Example sentences of "[vb mod] wake [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | America is trillions of pounds in debt , economic growth is slow at best around the world , the massive defence industry must wake up to a new post-Cold War world and the nation 's infrastructure is in deep disrepair . |
2 | Because of the continuous pressure exerted by Irish , Black and other women over the years , some English Women 's Movement has died and that if they want must wake up to the fact that the middle-class , gentile English Women 's Movement had died and that if they want to go on referring to us as ethnic minorities then they will have to include themselves as a separate group . |
3 | Madame swept in while Ellie hesitated , afraid that any moment she might wake up from a dream . |
4 | I know I 'll wake up in the morning and think this did n't really happen , but I am thrilled to bits . ’ |
5 | One day he 'd wake up with a hole in his head , but that would n't change anything . |
6 | I said to her , I was saying it to Mum earlier , if that was me with a family , I 'd wake up to the fact that you 're pa , I , I I , there 's too many here . |
7 | I 'd wake up in the morning and.find a line of girls outside my front door . |
8 | I 'd wake up in the mornings , unable to face another day on that film . |
9 | Sometimes I 'd wake up in the middle of the night , hearing music in my dreams , and I 'd look down out of the bedroom window . |
10 | The reason was they set their alarm , they were terribly conscientious about setting their alarm clock so they 'd wake up in the morning to go to the exam , and er it was a very loud alarm clock so not the kind of thing you could sleep through , but come the morning of the exam the alarm went off and the student started to dream that they were out hearing church bells or something , you know they 're walking around hearing all these church bells , thinking is n't it nice , you know , it 's Sunday morning , oh I could go on sleeping . |
11 | She used to wake up in the morning they were red raw both of them ! |
12 | Tomorrow I shall wake up from the dream . ’ |
13 | IF Little Nemo in Slumberland ever met Tank Girl he would wake up with a start and ensure he never perchanced to dream again . |
14 | At times I would wake up in the night , streaming with sweat , from a nightmare in which I relived that terrifying night in Valladolid . |
15 | There was a holiday feeling about every day : we would wake up in the morning and say , ‘ What shall we do today ? ’ |
16 | Three big movies ; drinking with Bogie ; flirting with Garbo ; taken up by Hedda Hopper , ‘ the most exciting success story since Gregory Peck 's contracts of ten years back ’ ; liked by directors ; known as his own man and a tough one ; married to a charmer and , now at peace with Olivia de Havilland , sitting on the floor at a last party telling her that he was ‘ terrified ’ of going back to play Hamlet , would wake up in the middle of the night sweating and shaking at the thought , unable to go back to sleep . |
17 | This morning the 780 employees of Digital in Galway will wake up with a hangover after a night 's mourning and stare into an uncertain future , wishing that some divine intervention could be called upon to extract them from their present straits . |
18 | The thing is that , in a day or two , the Tollemarche Advent will wake up to the fact that you wrote it . |
19 | Of course you will wake up in the morning with a nervous disorder and a slightly lower IQ , but at least you wo n't have any itchy red lumps . |
20 | What should be expected post-operatively , e.g. if the patient will wake up in the ward or a recovery room ; whether to expect an intravenous infusion. 5 . |
21 | Dawn choir : Twitchers can wake up with the birds and enjoy the dawn chorus at 6am on Saturday at the Martin Mere nature reserve , Ormskirk . |