Example sentences of "up [prep] bed [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Helen sat up in bed beside him and thought .
2 McClair arrived in Switzerland with the Scottish squad for tomorrow 's World Cup qualifying match insisting ‘ I feel fine , ’ despite fears by his Manchester United manager that he may have ended up in bed at home .
3 Next day John is tucked up in bed at his flat in Tufnell Park .
4 The beginning , a long time ago , was quite clear : sitting up in bed at home , swinging her feet round to the floor , standing up — and a warm flood spilling down her legs so that she cried out in fright .
5 She sits up in bed for a moment , doing some complicated breathing and flexing of the abdominal muscles , learned in yoga classes , to calm herself .
6 However she did seem to get better , and no one could have been happier than my master , when he saw her sitting up in bed for the first time , and beginning to take an interest in the people and things around her .
7 A warm bath to soothe her tense , tired muscles , she decided , then she 'd curl up in bed for an hour with a book .
8 In January I ended up in bed for a month .
9 So I always sit up in bed for ages really wide awake , and I 'm reading and doing all sorts of thinking like things , and I 'd be talking to Ben , and he would say yeah , yeah , and he 's really vague as well , and I , I get really angry and then I think you can tell because then you tend to lean across and say , are you alright , are you alright , and I just find it makes it worse .
10 It woke Clarissa who sat up in bed with a start .
11 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 .
12 His goal , which squared the friendly 1–1 , was all the more remarkable considering he had been laid up in bed with flu for most of last week and forced to miss Sunday 's game against Torino .
13 HE insisted that the Church has never ruled that a priest should not have sex , only that he should not marry , ’ says Monika ( sic ) Kocanek by way of explaining how she ended up in bed with Fr Christopher O'Neill and then found herself pregnant .
14 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 .
15 She woke up in bed with a man with a red beard , but from the snide remarks and sideways looks of those fellow guests who were still there in the morning gathered that he had not been her only partner of the night .
16 " Tom Rooney told me to beware of you , not to end up in bed with you .
17 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 .
18 On returning home I retired , tucking myself up in bed with a hot toddy bottle .
19 There was a long pause while Finch committed murder in his heart , and then sat up in bed with his cello and played arpeggios .
20 He would end up in bed with Eloise ; he was hot with excitement at the thought of it .
21 He had me drugged and I … well , I woke up in bed with one of the girls .
22 She was sitting up in bed with a light shawl round her shoulders and a book on her lap , apparently quite composed .
23 The brass represents a woman sitting up in bed with two females standing on each side of the bed .
24 She was looking exhilarated herself , sitting up in bed with a welter of papers before her , her pen laboriously scratching over a sheet of parchment .
25 Earlier , for brief periods of the day , she had contemplated making up a foursome not unhappily , might have taken risks , might even have ended up in bed with someone , the classic holiday encounter .
26 If I end up in bed with Rory I 'll have a lovely time and then I 'll quit .
27 they come home they 've got ta snuggle up in bed with a book
28 Get tucked up in bed with a good book
29 This must be why his collection is , despite the inclusion of some beautiful and thrilling descriptive writing , less readable than those predecessors for which one reaches when tucked up in bed on a stormy night .
30 When the parade finally came to an end , Sergeant-Major Philpott congratulated them all and before dismissing the parade told the troops they could take the rest of the day off , but they must return to barracks and be tucked up in bed before midnight .
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