Example sentences of "woke in the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Rachaela spasmed in long aching waves and woke in the bed in the flat , staring into darkness . |
2 | I woke in the middle of the night and walked downstairs . |
3 | erm In fact a simple formulation of this problem occurs in the opening paragraphs of À la Recherche , erm when the narrator writes this : ‘ When I woke in the middle of the night , I could not tell where I was , just as I did not know at first who I was . |
4 | She had hit him and fed him , shouted at him for being idle and comforted him when he woke in the night and was afraid . |
5 | I had drunk too much and woke in the night knowing I was damned . |
6 | They went to bed and when Lavinia woke in the night it was Timothy Gedge she thought of , not her lost child . |
7 | She woke in the night to find him lying flat on his back , the glow of a cigarette lighting up his face as he inhaled . |
8 | Leonora woke in the night , gasping , her body drenched with perspiration . |
9 | She woke in the night to hear the men barking out instructions |
10 | She woke in the half-gloom of early morning to find her body slicked with sweat and all the bedclothes flung off , her nightdress in such a tangle that the soft creamy skin of her thighs was exposed to anyone who cared to look . |
11 | woke in the sun to spin my claim |
12 | And woke in the morning knowing it , whatever it was , was over . |
13 | The bad thing was that when she woke in the morning she could remember nothing about it . |
14 | She could not assimilate , however hard she willed to do so , such strange food : and she woke in the morning hungry , but with her head still aching . |
15 | When I woke in the morning , we were drawing into the bank . |
16 | For example , it would make me very happy if I could see you every night across my dinner table ; if when I woke in the morning , I would hear you wish me ‘ Bonjour , chéri ! ’ in that so charming accent of yours . |
17 | I woke in the morning feeling weak and shaky , but quite normal . |
18 | I fell into an unhappy sleep , but when I woke in the morning , the family had gone . |
19 | Of course , he flung her off when he woke in the morning . |
20 | When she woke in the morning , she pulled on her dressing-gown and went down to the kitchen to make some tea . |
21 | When she woke in the morning , it was to clear blue skies , and she gave a sigh of pleasure . |
22 | When she woke in the morning , she felt a profound reluctance to meet any of the family in case she got drawn into any more dramas . |
23 | And yet … there was a night , long ago now , when a mist came in off the sea ; we slept uneasily , then woke in the dark , to hear the cold whine of sea magic in the air . |
24 | first I woke in the dark |
25 | Until then , he had been sure of his memories , certain that he could not have forgotten his parents and everything that had happened to him and reinvented the whole of his life before he woke in the attic . |