Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] bed " in BNC.
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| 1 | They returned to the front room and , after a light tea of eggs and toast , Willie changed for bed and positioned himself by the armchair , next to Tom . |
| 2 | His body was hairy , muscled , well-shaped , and when I saw him strip for bed he reminded me of a gorilla about to pounce upon its prey . |
| 3 | On a bubble of elation , full of dreams for the future , Lisa switched off the gas fire and headed for bed . |
| 4 | She did n't go as far as to say a nice warm man to slip into bed with , but that was not far from her mind . |
| 5 | I was n't too shy to leap into bed with them , but I was too shy to tell them what I needed . ’ |
| 6 | Which does n't mean I intend to leap into bed with you just because fate washed you up on my beach . |
| 7 | ( Even her leaping into bed with him again . |
| 8 | And does he still jump into bed with Big Ears ? |
| 9 | We always had to be properly dressed even in the wee small hours when we were only looking forward to being relieved so we could fall into bed . |
| 10 | At dawn , he would finally fall into bed and stay there the whole of the next day . |
| 11 | I remember once when she was climbing into bed in her Waaf-issue blue striped pyjamas , a cheeky little field mouse popped up from between her sheets where it had evidently been nesting , and streaked across the hut to disappear down a convenient crack in the wooden wall . |
| 12 | I can think of nothing less appealing than climbing into bed with you — which is why I intend to sleep in the ante-room . |
| 13 | Climbing into bed , she switched out the light and turned on to her side . |
| 14 | ‘ You mean the summer of your dreams for me , ’ Charity said , climbing into bed . |
| 15 | Leaping from bed to be done learns nothing of any depth . ’ |
| 16 | Aye , you 'd better jump in bed with him , |
| 17 | In 8 , Abercorn Avenue , Rita Ablewhite lies in bed in the dark . |
| 18 | Two in the morning , and John lies in bed in the dark . |
| 19 | We called at the cottage at night , and found he was very ill , and it was not till the factor assured him he was joking , and that he had swallowed none other than the best of whiskey , that he rose from bed , and Donald was himself again . |
| 20 | Back at the academy , Ethel sat fuming in bed and watched from her window as the pupils rose like a flock of bats into the twilight and sailed away without her . |
| 21 | Sarella lay fuming in bed for a few minutes before flinging back the duvet and running to the window . |
| 22 | I was nourished on stories like these ; William Wallace , slaying half a dozen English soldiers with his fishing rod ; Bruce , before Bannockburn , felling an English knight with one stroke from his slender battle-axe ; and when I was a boy I contracted a mortal dread of dying in bed . |
| 23 | So I stopped in bed now I , I 'm better , well |
| 24 | cos I dare say we 'll latish in bed , cos you wo n't be that late with Marge in bed , will you , tomorrow night ? |
| 25 | He had always dominated in bed , as he intended to dominate her . |
| 26 | Limping awkwardly to the window , he watched Tom fight his way through the snow in the farmyard , and he thought of how close he and Carrie had come to being caught in bed together . |
| 27 | Suddenly he said , Would you like to come to bed ? |
| 28 | ‘ You think I ca n't get a woman to come to bed with me without offering her bribes ? |
| 29 | Ought to come to bed and turn it off . |
| 30 | He successfully accomplished his design by the simple expedient of walking out of the gaol disguised as a workman while his doctor pretended that he was ill and confined to bed . |