Example sentences of "of going to bed " in BNC.

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1 In practice this means a regularity in mealtimes , times of physical and social activity , and times of going to bed and rising .
2 He even put the woman 's view to a certain extent : ‘ Miriam knew that their marriage was dead , but took comfort in the old rituals of going to bed together and getting up in the morning . ’
3 If you went out to dinner , you did n't think of how to get out of going to bed with him , it was how to get out of the car without kissing him . ’
4 George and Elizabeth were on the point of going to bed when they heard a knock on the door .
5 They are , therefore , the last people in the world prepared to lose weight , take exercise or be persuaded of the wisdom of going to bed each night with a bloody tennis ball bouncing around their neck .
6 A healthy young adult will typically have reached this stage of sleep within 20 minutes of going to bed , and sleep now continues to deepen , with larger and more persistent slow waves dominating the EEG record .
7 He walks up and down for a while outside , unable to settle to the prospect of going to bed .
8 He was on the verge of going to bed when he heard footsteps in the hall .
9 She paused , as the noises of going to bed reached them from downstairs — the snick of the light switch , the clang of the damper on the boiler , the sharp reports of bolts being shot home .
10 Lucky for me that I got out before you could entice me into the ultimate folly of going to bed with you . ’
11 But the idea of going to bed with a woman revolted him .
12 ‘ It almost broke me to hear you accuse me of going to bed with you to get a story .
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