Example sentences of "go [prep] sleep " in BNC.
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| 1 | This quotation does , however , sum up what many people might expect of the consequences of going without sleep for any length of time . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | No , you say , all in control , we are not going to sleep together . |
| 4 | Are you going to sleep in that pit all fucking day ? ’ |
| 5 | Some of these points are illustrated in Table 3.1 which compares the effects of sleep at night and during the day upon growth hormone release and deep sleep ( dominated by an external cause , the act of going to sleep ) and cortisol release and REM sleep ( dominated by the body clock ) . |
| 6 | The obvious fact that stressful circumstances , such as anger or danger , are not conducive to going to sleep is due to adrenalin to a large extent . |
| 7 | When one considers the symptoms ( going to sleep and waking up very early ) , the treatment ( advancing the patient 's life-style by 3 hour per ‘ day ’ until it is correctly timed ) , or the possible causes ( a clock that runs faster than average ) , it is seen as the opposite of Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome . |
| 8 | I 'm going to sleep ! |
| 9 | A spiral closing clockwise is going to sleep . |
| 10 | He would write in it underneath his sheets in bed before going to sleep . |
| 11 | He mentioned the ‘ war games ’ : such as the capturing of a fire-engine ; the cutting of telephone wires ; the jape of climbing unseen into a baker 's van and reconnoitring the town as the baker innocently made his rounds ; and penetrating the docks and going to sleep on a submarine . |
| 12 | Not half as much as I am of you ! thought Henry , as he ran his eyes down the rest of the manuscript ( she must have written it before going to sleep ) . |
| 13 | On 14 October Coleridge wrote abstractedly to John Thelwall that , ‘ I should much wish , like the Indian Vishna , to float about along an infinite ocean cradled in the flower of the Lotos , & wake once in a million years for a few minutes — just to know that I was going to sleep a million years more . ’ |
| 14 | Going to sleep or opening a book : an old garden , a childish fear , a face seen casually and quickly forgotten , would take possession of my mind as if there had been no time between . |
| 15 | Routines help a child to master daily tasks like feeding , washing or going to sleep , so that more can be achieved with less effort . |
| 16 | May have large and pus filled eruptions ; very restless and great difficulty going to sleep . |
| 17 | Then we would tell her the same story , in the same words , like a folk-tale : the ride on the motorway , the meal in the restaurant , her going to sleep and waking up to see sheep on the Derbyshire hills . |
| 18 | Kreitman and Chowdhury ( 1973b ) found that the most common reason given for not getting in touch with a helping agency was that the overdose was seen as a way of relieving strain or going to sleep . |
| 19 | This kind of reading may be the relaxing reading before going to sleep . |
| 20 | I 'm going to sleep for a few hours . ’ |
| 21 | But you 've got to understand — I 'm not going to sleep with you . |
| 22 | There 's always that barrier to be got over , when you are going to sleep with someone for the first time , and I just thought it would be a good time to get it over with . |
| 23 | The Concise Oxford Dictionary ( which I 'm sure you read every night before going to sleep ) says that if you respect someone you will avoid : |
| 24 | However , it 's always nice to be asked , and since so much of life consists of filling in that essentially dull period between waking up and going to sleep , it 's quite exciting to be wooed in the form of a tempting jaunt-ette to parts foreign . |
| 25 | Sixteen sentences which , said unhurriedly before going to sleep , will encourage a positive approach ( with acknowledgements to Dr Antony Waba ) : |
| 26 | Now , ’ he said , ‘ you going to sleep in the bed tonight ? ’ |
| 27 | Woke up this morning certain that we 'd lost : must stop eating cheese before going to sleep , or , for that matter , going to sleep before eating cheese . |
| 28 | Woke up this morning certain that we 'd lost : must stop eating cheese before going to sleep , or , for that matter , going to sleep before eating cheese . |
| 29 | As bedtime approaches , it 's as well to linger in the toilet to empty your bowels , or if your nerves are causing stomach jitters , take something , such as Imodium , to calm the situation down before going to sleep . |
| 30 | I 'm going to sleep . ’ |