Example sentences of "of bed and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cameron got out of bed and dressed , feeling unreal . |
| 2 | When Mrs Lennox had gone Maggie got out of bed and dressed in the clothes Susan had left out for her . |
| 3 | I made sure I looked as if I 'd just got out of bed and dressed in a hurry — hence no socks and the sweatshirt — and went down to front garden to wave them in . |
| 4 | I dragged myself out of bed and set the machine up on the kitchen table . |
| 5 | He staggered out of bed and cleaned his teeth , but the taste was still there . |
| 6 | One night I got out of bed and drove — very badly — to an office . |
| 7 | She got out of bed and thought everything over very carefully , and although it was difficult to keep emotion out of it , she still came back to the self-same answer . |
| 8 | He got out of bed and drank two glasses of water from the tap then he put his head out of the window and sampled the morning air , tangy with the smell of salt water and seaweed . |
| 9 | Next day , Sunday — All Saints ' Day — Wycliffe woke at seven , but it was after eight before he dared get out of bed and peer through the curtains , for Helen was still asleep . |
| 10 | Get your lazy body out of bed and get dressed . |
| 11 | She was then helped out of bed and assisted to walk around . |
| 12 | Jessamy eventually hauled herself out of bed and padded over to the window . |
| 13 | So I had to get out of bed and turn over . |
| 14 | She felt so sick that it was lunchtime before she could drag herself out of bed and come downstairs . |
| 15 | Oh he probably , I mean , he could get ou er , he might just get out of bed and come back in . |
| 16 | but she 'd do anything for you , if you say like midnight one night you got her out of bed and come down . |
| 17 | He leapt out of bed and began to search for his clothes . |
| 18 | ‘ Then , before I could stop her she got my father out of bed and told him the whole thing . |
| 19 | Christina heard Stephen get out of bed and creep into the bathroom , trying not to make a sound . |
| 20 | Yesterday morning Harriet had got out of bed and made herself ready to go hunting behind those upstairs windows . |
| 21 | There 's only one area of your life you want to share with me , ’ she recalled caustically , getting out of bed and reaching for her robe . |
| 22 | She did not , thought Henry bitterly , as he dragged himself out of bed and weaved his way to the bathroom over Elinor 's discarded knickers , go to classes in being thin , or classes designed to allow the participants to hold one idea in their heads for more than five minutes . |
| 23 | When a sender judges her receiver 's schema to correspond to a significant degree with her own , she need only mention features which are not contained in it ( the time of getting up and what she had for breakfast , for example ) ; other features ( like getting out of bed and getting dressed ) will be assumed to be present by default , unless we are told otherwise . |
| 24 | Switching on the bedside light , I got out of bed and fumbled into my bathrobe . |
| 25 | DARLINGTON is to spearhead a new scheme designed to keep homeless families out of bed and breakfast temporary accommodation . |
| 26 | The late arrival had necessitated her getting out of bed and throwing on a voluminous dressing-robe in order to prepare suitable accommodation — on a night such as this , moreover , when all a body wanted was to curl up under the quilt and hide from the horrors outside . |
| 27 | She swung her legs out of bed and reached for her dressing gown . |
| 28 | The thought of the husband had Maggie getting out of bed and locking her door securely . |
| 29 | She was too frightened to get out of bed and go to find Victorine . |
| 30 | Mrs Frizzell drank her coffee quickly , then scrambled out of bed and proceeded a little unsteadily to the kitchen , her cotton nightgown drooping despondent–y round her . |