Example sentences of "woke [adv prt] in the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Two nights later he woke up in the small hours and lay there coldly .
2 I woke up in the early hours of the morning and it was still there — the first thing that come into my head .
3 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 .
4 ‘ And once he woke up in the early morning , and saw a rat in the middle of the floor , looking at him .
5 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 . ’
6 I sat on my bed feeling like the man who got drunk and woke up in the French foreign legion .
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