Example sentences of "been [verb] to bed " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 18 February 1791 Granville Penn ( chairman ) supported by Rev Mr Cook , John Gretton , William Stone , Edward Topham and Huntingford , received information from Vial ( who had been confined to bed with a cold and fever , and had been unable to meet the committee 's delegation ) that he supported the amalgamation of the two plans , and that he would consult his patrons and subscribers accordingly . |
| 2 | Perhaps Mrs Longhill had already written during the days Ruth had been confined to bed . |
| 3 | Player-manager Roy McDonough , who has been confined to bed with flu for the past couple of days , is happy with the likes of Robert Hopkins , Steve McGavin , Gary Bennett , Paul Abrahams and himself from which to choose as the U's bid to launch a late bid for the end of season play-off phase . |
| 4 | I 've been going to bed at half past one and I was doing the T M A for two nights , then I 've been doing his V A T for two nights so I 've got to bed really really late and I just and , the thing is , the T M A were all on about my then I just start to relax I had to resort to herbal knockout drops . |
| 5 | he 's been going to bed too late ! |
| 6 | night he 's been going to bed at ten , eleven o see that was quarter past ten last night before you went |
| 7 | You 've been going to bed nice and early have n't you ? |
| 8 | I listened all day , from the bright , undemanding getting-up-time music to the midnight news , at that terrible hour , owl-season , when newspapers have been put to bed and cold skin grows over the country 's cocoa . |
| 9 | He 'd been put to bed early , exhausted after a visit from Konstantin and his girlfriend . |
| 10 | In Virginia Woolf 's To the Lighthouse there is a long passage in which Mrs Ramsay meditates after her child has been put to bed and she is on her own : |
| 11 | ‘ There is a bedding ceremony and once the bride and bridegroom have been put to bed and everything — but everything — sprinkled with holy water , then the marriage is completed . ’ |
| 12 | Either I had been put to bed , I thought , as I woke up next morning , in the wee cold room at the top of the house , or my standard drunk-person 's on-board auto-pilot facility was improving with experience . |
| 13 | He had expected to have a little chat with his boy , but the headmaster had explained that he had been put to bed early because he had an important French test the next day . |
| 14 | The tiles would be located after dinner when Thomas , who was heavy-lidded and more than a little cranky , had been put to bed . |
| 15 | Well of course there 's been the erm joining of the two Leagues back to where they should have been , you know this silly split that was erm arose over the last couple of years has been put to bed now and sorted out . |
| 16 | From the beginning he had been determined to bed her . |
| 17 | And he 'd known it , all the time he 'd been trying to bed her . |
| 18 | ‘ I imagined you had been ordered to bed for three full days . ’ |