Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to bed " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the horse was bedded down it was time for Sirrell to celebrate properly , and most of Nantgaredig turned up to assist : he eventually got to bed at 3 a.m . |
| 2 | By March he was out again , and back at his office in Faber and Faber , although he was prudent enough to retire to bed early in the evening : with a complaint which had no organic cause , he could not be certain that he had been cured " . |
| 3 | Turned on the radio to listen to a play , but it was stupid , so went to bed . |
| 4 | They 'd all gone to bed the night before when I 'd returned from a last noggin with Harry . |
| 5 | Not in front of the children but later , when they had all gone to bed and to sleep . |
| 6 | Dolly , Tom and Carrie had all gone to bed , but Seb 's knocking brought Tom to the bedroom window complaining about being disturbed at such a late hour . |
| 7 | ‘ You 'd better go to bed , ’ she said . |
| 8 | ‘ We 'd better go to bed . ’ |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ David , I think we 'd better go to bed . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I think we 'd better go to bed , ’ Harold said , shuffling impatiently . |
| 13 | ‘ You 'd better go to bed , ’ he said curtly . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'd better go to bed , ’ said Leonora hastily , moving further away , but he held up his hand . |
| 15 | I think you 'd better go to bed . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | And I listen at the wall for sounds from Jancey , but it 's as quiet as a pillow , and she 's obviously gone to bed . |
| 18 | She closed the living-room door before answering , even though Dickie had long gone to bed . |
| 19 | And we 'd all go to bed . |
| 20 | Come on , you 'd better get to bed if you 're going to take us to England tomorrow . |
| 21 | ‘ So come to bed . ’ |
| 22 | She normally goes to bed about half past seven . |
| 23 | There was a very long and comfortable settee in front of the window which had a view of the River Thames which mesmerized me to such an extent that I could scarcely tear myself away to go to bed . |
| 24 | But when I finally got to bed again it was well into Monday morning and it was Monday afternoon when I surfaced and there was a policeman on the door and it had n't been a nightmare after all . |
| 25 | ‘ I was just going to bed when the police came . |
| 26 | Window firm director Norman Waller , 34 , was just going to bed when he saw youths damaging a Vauxhall Cavalier belong to neighbour Bob Fay , Newcastle Crown Court was told . |
| 27 | I was just going to bed , he said . |
| 28 | It is 0320 before the team finally get to bed , with the Captain promising them a lie-in until 1000 hours . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Assistant Chief Constable David Mellor , aged 52 , who is shortly to take up a post as deputy chief constable of South Wales , had just gone to bed when a device planted below the window of a living room exploded at 1.20am . |