Example sentences of "[prep] my bed " in BNC.

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1 Quick as lightning , someone outside makes a quip about my bed and Jancey , and she grins and tells them to be serious and asks , do n't they think of anything but sex ?
2 She looks a bit cold , so I go and fetch the blanket off my bed and wrap it round her shoulders .
3 And I used to wake up like two feet off my bed , like I du n no my , my body
4 In hospital I never got off my bed for six weeks .
5 I nearly fell off my bed .
6 And what 's that sitting on my give me a hand for my bed you know .
7 My second thought , which did not occur to me until I was crawling back along the floor towards my bed , was that today was the day when I was due to Testify .
8 He tosses up the Clothes with a barbarous swing over his Shoulders , disorders the whole Economy of my Bed , leaves me half naked , and my whole Night 's Comfort is the tuneable Serenade of that wakeful Nightingale , his Nose .
9 Dear partner of my bed . ’
10 But I thought , sitting there on the side of my bed looking out over the trash-filled street with the sound of the trucks grinding and roaring down the thoroughfare , that He must be something like the sun rising out of the ocean on a cloudless day .
11 I was dragged out of my bed one morning when I was in A Division , and at that time unless you passed your life-saving exams in the water , you could n't be considered for promotion .
12 At any rate , when I saw her approaching late at night from the last bus , I would feign sleep and lie rigid in bed , willing my eyes to stay shut , but the sagging weight of Val sitting on the edge of my bed and her heart-rending sighs usually wore me down in the end , and I had to open my eyes and listen .
13 The nosecone of one of our own anti-aircraft shells — still smoking — was reposing on the pillow of my bed , burning a neat hole in the pillow case and scorching the feathers .
14 Stretching my feet to the end of my bed I felt the tightening of the sheets .
15 I have really bad nightmares of someone pursuing me , or a really big landslide coming down on me , and I race out of my bed and run , run far away and find something to defend myself with , like a candelabra or a bottle .
16 I 've got a pad at the side of my bed !
17 That night , as I sat on the edge of my bed , contemplating the tatter of pop posters sellotaped to the flower-patterned wallpaper of my bedroom , I found myself shaking .
18 They dumped some bread and jam on the end of my bed and unchained me as usual .
19 trying to think only of the shore of my bed
20 ‘ I used to hide under the covers of my bed at night , imagining there were dragons out there ; in the room when the light was out , when there was nobody else there .
21 Oh no I keep it at the side of my bed with the , the strip telling me
22 Sent up early to the dormitory , I had to kneel naked by the side of my bed .
23 A woman spends years saying no , not this one , stay out of my bed : I 'll wait , a better man will come along : and with the better man a better baby .
24 ‘ In the past , ’ he said as he returned to Robbie 's side , ‘ she 's been accustomed to sleeping at the foot of my bed .
25 Signe brought me coffee in a pot with a felt cover that had eyes and a nose , then she sat on the edge of my bed holding a silly conversation with the felt cover while I drank my coffee .
26 I found Springsteen lying in the middle of my bed .
27 So up until then , being very cautious and a canny Scot , I hung the instrument wrapped in a piece of rag outside the window of my bed space on a nail , just in case somebody came round whilst we were either at school or the workshops .
28 Could you get out of my bed now ?
29 He goes he goes you ca n't go to sleep , and he sat on the edge of my bed for about quarter of an hour .
30 Oh ! jumps on , jumped all over the end of my bed last night , got the bed covers
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