Example sentences of "waking up [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Naps during the daytime and waking up during the night would both increase ; these changes are often observed . |
| 2 | Now America is the hottest market ; institutions that find Wall Street overvalued are waking up to the attraction of overseas investment . |
| 3 | But BBC officials are waking up to the fact that , while they have been allocated both of Britain 's channels for high-power satellite broadcasts , the kind that could be received direct into people 's homes , they have no monopoly on low-power transmissions from satellites , the kind that could be picked up by central receiving stations — and transmitted via cable to homes . |
| 4 | But whatever the motive , international business is at least waking up to the fact that a social conscience can be good for business . |
| 5 | People are now waking up to the fact that the natural world is our primary source and has got to be conserved if man is to continue . |
| 6 | Amidst all this shaking and trembling , respectable opinion was also waking up to the fact that new forms of life and organisation had emerged among the working class — both in a political , cultural and material sense . |
| 7 | At long last , the motor manufacturers are waking up to the reality that they ought to do more and that they too can assist in the reduction of car crime . |
| 8 | Here every delegate vote counts equally , and they are increasingly waking up to the power of the voting card . |
| 9 | Service managers are waking up to the value of experienced nurses whose understandable reservations about being out of date with current ideas and technologies prevent them from taking up their careers again . |
| 10 | She began by waking up on the tail-end of absorbing conversations with the white-robed monk who sat on the chair beside her , and it was n't long before the discussions became a full-time activity . |
| 11 | Their fortunes will become more divided than before : some are waking up from the party with happier memories than others . |
| 12 | Early this morning , in the darkness of his bedroom , waking up after the nightmare , he had almost given way to panic . |
| 13 | Gregory himself thought he had married Rachel when he became a monk ; but being pope was like waking up in the night to find oneself in the arms of Liah . |
| 14 | I 'm always waking up in the night . |
| 15 | Of course , one of the advantages of waking up in the night in a sweat is that you tend to have your best ideas whilst failing to get back to sleep . |
| 16 | on your own , you can cope with waking up in the night ca n't ya ? |
| 17 | I remember waking up in the middle of the night with a big smile on my face , feeling really pleased with myself , thinking that I 'd just had a wet dream . |
| 18 | Five and six in the morning , and you 're always waking up in the middle of the night cos you do n't know , you know , if summat 's happened or summat 's gon na happen . |
| 19 | He remembered waking up in the middle of the night , and then he remembered Miss Tomm walking into the dormitory and saying that the headmaster wanted to see him and Cartwright saying : " Eee , what 's Fleming done ? " |
| 20 | Maureen West says her daughter is still having nightmares and waking up in the middle of the night . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'd always had a fantasy about living with an artist and waking up in the morning and him standing there with a canvas . |
| 22 | Is their failure to remember dreams on waking up in the morning because they " really " do n't dream , or is it because they fail to remember them ? |
| 23 | I love camping and do n't feel that anything can compare with waking up in the morning with the day just a few hours on from dawn , dew still on the grass , so that when you open the tent flap the smell of a new day comes to you with the early morning sun . |
| 24 | And that 's you waking up in the morning . |