Example sentences of "[adv] [adv prt] to bed " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her husband considered pushing the dog on to the floor , thought better of it , and went sulkily off to bed . |
| 2 | Then he and Ranulf trudged wearily off to bed . |
| 3 | My father had gone off up to bed and she suddenly began to tell me what her life with him had been , the bribery and the humiliation and so on . |
| 4 | She looked as if she wanted to go back in but her mum kissed her goodbye and shut the door flat in her face and went off back to bed . |
| 5 | ‘ Go on up to bed ’ , his words being punctuated by hard slaps to my rump . |
| 6 | I have to be up early tomorrow , so if you 'll excuse me I think I 'll go on up to bed . ’ |
| 7 | Thank goodness for Iris , thought Melissa as she plodded wearily up to bed , for insisting that she cover herself by reporting Lou 's visit . |
| 8 | Dana felt so sick , he went straight back to bed , but had been there only a few seconds before he leapt out with a scream of agony : an autumnal , sleepy wasp had been brought in by the chambermaid among the bedclothes which had been airing at the window and had stung my friend on the bottom ! |
| 9 | No , well mostly toilet in the middle of the night but I go straight back to bed and go back to sleep again . |
| 10 | And I went back down to bed and I got up again at five , went back there then the baby wake up at seven so I come up and stayed up . |
| 11 | I had made them welcome , accepted their nonsensical stories because it did n't matter one way or the other , and then gone obligingly off to bed and left them to their meeting … |
| 12 | The evenings would usually finish on the terrace for a few quiet drinks with new found friends and then off to bed . |
| 13 | All right then.Come on then up to bed .. |
| 14 | Travis carried her outside , then back to bed when she called , handling her with a care that would have made her feel cherished if it had n't been so impersonal . |
| 15 | Anthony put an arm gently around her shoulders and urged her upstairs back to bed as though she were one of his charges from the orphanage . |