Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] sleep " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bejewelled , she sat through dinner-parties , often drowsy before the soup course was through , longing only to escape into sleep . |
| 2 | Psychological states such as boredom or depression can lead a person to escape into sleep . |
| 3 | Tired after two performances that day , she began to drift between sleep and wakefulness . |
| 4 | ‘ I lay down for a rest after lunch and was about to drift into sleep when there was a definite pop inside me , which made me think my waters had broken . |
| 5 | How many more nights were we to do without sleep ? |
| 6 | In the earlier years of living with her he had sometimes left her a note speared on the kitchen tap before he went out for his walk — stirred and perhaps even drawn by the sight of her plain , flushed face in bed , which had begun to acquire in sleep a look of distress and disappointment . |
| 7 | ‘ You do n't come here to go to sleep . |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't want anyone to go to sleep . |
| 9 | I try to go to sleep again , but I ai n't sleepy , and I get all fidgety . |
| 10 | I shut my eyes and try to go to sleep , but there 's too much going on to sleep . |
| 11 | Evenings are their weakest time since they soon begin to feel fatigued and want to go to sleep relatively early . |
| 12 | There are times when it is convenient for us to go to sleep ( the shops are not open , etc. ) and when it is expected that we will not be noisy . |
| 13 | The problem is this : why is the reflex increase in urine flow so much smaller at night when we lie down to go to sleep ? |
| 14 | Most people were kept awake by Jon Wensley telling them to go to sleep . |
| 15 | What a single mother represents may seem touchingly attractive : not having to cook another adult 's meals , or wash his clothes ; being able to go to bed when you want ; being able to go to sleep when you want . |
| 16 | He rolled over , thinking resentfully that it was impossible to go to sleep . |
| 17 | And when the tears come like that I think it is better to retreat , to go home , to go to sleep , to leave wherever you are and try to just sleep . |
| 18 | Firelight generally ate a bit of her haynet and by the time he settled down to go to sleep she lay down as well . |
| 19 | He fetched his sleeping bag from the cornbin , where he kept it so the mice would n't make a nest in it , and curled up to go to sleep . |
| 20 | There was no point in trying to go to sleep again . |
| 21 | During the assessment interview Margaret claimed she took the overdose intending to go to sleep and never wake up again . |
| 22 | The least productive thing to do is to keep trying to go to sleep . |
| 23 | Anyway , she was very tired and said that if I did n't tell her she was going to go to sleep . |
| 24 | ‘ Try not to go to sleep yet , love , ’ she whispered . |
| 25 | The Russians refer to ‘ buka ’ , the Welsh ‘ barog ’ means spiteful , while the Scots usher forward ‘ boggle-bos ’ , ‘ bucca-bos ’ , ‘ bodachs ’ and ‘ bugbears ’ as the solution for misbehaviour in very small children , especially if they refuse to go to sleep when they should . |
| 26 | Expansion and contraction of awareness may be interdependent , so that ‘ Be aware ’ would not , for example , pronounce waking good but sleeping bad ; when exhaustion is blurring awareness one can go so far as to say ‘ You ought to go to sleep ’ , although only for the sake of waking with refreshed awareness tomorrow . |
| 27 | She would like to go to sleep now and not wake up until they set foot in America . |
| 28 | ‘ He 's going to have to go to sleep soon , anyway , ’ said Masklin . |
| 29 | It then defecated delicately between the sugar bowl and a coffee cup , settled down with a yawn and appeared to go to sleep . |
| 30 | The man stepped back into the centre of the circle , and seemed almost to go to sleep . |