Example sentences of "wake [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was fine , but solid evidence will have to be provided that the scene in which Palin woke up on the Orient Express to the knock of brioches at the door was the real thing . |
| 2 | Jessamy woke up on the morning of her twenty-fourth birthday and decided it was time she put her life in order . |
| 3 | Several times in the night she had this bad dream and once she woke up on the floor . |
| 4 | He passed out , and woke up on the ground having fallen 1800 feet into a fir tree and five feet of snow . |
| 5 | I expect I woke up at the wrong time . |
| 6 | I woke up at the part where he was telling me it had been a mindless fling , and I should n't get upset over it . |
| 7 | Now — you woke up with a sense of relief and surprise that you were still there , you got up , brushed your teeth , and before you knew it you were watching television . |
| 8 | Westminster 's station master apparent David Howell ( first class hons in economics at Cambridge , who happens to represent commuter Guildford as well as being Secretary of State for Transport ) , woke up with a jolt . |
| 9 | The FT-SE 100 woke up with a bang to finish 20.3 points ahead at a record 2847.8 , after an earlier 1.9 point downturn . |
| 10 | She woke up with a little start , wiping the corner of her mouth with her hand . |
| 11 | The soldier woke up with a snort ; his head jerked up and he looked at us inquiringly . |
| 12 | I often used to get stomach-ache if I had n't had enough to eat so when I woke up with a pain I thought maybe I was hungry again , but because the baby was due any day I thought it best to tell my mum . |
| 13 | Marek was asleep at the time but as soon as the woman hit the bed Nowak woke up with a scream . |
| 14 | Lucien woke up with a racing heart . |
| 15 | Jessamy woke up with a sudden start . |
| 16 | Maria Teresa : When her mother died , Black Irene gave out such a blood-curdling scream in the middle of the night that we all woke up with a jump . |
| 17 | Woke up with a hangover but it was a lovely day outside . |
| 18 | You Judas ! ’ shouted the devil-man , and all the piglets woke up with a start and hurtled round the lock-up colliding with prisoners and shrieking like souls in torment : a blitz of piglets . |
| 19 | He woke up with a curse and with flailing fists . |
| 20 | The magician woke up with a yell of pain . |
| 21 | Even when I played through proxies he must have still known it was me , because one day , 'bout the end of my second year on Mars , I woke up with the blues just like you did . |
| 22 | The Dormouse woke up for a minute and then went to sleep again . |
| 23 | On Wednesday David Howell , the Energy Secretary , was forced to withdraw the threat of pit closures and on Thursday we woke up to a dreadful press accusing us of ignominious surrender . |
| 24 | On Easter Monday 1972 , I woke up to a new view of the world . |
| 25 | The societies woke up to the threat and realised that the public was no longer naturally coming to them for mortgages . |
| 26 | By the time they woke up to the fact that many people would be only 2p a week better off , Smith had gained the headlines with the claim that eight out of 10 families gained . |
| 27 | The morning I was due to leave — the day Chernenko died — I woke up to the sound of Russian troops singing marching songs from the nearby barracks . |
| 28 | But when parliament woke up to the electronic age and first allowed its proceedings to be broadcast in 1978 , nobody was sure whether those broadcasts were also privileged . |
| 29 | I was dismayed when I woke up to the fact that the plan was not to wait or extend the building but to send twenty people and their children away to start another church . |
| 30 | It 's about time the music press woke up to the fact that rave is the new heavy metal , sucking innocents in and destroying their musical tastebuds . |