Example sentences of "on the bed " in BNC.
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| 1 | I passed her a cup and then perched on the bed with mine . |
| 2 | But Jay sat on the bed , she had brought brandy liqueur and crystal glasses . |
| 3 | After a while , Jay could no longer pick her out against the distant sand , and she lay on the bed , under a sheet , downed the last of her drink , and slept . |
| 4 | Geraldine sat on the bed and thought for a moment . |
| 5 | She sat down on the bed . |
| 6 | She went indoors to her room , lay on the bed and looked at the ceiling until a nurse brought lunch . |
| 7 | Rodney sat on the bed . |
| 8 | She would lie on the bed — just for a moment , she thought — before starting dinner . |
| 9 | I slept on the bed with them but they kept falling out , so they bought another bed , for themselves . |
| 10 | ‘ She looked at her step-mother but uttered not a single word ; she simply picked up our big drap-de-dames green shawl ( it 's a shawl we all use , a drap-de-dames one ) , and covered her head and face entirely with it ad lay down on the bed with her face to the wall , ad her little shoulders and her whole body were trembling . ' |
| 11 | ‘ Very good , ’ I replied , placing my pack on the bed . |
| 12 | Sweeney 's encounter with ‘ the epileptic on the bed ’ parallels that of Nausicaa not with Odysseus but , more shockingly , with ‘ Polypheme ’ . |
| 13 | just as there is a tension between the evolutionary ups and downs of the hairy epileptic on the bed who ‘ Jacknifes upward ’ , and the shaving ‘ Sweeney Erect ’ , so there is set against the prostrate unreason indicated by ‘ The epileptic on the bed [ who ] / Curves backward , clutching at her sides , another woman who later walks upright : |
| 14 | just as there is a tension between the evolutionary ups and downs of the hairy epileptic on the bed who ‘ Jacknifes upward ’ , and the shaving ‘ Sweeney Erect ’ , so there is set against the prostrate unreason indicated by ‘ The epileptic on the bed [ who ] / Curves backward , clutching at her sides , another woman who later walks upright : |
| 15 | Lying on the bed , naked and waiting , Maggie lost her nerve . |
| 16 | The light was on and Phoebe was sitting on the bed with Maggie 's arms wrapped convulsively around her , her scarlet and sparkling body thus partly hidden from her grandmother . |
| 17 | Marie 's sitting up on the bed with a packet of fags . |
| 18 | Then I sort of hold her hands tight while she rocks back and forward on the bed . |
| 19 | She 's lying on the bed , blowing smoke at the ceiling . |
| 20 | I go back to my room and lie on the bed . |
| 21 | My sleeping bag 's on the floor , and I shove it on the bed quick . |
| 22 | He gazed at Frau Nordern as she squeezed past the desk and sat on the bed . |
| 23 | Frau Nordern moved uneasily on the bed . |
| 24 | Nurse Bodkin bustled over to her and put her arm around her shoulder , making soothing noises and easing her into a sitting position on the bed . |
| 25 | Her father , a neat , spare man , sat on the bed and stroked her hand and said very little beyond the commonplace , putting all his affection and concern into that quiet gesture . |
| 26 | He sat down on the bed and let his arms sag . |
| 27 | She sat on the bed , as on the sand of some ebb sea , surrounded by a vast loneliness . |
| 28 | She came over and sat on the bed beside him . |
| 29 | Head clasped in hands , he sprawled on the bed , gasping for air , as the room swayed crazily from side to side . |
| 30 | She sat on the bed , mopping his brow . |