Example sentences of "[pron] [adv prt] to bed " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Hauling himself back to bed he lay awake for some time , before falling asleep . |
| 3 | Martin sends them off to bed , despite our protests . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I wanted to carry you off to bed and make love to you . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ Right , I 'll start doing something about supper now , but I 'll carry you back to bed first . ’ |
| 8 | Now , let Dad put you back to bed . ’ |
| 9 | Look , I 'll take you back to bed again and you try to get some sleep . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm going to put you back to bed if you do n't stop it . |
| 11 | Yeah she sent me up to bed . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 " . |
| 15 | ‘ You 're shivering , ’ he says , and carries me back to bed . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Mum went over to him and delivered a hard slap then ordered him off to bed . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | They helped him up to bed , and he slept until nine o'clock the next morning . |
| 21 | Jay grinned ear to ear , commiserated and ordered him back to bed . |
| 22 | She shooed him back to bed in front of her and he went meekly enough , entering with studied indifference , tapping his fingertips together as he went . |
| 23 | I was the one who would help him back to bed , I was the one who would read lines to him in the morning before he went on the set . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Hey Rico , maybe I should put him back to bed , huh ? ’ |
| 25 | She picked him up in her arms and carried him back to bed . |
| 26 | When Suzie finally emerged she sent him back to bed . |
| 27 | He was reaching-for the blue directory when Anne came back with Abigail in her arms , so Adam took her and carried her back to bed himself and tucked her in and kissed her . |
| 28 | I 'm putting her back to bed . |
| 29 | I tried to force her back to bed , but her fever made her surprisingly strong . |
| 30 | I change the incontinence pad and put her back to bed . |