Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] in bed " in BNC.
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| 1 | Being with a prostitute is different from meeting a girl at a party and ending up in bed together , although there 's no difference in the mechanics of the sex . |
| 2 | Similarly , one minute I 'm a busy wide-awake person , and the next , when the decision has been made to go to sleep , I 'm a wide-awake person lying down in bed . |
| 3 | He may practise lifting the pelvis in order to turn sideways , which is an essential pattern for turning over in bed . |
| 4 | Would I perhaps welcome the security of a helicopter , or welcome the security of waking up in bed to find that it was all a dream and I had n't actually gone hill-walking at all because I had a date with Gerard Depardieu ? |
| 5 | And before I could resolve the problem I was struggling up in bed , in the pitch blackness , reaching for the shrilling telephone . |
| 6 | He walked out , closing the door firmly , and Maggie quickly switched off the lamp , huddling down in bed and waiting for her heart to right itself . |
| 7 | Flinging over in bed for the hundredth time , she tried to ignore the subtle , spreading ache in her stomach whenever she thought about Roman 's last hungrily demanding kiss … |
| 8 | The thought of her husband fumbling around in bed and urgently attempting to rouse her left her feeling suddenly depressed . |
| 9 | Geraldine hardly had time to boil the kettle , to make a cup of coffee , to toast a slice of bread between shots of Alan being rescued , wearing a blanket and sitting up in bed in pyjamas . |
| 10 | Would she have enjoyed him so much if she had thought the whole thing permanent ? she asked herself sternly now , sitting up in bed and shaking off the poppy and mandragora effect that thinking about that summer had on her . |
| 11 | Arty was sitting up in bed , his hair shining from a liberal application of something that looked and smelled like perfumed vaseline and came from a jar labelled Easi-Gro . |
| 12 | He realised how odd he must look , sitting up in bed , silver bristling his cheeks , coffee mug in one hand , long-barrelled pistol in the other . |
| 13 | ‘ There you are , ’ said Patrick , who was sitting up in bed . |
| 14 | When , at last , some nasty little spots began to appear , and he had spent the last night of the year sitting up in bed and holding his pyjama jacket away from his afflictions , Joan put her foot down . |
| 15 | She was sitting up in bed showing off her sunburn . |
| 16 | The bibulous and imperious Tennyson captained Hampshire until 1933 , and lived until 1951 , dying , it has been said , ‘ like an English gentleman , sir ; sitting up in bed , reading The Times newspaper . ’ |
| 17 | Sitting up in bed , I scanned the article , which the News of the World claimed was an exclusive interview . |
| 18 | He had gone up as usual to turn Willie 's lamp down and had found him sitting up in bed with one of his library books lying open on his knees . |
| 19 | She was sitting up in bed learning the chant which was to be tested the next day . |
| 20 | I was surprised to find Liza sitting up in bed reading one of her romances . |
| 21 | She was sitting up in bed , her glasses already adorning her gaunt face and her hair curled up tightly on rollers . |
| 22 | Piggott was sitting up in bed , laughing at reports in American newspapers that his legendary 44-year career is finished . |
| 23 | There was a long pause during which a kind of stage fright seized me and perhaps him too : we remained in our positions , Richard sitting up in bed and me standing at the window , looking at each other helplessly like actors who have forgotten their lines . |
| 24 | We had a première of Requiem , and one of the main critics had a real go at it — and at me — and I remember sitting up in bed with Andrew and just wanting to weep . |
| 25 | She was sitting up in bed , and she drank , spluttered , and grinned . |
| 26 | Philpott was sitting up in bed , his face hidden behind a copy of the New York Times . |
| 27 | She found him sitting up in bed , a score of his medical texts and notes scattered across the heavy coverlet . |
| 28 | Like the exiled Scots sitting up in bed with his cap on in Sidney Royal Infirmary , asked by the retired sister who visited people like him who had no friends how old he was , he says ninety two . |
| 29 | She was sitting up in bed listening to the radio on the headphones . |
| 30 | Then we had tea together with me sitting up in bed in my dressing-gown . |