Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] to sleep " in BNC.

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1 The man stepped back into the centre of the circle , and seemed almost to go to sleep .
2 The problem is this : why is the reflex increase in urine flow so much smaller at night when we lie down to go to sleep ?
3 Firelight generally ate a bit of her haynet and by the time he settled down to go to sleep she lay down as well .
4 He fetched his sleeping bag from the cornbin , where he kept it so the mice would n't make a nest in it , and curled up to go to sleep .
5 When I got down to the park , the combination of the cold and my long sleep that afternoon made me feel too restless to contemplate actually going to sleep again , so I just sat there on one of the benches , thinking .
6 Try not to go to sleep yet , love , ’ she whispered .
7 ‘ You do n't come here to go to sleep .
8 Well perhaps that 's why she did n't go to sleep .
9 I said to him : do n't go to sleep in the middle of rehearsals !
10 PEG : Do n't go to sleep .
11 Do n't go to sleep . ’
12 Do n't go to sleep , she told herself dozily .
13 Do n't go to sleep . ’
14 Now lie down , because , you know , if you do n't go to sleep he wo n't come . ’
15 And Norma used to say , I do n't put them to bed with Charlie because they do n't go to sleep , in and out of bed she tried the bed 's .
16 Do n't go to sleep darling cos your pizza 's nearly ready .
17 ‘ Had to go and leave my dandelions to look for you , now they 've all gone to sleep . ’
18 No , you leave it , if he does n't go to sleep he can come back down
19 Go to bed at half seven , she does n't go to sleep until about quarter past ten some nights reading
20 ‘ It 's all right , ’ Carrie stammered , ‘ she 's just gone to sleep , ’ and Hepzibah nodded and touched her chin lightly and lovingly and said , ‘ I 'd best go to her then , you stay here with Albert . ’
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