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 | They found me sitting in the hall , I had to be helped upstairs to bed . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I expect he will have gone home to bed . ’ |
| 6 | She 's gone home to bed , he growled in her ear : my mother says I 'm to see you back . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Flora had gone straight to bed and though Richard had stayed up for supper , he had been too worn out to eat much . |
| 9 | Pickerage had gone straight to bed when he got back , and that day , Monday , had been something less than his dottily exuberant self . |
| 10 | Perhaps he had gone straight to bed . |
| 11 | Normally , I would have returned indoors and gone meekly to bed . |
| 12 | Which were still dark ; the people had not yet gone upstairs to bed . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |