Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] to bed " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ You 'd better go to bed , ’ she said . |
2 | ‘ We 'd better go to bed . ’ |
3 | Debt has been proverbially frowned on : ‘ He that borrows must pay again with shame or loss ’ ; ‘ He that goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing ’ ; ‘ Out of debt , out of danger ’ ; ‘ Better go to bed supperless than rise in debt ’ ; ‘ Let him that sleeps too sound borrow the debtor 's pillow ’ ; and , but only grudgingly , ‘ Debt is better than death ’ . |
4 | She was not very good at smiling these days , and the unease disseminated by her unconvincing efforts led Eddie Duckworth to mutter to her in a corner , with a mixture of sharpness and sorrow , that perhaps she 'd better go to bed . |
5 | ‘ David , I think we 'd better go to bed . ’ |
6 | ‘ I think we 'd better go to bed , ’ Harold said , shuffling impatiently . |
7 | ‘ You 'd better go to bed , ’ he said curtly . |
8 | ‘ I 'd better go to bed , ’ said Leonora hastily , moving further away , but he held up his hand . |
9 | I think you 'd better go to bed . |
10 | I say , the reason I think I had bad dreams , recently , in the last sort of three nights , is because they 're the three nights I went swimming early , so I thought I better go to bed early . |
11 | And we 'd all go to bed . |
12 | Come on , you 'd better get to bed if you 're going to take us to England tomorrow . |
13 | Try to go to bed only when you 're tired but do not stay up past a certain critical time , say one hour after you would normally go to bed . |
14 | • When you feel tired in the evening , do not go to bed yet — find something interesting to do : an evening stroll , for example or a visit to friends . |
15 | ‘ Then why do you not go to bed ? ’ |
16 | If the PB is identified as being that the child does not go to bed until very late , the most suitable way of setting a baseline is to note over a week or two the actual time the child does go to bed . |
17 | The difficulty was rationalised by describing the antecedent to the PB as being that Olwyn did not go to bed earlier in the evening . |
18 | ‘ Why not go to bed and forget about it ? ’ |
19 | She did not go to bed . |
20 | In Brighton , the Prince Regent 's city , people do not go to bed early , and an observer would have noticed a small group of revellers making its way along the strand to the accompaniment of snatches of song and bursts of loud laughter . |
21 | What time did you finally go to bed ? |
22 | To be quite honest I could just go to bed . |
23 | and he used to come home looking as white as a sheet sick to the teeth and he used to just go to bed and collapse in a heap , he is n't strong enough to do it and it 's pointless for him to try but other than that he can do anything he fancies . |
24 | Norma got a huge big chip with chicken dip and then we brought Fred back something to eat as well , we were starving , and I got home last night and I was gon na make myself a sandwich but mummy-in-law was in bed so I says och I 'll just go to bed myself . |
25 | And when you do finally get to bed , you ca n't lock yourself in and you may be woken up at any time of the night on any pretext . |
26 | Do you usually go to bed at midnight ? |
27 | I did n't usually get to bed until 11 or 12 pm . |
28 | And nuns , I thought , would probably go to bed fairly late , so I rang the convent , asked to speak to the Mother Superior and explained my problem . |
29 | ‘ I shall probably go to bed for the afternoon , and think of you lot working . ’ |
30 | ‘ You 'll probably go to bed with an ache somewhere else if all my plans come to fruition , ’ she told him insolently . |