right , I 'll start doing something about supper now , but I 'll carry you back to bed first . ’ |
10 | Now , let Dad put you back to bed . ’ |
11 | Look , I 'll take you back to bed again and you try to get some sleep . |
12 | ‘ I 'm going to put you back to bed if you do n't stop it . |
13 | Well I 'm cutting David 's hair tonight , I do n't want want you late to bed . |
14 | ‘ No , but knowing you , if you go over your limit we 'll have to tie you down before carrying you upstairs to bed . ’ |
15 | Yeah she sent me up to bed . |
16 | First she was terrified there was a burglar , then when she 'd searched the house from top to bottom she got mad and shoved me back to bed . |
17 | I must have moaned : she looked at me coldly as if suspecting some kind of trickery , and then her face altered and she came across the room to take my arm and help me back to bed . |
18 | Immediate post-operative speech was limited to " yes ' and " no " but after two weeks the patient was able to say " no , I do n't want any " and " put me back to bed " . |
19 | ‘ You 're shivering , ’ he says , and carries me back to bed . |
20 | Unlike his wife , who had taken herself off to bed like one of the heroines in the penny dramas , he , James Grierson , was going to do something . |
21 | Ruth thought her aunt would have sat up all night to prolong the time with them , but her uncle — who had tried bravely all day to behave as though nothing untoward was happening — put his arms around his wife 's shoulders and led her away to bed . |
22 | Mum went over to him and delivered a hard slap then ordered him off to bed . |
23 | On their way to the magistrates they were stopped by Richard Baxter 's doctor who immediately ordered him home to bed . |
24 | She snuggled down and began to drift to sleep , memories of Alain holding her here as she wept on that first day , memories of him bringing her up to bed after he had kissed her in the kitchen , fluttering like moths in the light , easing her into sleep . |
25 | Sally-Anne tossed her head at this , and repeated that it was all nothing — ‘ And really you should not make such a fuss over so little ’ — but all the same she was happy to let Matey help her up to bed ; she felt strangely weak , and the thought of Sunday lunch and washing up , and all the work to be done before the day was over , made her feel worse than ever . |
26 | They helped him up to bed , and he slept until nine o'clock the next morning . |
27 | Blanche drove on and three hours later she was safe in Dornaway Castle , where she seemed so shaken that they put her straight to bed . |
28 | That night on the houseboat , Kattina took her straight to bed . |
29 | Said Miss Polly send her straight to bed |
30 | said Miss Polly put her straight to bed |