Example sentences of "early to bed " in BNC.
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| 1 | We retire early to bed , wishing there was a television set in the bedroom or , more particularly , a drawing-room specifically for the guests . |
| 2 | ‘ We can go early to bed , ’ he suggested . |
| 3 | I made and ate supper , washed up , then watched the changing view of evening from the haven of the cottage window , and went early to bed . |
| 4 | I finished the section I had been writing — an idea left in mid-paragraph tends to vanish very quickly — then took myself and my candle early to bed . |
| 5 | The common English proverb " Early to bed and early to rise , makes a man healthy , wealthy and wise " is less concerned with self-denial than with a prescription for regular habits . |
| 6 | They managed to part that night with no more than a friendly kiss , but the following evening when Mrs Wallington again went early to bed was more difficult . |
| 7 | As Miss Easterbrook has pointed out , no-one could rely on his going early to bed last night and not realising until after the Lab opened this morning that his son had n't come home . |
| 8 | Although Bernard again retired early to bed , this time his wife was not forced to sleep in a cupboard . |
| 9 | Early to bed . |
| 10 | Early to bed , mind ! ’ |
| 11 | Early to bed , early to rise , early to steal , that 's Jack . |
| 12 | Charles yawned exaggeratedly after the meal ‘ … early to bed , early to rise , and all that sort of thing ! ’ |
| 13 | Tonight she 's putting them early to bed , before tuning in to the American election . |