Example sentences of "woke [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I woke up in the middle of the night and could n't get back to sleep , so I decided to bake a cake , after all . |
| 2 | ‘ A couple of months before the wedding , I woke up in the middle of the night worrying about the arrangements , and the only thought in my head was ‘ Russia ’ . |
| 3 | When he woke up in the morning , the building was raised over him ! |
| 4 | One night , later in their affair , O woke up in the middle of one of his long and noisy dreams and lay there for a long time looking at Boy 's face as he slept . |
| 5 | Freddie P. , a 53 year-old , single accountant presented in the casualty department of a local hospital complaining that , for the last four days , he had noticed beads of pus at the tip of his penis when he woke up in the morning . |
| 6 | More to him perhaps than the relief afforded by the crude sex was the fact that he woke up in the meagre home of a real working woman , warm like a picture by Chardin ; ‘ a wooden floor with a mat and a piece of old crimson carpet , an ordinary kitchen stove , a chest of drawers , a large simple bed . ’ |
| 7 | I woke up in the afternoon of the ninth of February to tennis-ball-sized sore eyes and a dirty pink mist , and searingly painful lights . |
| 8 | Claudia , who can be seen on the show tonight , says : ‘ I woke up in the middle of the night in absolute agony . |
| 9 | Follow That Camel was filmed in May , but Gerald Thomas still woke up in the morning to find snow all over their Fort Zuassantneuf set . |
| 10 | ‘ I woke up in the middle of the night . |
| 11 | His comment suggests that it is almost as if , when someone woke up in the morning , they were suddenly possessed of something mysterious in becoming conscious , like a metaphysical virus . |
| 12 | I had a friend who told me she fell for a boy when she woke up in the morning and realised he did n't snore . |
| 13 | We woke up in the middle of the night and , for a few minutes , we knew that love is everything . |
| 14 | She remembered nothing more until she woke up in the ambulance . |
| 15 | But when she woke up in the morning , the frog was still a frog . |
| 16 | I felt good when I woke up in the morning and I thought , ‘ Yeah this is it , I 'm going . ’ |
| 17 | I woke up in the early hours of the morning and it was still there — the first thing that come into my head . |
| 18 | When he woke up in the morning , he ran out to me . |
| 19 | I woke up in the middle of the night and took all of Jay 's clothes out of the wardrobe . |
| 20 | He woke up in the middle of some night with this composed in his head . |
| 21 | I 'd been given a date for the baby to arrive but that came and went , but then I woke up in the early hours of the following Friday . |
| 22 | Two nights later he woke up in the small hours and lay there coldly . |
| 23 | ‘ And once he woke up in the early morning , and saw a rat in the middle of the floor , looking at him . |
| 24 | She woke up in the morning feeling heavy-eyed and with a dull headache lurking behind her eyes . |
| 25 | After tossing restlessly for half the night , she managed to get a couple of hours ' sleep , and woke up in the morning feeling very angry with herself . |
| 26 | I sat on my bed feeling like the man who got drunk and woke up in the French foreign legion . |
| 27 | Since they had started paying ‘ interest ’ , they no longer woke up in the middle of the night squealing with fright from nightmares . |
| 28 | ‘ … so the doctor gave him some pills , ’ Martin said , ‘ and when he woke up in the middle of the night there was a beautiful girl on his bed … diaphanous nightie , trailing blonde hair , the lot … ’ |
| 29 | It was only when she was reasonably sober , when , say , she woke up in the morning , head throbbing , tongue parched , that she suspected in retrospect that she had n't been quite so rationally conscious of those selfsame thoughts and actions … |
| 30 | I woke up in the middle of the night to find that I was completely and utterly saturated . |