Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] to bed " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've never been carried upstairs to bed . |
| 2 | It was empty , Jo was by this time awake ( having crept earlier to bed ) , but she did n't move for fear of her father 's anger interpreting his shouts of rage , she gathered that her mother was gone and realising what damage he could consequently do to her and her baby , she knew that she had to escape . |
| 3 | Having got back to bed for a few hours , at 0800 Captain Moore arrives at his office in the RMP Headquarters , which is housed in the 1936 Olympic Stadium Barracks , and by mid-morning is feeling a bit smug about the noticeable dent in the paperwork on his desk . |
| 4 | And if she had not dreamed it , how had she got back to bed ? |
| 5 | They found me sitting in the hall , I had to be helped upstairs to bed . ’ |
| 6 | Hundreds of thousands had died in the post-war 'flu epidemic , so anyone who caught it — especially children — was bundled off to bed , as Clare was , with a hot water bottle , some aspirin , and a glass of hot milk with an eggspoonful of whisky in it . |
| 7 | She was packed off to bed by midnight but Mrs Burrows often worked patiently on till the early hours of the morning . |
| 8 | Cunningham had now been wheeled away to bed by an obliging porter , having reached that maudlin stage of inebriation which is most painful for others to bear . |
| 9 | I expect he will have gone home to bed . ’ |
| 10 | She 's gone home to bed , he growled in her ear : my mother says I 'm to see you back . |
| 11 | Stefan was in the front booking office ; not really his job but the front of house manager had given up and gone home to bed . |
| 12 | Nina Rozanov , tired , had gone off to bed . |
| 13 | Flora had gone straight to bed and though Richard had stayed up for supper , he had been too worn out to eat much . |
| 14 | Pickerage had gone straight to bed when he got back , and that day , Monday , had been something less than his dottily exuberant self . |
| 15 | Perhaps he had gone straight to bed . |
| 16 | Afterwards , when the boys had gone up to bed , he told Josh that Mabel 's death was an act of retribution on the part of Almighty God . ’ |
| 17 | Last night , after her parents had gone up to bed , and Aubrey very tactfully made himself scarce , I had a chance to ask her . |
| 18 | The dogs have been kennelled , and the bodyguards have either gone back to bed or have fallen asleep in the hall . |
| 19 | She says one boy has gone back to bed wetting because he 's so worried . |
| 20 | Normally , I would have returned indoors and gone meekly to bed . |
| 21 | Which were still dark ; the people had not yet gone upstairs to bed . |
| 22 | When the couple had gone upstairs to bed , Mr Stephens packed his bag for the next day 's outing , bolted the doors firmly — for many of the men stayed in Cockermouth drinking for three or four days and would roam the streets at night looking for somewhere to sleep — and then , as if to atone for those first designs he had on Emily , he picked out Silas Marner from his bookshelf and wrapped it up as a present for her . |
| 23 | But after almost everyone had tiptoed tipsily to bed , one couple — or so I was told over breakfast next day — stayed behind in the darkened dome-car and made love softly , to the rhythm of the rails . |
| 24 | Sent up to bed in disgrace , she had left the house within the half-hour , taking refuge first with Aunt Millie . |
| 25 | Damian Cronin , the 29-year-old London Scottish lock , was suffering from flu and on arrival at the team 's hotel was sent straight to bed . |
| 26 | The revellers in the foyer , who included some of the more anxious in decorous nightwear , were shooed upstairs to bed by Alastair Goodlad , once the Party 's deputy Chief Whip , whose butlerian rotundity made him quite admirably suited to the task . |
| 27 | By midnight , much of the cast had drifted off to bed in twos and threes . |
| 28 | The nursing staff said she got off the delivery table herself , and could not understand why she was ordered back to bed . |