Example sentences of "could not sleep [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could not sleep but lay on my back staring at the blackness , listening to the wind and one of the lads snoring . |
| 2 | I became very weak , I could not sleep or feel any hunger or desire to speak to anyone . |
| 3 | I could not sleep or eat . |
| 4 | I could n't sleep or eat for thinking about it but I decided I was not going to be beaten by AIDS . ’ |
| 5 | He went quickly downstairs and left a note for his mother saying that he could n't sleep and had gone out for an early morning bike ride . |
| 6 | ‘ I could n't sleep and drink was a way of winding down . |
| 7 | Sometimes she sat on the end of his divan if she could n't sleep and tried to wake him up to talk , but he slept with the heaviness of the very thin , and her weight on the divan made it sag and creak in a way that embarrassed her . |