Example sentences of "she [verb] [adv] in bed " in BNC.

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1 She sits up in bed for a moment , doing some complicated breathing and flexing of the abdominal muscles , learned in yoga classes , to calm herself .
2 The full impact of it seemed to come from the roof , and was so strong that she jerked up in bed .
3 She woke up in bed with a man with a red beard , but from the snide remarks and sideways looks of those fellow guests who were still there in the morning gathered that he had not been her only partner of the night .
4 As she curled up in bed once more she reflected that it would be very nice to have a third person in the house , quite apart from the fact that Gay was her best friend .
5 As she lay down in bed and put out her light , she forced herself to recall the latest chapter , completed a few days before , and fell asleep mulling over the next .
6 He could n't take his eyes off Zambia 's stomach which was revealed quite plainly as SHe sat up in bed .
7 Now , however , she sat up in bed and wondered , as she had been wondering for the last few days , what had happened to the spider .
8 When the maid woke her she sat up in bed and said , ‘ Ask Sir Stephen if he can spare me a few minutes . ’
9 Angry with herself , she sat up in bed , turned on the light ( wonderful electric light ) , and reaching for one of the three modern novels laid out for her , forced herself to read .
10 She sat up in bed , rubbed the sleep from her eyes and blew irritably at a hanging strand of her hair .
11 But the light that filtered through the curtains as she sat up in bed soon convinced her that , unlikely though it seemed , she really had left the discomforts of her hotel behind her for good .
12 She sat up in bed .
13 But he was wrong , as Laura pointed out nine months later when she sat up in bed , proudly holding three-day-old David and James in her arms .
14 Confused , she sat up in bed raking her hair from her face .
15 She sat up in bed , freeing herself from Lowell 's arms .
16 Suddenly she sat upright in bed as though pulled by strings , her brain clearing as if her head had been pushed into a bucket of water .
17 HE insisted that the Church has never ruled that a priest should not have sex , only that he should not marry , ’ says Monika ( sic ) Kocanek by way of explaining how she ended up in bed with Fr Christopher O'Neill and then found herself pregnant .
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