Example sentences of "and [vb pp] to bed " in BNC.
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| 1 | He successfully accomplished his design by the simple expedient of walking out of the gaol disguised as a workman while his doctor pretended that he was ill and confined to bed . |
| 2 | A month later this apparently ‘ happy and contented ’ young lady was back in hospital ‘ in a very confused state and confined to bed ’ . |
| 3 | The following year , in Paris , Du Camp was ill , and confined to bed in his apartment . |
| 4 | All patients were in hospital and confined to bed for at least 24 hours after ERCP . |
| 5 | The tumult and excitement great , I dined , or rather supped , at the Carlton with a large party of the flower of our side , off oysters , Guinness and broiled bones , and got to bed at half past twelve . |
| 6 | For ten months after his father 's death he had unquestioningly taken the same train home , cooked a meal to be eaten at 7.30 ( as he had always done when his parents were alive ) , watched television , made a cup of tea at 9.30 ( as he had done when his parents were alive ) , and gone to bed . |
| 7 | ‘ Lesley 's home , twenty minutes ago , and gone to bed . |
| 8 | Henry Yaxlee said that on Friday night he 'd done the accounts till quite late , made a round of the stables about eleven-thirty and gone to bed soon after . |
| 9 | He had waited wordlessly in the kitchen until the daughter of the house had been soothed and put to bed . |
| 10 | If Olwyn did not go of her own accord she was taken , undressed and washed and put to bed forcibly . |
| 11 | I want him sent home and put to bed feeling good so that when he gets to me in the mornings , he 's feeling good ’ . |
| 12 | As for Mrs Dunstaple , she was so distraught that she no longer knew what she was doing and had been taken away , given a composing draught surreptitiously obtained from Dr McNab , and put to bed on her shelf in the pantry . |