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Example sentences of "wake [adv prt] in [art] " in BNC.

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1	I WOKE UP in a terrarium , half in and half out of a stagnant pool .
2	Luckily she had walked , or tottered , in the right direction , and after days which she could no longer recall , sleeping in barns and eating raw eggs when she could find them , she woke up in a Red Cross Hospital .
3	Two days later Charlie woke up in a hospital tent , some three hundred yards behind the line , to find a young girl in a dark blue uniform with a royal crest above her heart hovering over him .
4	One night about a month ago Tod woke up in an unusually desperate condition , half clothed , in fact , and with everything intolerably slewing around him — as if the bedroom was moored to a loosening capstan inside his gut , where his secret moans .
5	‘ But I woke up in the middle of the night and could n't get back to sleep , so I decided to bake a cake , after all .
6	‘ A couple of months before the wedding , I woke up in the middle of the night worrying about the arrangements , and the only thought in my head was ‘ Russia ’ .
7	When he woke up in the morning , the building was raised over him !
8	One night , later in their affair , O woke up in the middle of one of his long and noisy dreams and lay there for a long time looking at Boy 's face as he slept .
9	Freddie P. , a 53 year-old , single accountant presented in the casualty department of a local hospital complaining that , for the last four days , he had noticed beads of pus at the tip of his penis when he woke up in the morning .
10	More to him perhaps than the relief afforded by the crude sex was the fact that he woke up in the meagre home of a real working woman , warm like a picture by Chardin ; ‘ a wooden floor with a mat and a piece of old crimson carpet , an ordinary kitchen stove , a chest of drawers , a large simple bed . ’
11	I woke up in the afternoon of the ninth of February to tennis-ball-sized sore eyes and a dirty pink mist , and searingly painful lights .
12	Claudia , who can be seen on the show tonight , says : ‘ I woke up in the middle of the night in absolute agony .
13	Follow That Camel was filmed in May , but Gerald Thomas still woke up in the morning to find snow all over their Fort Zuassantneuf set .
14	‘ I woke up in the middle of the night .
15	His comment suggests that it is almost as if , when someone woke up in the morning , they were suddenly possessed of something mysterious in becoming conscious , like a metaphysical virus .
16	I had a friend who told me she fell for a boy when she woke up in the morning and realised he did n't snore .
17	We woke up in the middle of the night and , for a few minutes , we knew that love is everything .
18	She remembered nothing more until she woke up in the ambulance .
19	But when she woke up in the morning , the frog was still a frog .
20	I felt good when I woke up in the morning and I thought , ‘ Yeah this is it , I 'm going . ’
21	I woke up in the early hours of the morning and it was still there — the first thing that come into my head .
22	When he woke up in the morning , he ran out to me .
23	I woke up in the middle of the night and took all of Jay 's clothes out of the wardrobe .
24	He woke up in the middle of some night with this composed in his head .
25	I 'd been given a date for the baby to arrive but that came and went , but then I woke up in the early hours of the following Friday .
26	Two nights later he woke up in the small hours and lay there coldly .
27	‘ And once he woke up in the early morning , and saw a rat in the middle of the floor , looking at him .
28	She woke up in the morning feeling heavy-eyed and with a dull headache lurking behind her eyes .
29	After tossing restlessly for half the night , she managed to get a couple of hours ' sleep , and woke up in the morning feeling very angry with herself .
30	I sat on my bed feeling like the man who got drunk and woke up in the French foreign legion .