Example sentences of "[adv] went to sleep " in BNC.

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1 Abraham finally went to sleep on the waggon .
2 ‘ He just went to sleep . ’
3 Ellen just went to sleep .
4 We sat before him looking at him with respectful eyes ( that is , all but one of us , who usually went to sleep as soon as the class started ; she was not just closing her eyes , she was fast asleep ) .
5 Quinn eased the armchair away from the wall , grunted a few times for the benefit of the wall microphone , switched off the tape-recorder , rolled on to the bed and genuinely went to sleep .
6 He always went to sleep with his still burning , so he got through a lot more than she did .
7 When he spent the Whitsun weekend with John Hayward in Cambridge , he looked " very haggard and washed out and dispirited " and simply went to sleep on Hayward 's bed for two afternoons .
8 The Dormouse woke up for a minute and then went to sleep again .
9 Carrington watched the sea for the first two hours , enchanted by the Scandinavian night , then went to sleep .
10 Billy , the Havildar-Major , was a tiny , wizened man , always smiling and very devout , who never went to sleep without first singing softly to himself all three verses of ‘ Jesus loves me , this I know ’ .
11 And then , I never went to sleep but I went sleepy but not did n't actually sleep .
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