Example sentences of "to go [prep] sleep " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You do n't come here to go to sleep . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't want anyone to go to sleep . |
| 3 | I try to go to sleep again , but I ai n't sleepy , and I get all fidgety . |
| 4 | I shut my eyes and try to go to sleep , but there 's too much going on to sleep . |
| 5 | Evenings are their weakest time since they soon begin to feel fatigued and want to go to sleep relatively early . |
| 6 | There are times when it is convenient for us to go to sleep ( the shops are not open , etc. ) and when it is expected that we will not be noisy . |
| 7 | The problem is this : why is the reflex increase in urine flow so much smaller at night when we lie down to go to sleep ? |
| 8 | Most people were kept awake by Jon Wensley telling them to go to sleep . |
| 9 | What a single mother represents may seem touchingly attractive : not having to cook another adult 's meals , or wash his clothes ; being able to go to bed when you want ; being able to go to sleep when you want . |
| 10 | He rolled over , thinking resentfully that it was impossible to go to sleep . |
| 11 | And when the tears come like that I think it is better to retreat , to go home , to go to sleep , to leave wherever you are and try to just sleep . |
| 12 | Firelight generally ate a bit of her haynet and by the time he settled down to go to sleep she lay down as well . |
| 13 | He fetched his sleeping bag from the cornbin , where he kept it so the mice would n't make a nest in it , and curled up to go to sleep . |
| 14 | There was no point in trying to go to sleep again . |
| 15 | During the assessment interview Margaret claimed she took the overdose intending to go to sleep and never wake up again . |
| 16 | The least productive thing to do is to keep trying to go to sleep . |
| 17 | Anyway , she was very tired and said that if I did n't tell her she was going to go to sleep . |
| 18 | ‘ Try not to go to sleep yet , love , ’ she whispered . |
| 19 | The Russians refer to ‘ buka ’ , the Welsh ‘ barog ’ means spiteful , while the Scots usher forward ‘ boggle-bos ’ , ‘ bucca-bos ’ , ‘ bodachs ’ and ‘ bugbears ’ as the solution for misbehaviour in very small children , especially if they refuse to go to sleep when they should . |
| 20 | Expansion and contraction of awareness may be interdependent , so that ‘ Be aware ’ would not , for example , pronounce waking good but sleeping bad ; when exhaustion is blurring awareness one can go so far as to say ‘ You ought to go to sleep ’ , although only for the sake of waking with refreshed awareness tomorrow . |
| 21 | She would like to go to sleep now and not wake up until they set foot in America . |
| 22 | ‘ He 's going to have to go to sleep soon , anyway , ’ said Masklin . |
| 23 | It then defecated delicately between the sugar bowl and a coffee cup , settled down with a yawn and appeared to go to sleep . |
| 24 | The man stepped back into the centre of the circle , and seemed almost to go to sleep . |
| 25 | The female , beating her wings as fast as 500 times a second creates the high-pitched hum that is so unsettling as you lie in camp trying to go to sleep without a mosquito net . |
| 26 | Similarly , one minute I 'm a busy wide-awake person , and the next , when the decision has been made to go to sleep , I 'm a wide-awake person lying down in bed . |
| 27 | Gradually the talkative groups settled into a contented silence , but no one seemed disposed to go to sleep . |
| 28 | She kept her eyes closed , trying to go to sleep . |
| 29 | ‘ If you promise to go to sleep , ’ said Flavia . |
| 30 | This is something to bear in mind when choosing your hotel room in a Basque village : it is picturesque assuredly to have a view of the frontón from your window , but it might not seem such a good idea if they start playing when you want to go to sleep . |