Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] sleep " in BNC.
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| 1 | The findings indicate that , as might be suspected from common experience , impressions formed during sleep are not retained . |
| 2 | This was not calculated for sleep position and breast feeding because of the similar exposure distribution of these two variables among Maori children and their controls ( table IV ) . |
| 3 | Pavel levers himself into his car , forcing movement out of a body that longs for sleep more than anything else . |
| 4 | For a long time she listened to his breathing , praying for sleep . |
| 5 | This stands for sleep — and get as much of it as you can , while you can ! |
| 6 | Paige looked up , seeing how the lines of his face were softening as sleep overcame him . |
| 7 | He 'd be half blind by the time he stopped for sleep , his vision clunking with green and purple balls . |
| 8 | Then we all have a family dinner in the evening , and by around 9.30pm I 'm aching for sleep . |
| 9 | I closed my eyes to shut out the glow from the cloverleaf window and tried for sleep . |
| 10 | ‘ The highlanders , ’ testified one Jacobite present , ‘ though faint with hunger and ready to drop down with fatigue and want of sleep , seemed to forget all their hardships at the approach of the enemy . |
| 11 | Every word stops me turning away and closing my eyes , to block it out , to let me retreat into sleep . |
| 12 | As for Wordsworth , she thought as she sank into sleep , as for Wordsworth … |
| 13 | If you are to prosper , as you should — ’ and she waited , but he had dropped into sleep like a stone . |
| 14 | ‘ Thanks , ’ she mumbled , still drugged with sleep . |
| 15 | Still drugged with sleep , struggling to free herself from her half-dreaming state , Isabel 's eyes snapped open just as Guy released her mouth . |
| 16 | This triumph is not to be won in sleep , in trance , in submission , in paralysis , or in anaesthesia , but in a clear , open-eyed , reasoning , deliberate consciousness by mankind . |
| 17 | Sometimes he winced in sleep . |
| 18 | They took no care to work quietly , hoping that someone they disturbed from sleep would fetch them out a hot drink or a bite of freshly-baked bread . |
| 19 | For a long time she stayed outside keeping from sleep to hold that moment , hold it as being now , not letting it go to be yesterday , go into the past . |
| 20 | On the grey stairwell winding toward sleep |
| 21 | He slept little — two , three hours at most a night — but just now there was too much to do to even think of sleep . |
| 22 | Ven was once more in her head , though , when she climbed into bed and yearned for sleep . |
| 23 | Cough during sleep ; cough from the least uncovering . |
| 24 | I turn on my side , make a parallel zigzag , and wait for sleep . |
| 25 | She thought again of the clever pastry-cook who baked her man to her liking , and of La Carmellina , who lost her true love when he climbed a cherry tree into the clouds and found himself in the lair of the sorceress Zenaida — Zenaida , who had been robbed of sleep by the curse of another fairy , and had stolen Carmellina 's love away and changed him into a songbird . |
| 26 | He lay back , resting his head on his hands that were clasped behind him , closing his eyes even though he did not feel like sleep . |
| 27 | It can be recognized even in such an extreme case as enjoyment of sinking into sleep . |
| 28 | She had gone to bed early thinking of the luxury of a long night 's rest but woke from sleep unwell . |
| 29 | There was no bell to sound my coming or going , no wearing out of someone else 's carpet and electricity ; no animal to be disturbed from sleep . |
| 30 | omniscience occurs in sleep |