Example sentences of "he [verb] to bed " in BNC.

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1 Such a clock will wake an individual when a certain stage of the sleep/wake cycle is reached ; if he goes to bed late then that stage will be reached after a shorter period of sleep than usual .
2 They play around for a bit , and he goes to bed about half past six , and the little girl between seven and half past — and then I can sit down !
3 And then at last he goes to bed with a spoon , and he does n't dream . ’
4 He goes to bed late , thrashes around , snores and yanks the duvet over to his side .
5 in the morning till he goes to bed at night
6 Before he goes to bed he tapes a message to the fridge door : TELL POTTER .
7 He 's brought Goldilocks Ann , erm can he bring it home please because he reads it at night before he goes to bed .
8 Sometimes he does , just before he goes to bed but you have to put them in just the right place .
9 He goes to bed sometimes at eight o'clock
10 I mean , okay , he goes to bed about , what , eight o'clock or whatever ?
11 his problem is he goes to bed
12 Except for when he goes to bed
13 When he came to bed , they clung to each other , cold and clean and silent , feeling that even these small movements were overheard .
14 When he came to bed , hours later it seemed , she was wide awake .
15 That is a nightshirt he wears to bed .
16 How emotionally extravagant the Italians are , she thought fondly as , calming down , he returned to bed and gently made love to her .
17 ‘ Frank was a wild womaniser between marriages — but every girl he took to bed had to pass a bizarre test . ’
18 Mm ! as good as what he took to bed .
19 He went to bed to dream uneasily , and woke early as he always did in the early stages of a case before he had got the machine working properly .
20 Nigel was given a sleeping pill and some cocoa before he went to bed .
21 He went to bed and fell straight to sleep , dreaming of his mother 's soup .
22 Whatever time he went to bed , Kisling was at his easel working early next morning , painting agreeable , nostalgic portraits of women .
23 He went to bed , but it was too late — pneumonia had set in .
24 This led to a certain amount of friction , as Matthew was in the habit of practising on his flute when he went to bed , and this was not appreciated by the men trying to sleep over his head , let alone those in the next room to him , and one day in the Mess they protested strongly and threatened to flatten him if this continued .
25 He 'd been married about two months when he went to bed one night and woke up the next morning and he was back in the field and 17 again .
26 Then he went to bed , having checked the room for electronic bugs and found one in the base of the lamp .
27 " He went to bed earlier today because he had a cold coming on — or so he said .
28 He meant to check the street for signs of the Corsican before he went to bed but he was so tired he forgot .
29 After lunch he formed the Italian habit of taking a siesta and he went to bed early .
30 He went to bed , and he lay there , sometimes sleeping , sometimes shouting and crying .
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