Example sentences of "sit up in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had sat up in bed , panicked by the nightmare , weeping . |
| 2 | When she returns from theatre she is rather sleepy but is allowed to take fluids as soon as she feels able to sit up in bed . |
| 3 | About 3 hours after her return to the ward she was helped to sit up in bed , propped up on pillows . |
| 4 | Later she was assisted to sit up in bed . |
| 5 | I was hardly likely to sit up in bed and say ‘ Do come in , have we met ? ’ was I ? ’ |
| 6 | I got into bed , and I was really nice and warm , and I was lying back , I do n't really like to lie back when I 'm doing something , I like to sit up in bed , I do n't generally do work in bed . |
| 7 | ‘ Are you going to sit up in front there , all by yourself , Rainbow , darling ? ’ she asks . |
| 8 | Er and if you did n't start at that early hour you 'd , you 'd , you 'd never , they used to get , sit up in bed , have a wash , then lie down again and go to sleep . |
| 9 | I sit up in bed and swing my legs to the floor . |
| 10 | My hair sticks to it when I sit up in bed . |
| 11 | I sit up in bed and switch the light on , shaken awake by pure embarrassment . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The great lady sits up in bed stark naked , with Sien 's face and torso , and we have no way of knowing why . |
| 15 | Do n't remember going to bed , but I must have done because I am sitting up in Nigel 's parents ' bed writing my diary . |
| 16 | The previous night she had dreamed she was sitting up in Nathan 's bunk , holding a baby to her breast . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ There you are , ’ said Patrick , who was sitting up in bed . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | She was sitting up in bed showing off her sunburn . |
| 24 | 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 . ’ |
| 25 | Sitting up in bed , I scanned the article , which the News of the World claimed was an exclusive interview . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | She was sitting up in bed learning the chant which was to be tested the next day . |
| 28 | I was surprised to find Liza sitting up in bed reading one of her romances . |
| 29 | She was sitting up in bed , her glasses already adorning her gaunt face and her hair curled up tightly on rollers . |
| 30 | Piggott was sitting up in bed , laughing at reports in American newspapers that his legendary 44-year career is finished . |