Example sentences of "wake [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IMAGINE my surprise on getting through the post an appeal on behalf of the very rich a personalised letter from Chris Patten MP exhorting me to give generously to the Conservative Party or else I might ‘ wake up on the morning after polling day to find Neil Kinnock and the Labour Party are in power ’ . |
| 2 | Dawn choir : Twitchers can wake up with the birds and enjoy the dawn chorus at 6am on Saturday at the Martin Mere nature reserve , Ormskirk . |
| 3 | The six-day separation from William and Harry over the traditional family holiday was the first time Diana had not seen her sons wake up to the excitement of Christmas Day . |
| 4 | And when they do wake up to the situation , they find that the combat against relativism is not a clean , hand-to-hand fight but a wearing war of nerves against an enemy who is everywhere and nowhere , friendly but deadly at the same time . |
| 5 | When will the BBC wake up to the possibilities open to it when covering the biggest annual golfing event to take place in Europe . |
| 6 | The thing is that , in a day or two , the Tollemarche Advent will wake up to the fact that you wrote it . |
| 7 | Because of the continuous pressure exerted by Irish , Black and other women over the years , some English Women 's Movement has died and that if they want must wake up to the fact that the middle-class , gentile English Women 's Movement had died and that if they want to go on referring to us as ethnic minorities then they will have to include themselves as a separate group . |
| 8 | I said to her , I was saying it to Mum earlier , if that was me with a family , I 'd wake up to the fact that you 're pa , I , I I , there 's too many here . |
| 9 | Tomorrow I shall wake up from the dream . ’ |
| 10 | So we 're working on the principal that even if the person does wake up in the operation they 're s not going to sue you cos they ca n't feel anything in the area you 're operating in . |
| 11 | At times I would wake up in the night , streaming with sweat , from a nightmare in which I relived that terrifying night in Valladolid . |
| 12 | I 'd wake up in the mornings , unable to face another day on that film . |
| 13 | Sometimes I 'd wake up in the middle of the night , hearing music in my dreams , and I 'd look down out of the bedroom window . |
| 14 | Three big movies ; drinking with Bogie ; flirting with Garbo ; taken up by Hedda Hopper , ‘ the most exciting success story since Gregory Peck 's contracts of ten years back ’ ; liked by directors ; known as his own man and a tough one ; married to a charmer and , now at peace with Olivia de Havilland , sitting on the floor at a last party telling her that he was ‘ terrified ’ of going back to play Hamlet , would wake up in the middle of the night sweating and shaking at the thought , unable to go back to sleep . |
| 15 | What should be expected post-operatively , e.g. if the patient will wake up in the ward or a recovery room ; whether to expect an intravenous infusion. 5 . |
| 16 | Of course you will wake up in the morning with a nervous disorder and a slightly lower IQ , but at least you wo n't have any itchy red lumps . |
| 17 | There was a holiday feeling about every day : we would wake up in the morning and say , ‘ What shall we do today ? ’ |
| 18 | I 'd wake up in the morning and.find a line of girls outside my front door . |
| 19 | There is nobody here who ca n't wake up in the morning and look at himself in the mirror . ’ |
| 20 | I know I 'll wake up in the morning and think this did n't really happen , but I am thrilled to bits . ’ |
| 21 | The reason was they set their alarm , they were terribly conscientious about setting their alarm clock so they 'd wake up in the morning to go to the exam , and er it was a very loud alarm clock so not the kind of thing you could sleep through , but come the morning of the exam the alarm went off and the student started to dream that they were out hearing church bells or something , you know they 're walking around hearing all these church bells , thinking is n't it nice , you know , it 's Sunday morning , oh I could go on sleeping . |
| 22 | Trouble is I go into such a deep sleep I ca n't wake up in the morning if I do , you know , take the herbal stuff , I , I 'm flat out in the morning , ca n't wake up . |