Example sentences of "i woke [adv prt] " 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 | I woke up late afternoon sometime with a funny taste in my mouth . |
| 3 | When I woke up Elizabeth was crying , a huge pale donkey was breathing down my neck , and Mother Ignatius was smiling . |
| 4 | I was OK when I woke up , but when I remember Marie 's gone I start feeling sad . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 ’ . |
| 6 | I dreamed last night that I sat by a fire with Grandmother & my brother & when I woke up I still felt my brother 's hand . |
| 7 | ‘ I woke up , ’ he said weakly . |
| 8 | ‘ I woke up . |
| 9 | After my first sight of him that sunny autumn morning in the gallery of the courtyard in the Palacio de Anaya , his face haunted me all day , and I dreamt of him during the night — a long , ecstatic dream of such acute sensual pleasure I woke up aching and exhausted by too much bliss . |
| 10 | It was n't until I woke up at three o'clock that I remembered my husband . |
| 11 | Doone , with his promise of instant detection once I woke up , must have been the end of hope . |
| 12 | I felt so joyful it took my breath away , and I woke up . |
| 13 | I woke up having 5 minute contractions and thought I 'd lost ‘ my water ’ on the loo , without really being sure ( if only you could have a trial run — but then you might not go through with it if you did ! ) |
| 14 | The morning I was due to leave — the day Chernenko died — I woke up to the sound of Russian troops singing marching songs from the nearby barracks . |
| 15 | At leat that 's as much as I can remember until the next morning when I woke up with my head in an invisible , sealed gold-fish bowl of pain . |
| 16 | It was nearly eight when I woke up . |
| 17 | I woke up when someone shook me by the shoulder . |
| 18 | I woke up frightened at having my knife and pill-bottles in the tent in case I should end my life during my night 's sleep . |
| 19 | I woke up in hospital here . ’ |
| 20 | ( I woke up chilly in the morning . ) |
| 21 | I woke up early , woke naturally during that exam time . |
| 22 | I woke up like someone had kicked me . |
| 23 | I woke up a few times and got Mum out of bed all bleary-eyed and irritable in her nightie telling her a bogey-man was after me . |
| 24 | I woke up . |
| 25 | Last Wednesday , before I woke up on Thursday . |
| 26 | I used to sleep in the same bed as my mother and father because of the shortage of space , but one morning I woke up in another room and I looked out and saw the undertaker standing at the top of the stairs . |
| 27 | We made love again , and we must have been tired , because it ca n't have been less than two hours later that I woke up . |
| 28 | I was dismayed when I woke up to the fact that the plan was not to wait or extend the building but to send twenty people and their children away to start another church . |
| 29 | At the beginning of our second week in Corfu , I woke up to find a lump beneath my left arm the size of a pigeon 's egg and two smaller ones running into my breast . |
| 30 | Recently , just before I woke up , I had an insight that I perceived as being connected with the Celtic tradition ; I ‘ saw ’ that animal sacrifice in Celtic mythology was a way of buying interaction with the world of spirits , the souls of the animals being the currency used . |