Example sentences of "[verb] to bed " in BNC.
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| 31 | I think a structured note take a few notes , will that 'll be okay , done , put to bed . |
| 32 | On the other hand , Matthew always knew what time J. came to bed at nights . |
| 33 | But just as she was burying her head beneath the blanket in utter dejection Ella came to bed , and she passed on the most extraordinary piece of news . |
| 34 | She only awoke when George came to bed , bringing the baby for his last feed of the day . |
| 35 | That had been an awful tea they 'd had at five o'clock ; two slices of bread and fat , a slab of hard cake and a bowl of milk ; then nothing else , only a drink of water , if they wanted one , before they came to bed , and it only half-past seven . |
| 36 | When he came to bed , they clung to each other , cold and clean and silent , feeling that even these small movements were overheard . |
| 37 | When he came to bed , hours later it seemed , she was wide awake . |
| 38 | I was a bit drunk when I came to bed . ’ |
| 39 | You do not even disapprove , very much , of the way I came to bed with you . |
| 40 | The orphans say they were beaten with straps , paddles and fists , sexually and psychologically abused , restrained in strait-jackets weeks at a time , plunged into ice water , lashed to beds . |
| 41 | That is a nightshirt he wears to bed . |
| 42 | Patrick is still having difficulties with girls : the married man keeps going to bed with them , not liking it very much and not liking the distress it brings to a wife whom he does like and who is carefully crafted to be likeable . |
| 43 | I 'm going to bed . ’ |
| 44 | Introducing Wired , his biography of John Belushi , Bob Woodward recalls how the rigours of research involved going to bed early so as to rise at 4am to visit one of the comedian 's favourite watering holes . |
| 45 | For a period , he worked in the Manchester factory from 3am until 5pm , going to bed at 7pm so he could get up in time for the next day 's duty . |
| 46 | We are just under one inch taller on getting up in the morning than we are on going to bed at night . |
| 47 | • Advance your meal times by the same amount as you change your times of getting up and going to bed . |
| 48 | • Change your meal times to fit in with your delayed times of getting up and going to bed . |
| 49 | In practice this means a regularity in mealtimes , times of physical and social activity , and times of going to bed and rising . |
| 50 | Therefore make sure that you are not going to bed too early , particularly if you have taken a nap after lunch . |
| 51 | • After several days on this schedule they will be going to bed and getting up at their chosen time , one that gives them enough sleep during the weekdays . |
| 52 | Social activities Provided that they do not stop you going to bed at the proper time , social activities are a very good way of adjusting to the new time zone , particularly if they enable you to spend time out-of-doors in natural daylight at the times recommended in Table 11.2 . |
| 53 | If possible , try to adjust at least partially to the local time of your destination by going to bed one or two hours earlier each night and getting up one or two hours earlier each day . |
| 54 | Again this might not always be possible , but going to bed and getting up earlier are not likely to intrude too much upon your normal working life . |
| 55 | You will also tend not to feel tired by the time the local inhabitants are going to bed . |
| 56 | She dreaded going to bed , because then several swords of Damocles quivered above her . |
| 57 | He even put the woman 's view to a certain extent : ‘ Miriam knew that their marriage was dead , but took comfort in the old rituals of going to bed together and getting up in the morning . ’ |
| 58 | I learned afterwards that Mrs McLaren was in the habit of getting up and going to bed so early that night was confused with day ; and having an idea that she must get a message to the man who did her garden , she had gone out before it was light , lost her way , and fallen into the brook , where she was found by a man walking to work . |
| 59 | PS I do n't think you should marry that young man in the back row of the chorus , it 's too soon after going to bed with your horse dressed up as a Praetorian Guard . |
| 60 | Furious , he got up to complain to his neighbour , only to discover that it was his own dog which he had accidently shut outside before going to bed . |