Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adv] to bed " in BNC.
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| 1 | They helped him up to bed , and he slept until nine o'clock the next morning . |
| 2 | She shooed him back to bed in front of her and he went meekly enough , entering with studied indifference , tapping his fingertips together as he went . |
| 3 | Jay grinned ear to ear , commiserated and ordered him back to bed . |
| 4 | Mum went over to him and delivered a hard slap then ordered him off to bed . |
| 5 | On their way to the magistrates they were stopped by Richard Baxter 's doctor who immediately ordered him home to bed . |
| 6 | Mrs Fraser once packed me off to bed as I was groggy with summer flu , and the four lads with me were sent off to do Ben Tee on their own — a perfect challenge for their particular hill experience at the time . |
| 7 | First she was terrified there was a burglar , then when she 'd searched the house from top to bottom she got mad and shoved me back to bed . |
| 8 | Ruth thought her aunt would have sat up all night to prolong the time with them , but her uncle — who had tried bravely all day to behave as though nothing untoward was happening — put his arms around his wife 's shoulders and led her away to bed . |
| 9 | Yeah she sent me up to bed . |
| 10 | They , too , had taken to helping in the hospital and Miriam could read on their pale , shocked faces some of the terrible sights they had seen ; after a little while she sent them away to bed . |
| 11 | That night on the houseboat , Kattina took her straight to bed . |
| 12 | When Suzie finally emerged she sent him back to bed . |
| 13 | After a while he made tea and brought it back to bed and they talked in a way she never could have with Mike , or anyone she knew , about Garstang 's book on the songs of birds and about Haydn 's Bird Quartet and Wagner 's bird music in Siegfried . |
| 14 | She made the coffee and brought it back to bed — a compromise . |
| 15 | In the end , she made herself a drink of hot milk with a dash of brandy and took it up to bed , taking along the hot water bottle for good measure . |
| 16 | Blanche drove on and three hours later she was safe in Dornaway Castle , where she seemed so shaken that they put her straight to bed . |
| 17 | said Miss Polly put her straight to bed |
| 18 | he said Miss Polly put her straight to bed , he knocked on the door with a rat a tat tat you do it like that |
| 19 | I wan na do all of them on me own so he phoned for the doctor to be quick , quick , quick , said Miss Polly put her straight to bed he wrote on a paper for a pill , pill , pill |
| 20 | I change the incontinence pad and put her back to bed . |
| 21 | She picked him up in her arms and carried him back to bed . |
| 22 | He was reaching-for the blue directory when Anne came back with Abigail in her arms , so Adam took her and carried her back to bed himself and tucked her in and kissed her . |
| 23 | Bedelia said as she bustled us off to bed . |