Example sentences of "[noun sg] go [prep] bed " in BNC.

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1 During these nights , as all around me was silent — most of the neighbourhood went to bed at ten-thirty — I entered another world .
2 ( Suddenly telling a child to go to bed in the middle of an exciting TV programme is asking for trouble .
3 The sun goes to bed at night .
4 Keeping a note of the times the child goes to bed .
5 Problems of late bedtimes are best measured by recording the time the child goes to bed and soiling is best measured by frequency .
6 After this outburst Angel went to bed early and thought about the situation .
7 It was perhaps less a prayer than a wish , in its final form ; but by the time the Queen went to bed that evening , it looked almost as if she had been heard .
8 By the end of the day Harriet was not surprised when the girl went to bed early , pleading a headache which her mother did not think was entirely due to gin and tonic at ten thirty in the morning .
9 Too frightened to tell the other servants what she had seen and heard , the girl went to bed and cried herself to sleep .
10 He had been frightened until Ivan explained to him that the sun went to bed like everyone else and would be up and shining for them in the morning .
11 ‘ You just expressed a somewhat urgent desire to go to bed . ’
12 No need to go to bed when Amabel went because she did not like to keep the servants sitting up and had had nightmares , ever since Gemma 's birth , about accidents with bedtime candles .
13 It is all right for the hero and heroine to go to bed together , although if they actually make love before they are married , a wedding should follow immediately .
14 Residents have every right to go to bed when they choose , not when it 's most convenient for staff .
15 At eleven o'clock the cook and the housekeeper went to bed .
16 For God 's sake go to bed and try and sleep it off before dinner .
17 When eventually she left the sitting-room to go to bed , she pattered into the hall , knowing in advance that she was in for another wretched night of it .
18 It had felt strange the previous night going to bed without wearing his underpants ; but this odd suit felt even stranger .
19 No , last night going to bed he 's been , he 's been smashing until Saturday
20 The three who had to go to school in the morning went to bed .
21 He would n't be the first homosexual man to go to bed with a woman in the hope of proving he was n't gay .
22 But coming up first , fashion goes to bed as carol Smillie takes her pick of the pyjamas .
23 Even without pressure to go to bed , evenings with Olwyn are very trying .
24 ‘ I 'm not in line to go to bed with you in order to keep my job ! ’ she told him bluntly .
25 Still you lot going to bed with it tonight are you ? .
26 A few minutes later they were given a direct order to go to bed — and if you disobey a direct order you 're instantly put on report .
27 Students at London University were almost unanimous today in saying a couple going to bed together did n't necessarily mean the woman consents to sex .
28 They went to the Goose Green home of a couple , with whom he had been out drinking , and after the couple went to bed Manning raped her .
29 When Marguerite went to bed , Jenna went too , but sleep was far from her .
30 It sounded a senior voice ; Maxim went to bed .
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