Example sentences of "they [vb past] to bed " in BNC.
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| 1 | They got to bed at ten to seven , they were shattered . |
| 2 | That had been an awful tea they 'd had at five o'clock ; two slices of bread and fat , a slab of hard cake and a bowl of milk ; then nothing else , only a drink of water , if they wanted one , before they came to bed , and it only half-past seven . |
| 3 | I do not know if they talked or if they went to bed together on that first night . |
| 4 | Then they went to bed again and drank and loved two nights away and then they had a party and then they made a giant salad of mushrooms and tomatoes and sweetcorn and ham and avocado and lettuce and hibernated for a week . |
| 5 | When they went to bed that night Ellen , as usual , was asleep within minutes but Ruth , though deadly tired , was curiously wakeful ; not quite feeling herself but not able to put a finger on what was wrong . |
| 6 | After that there was a good meal of mutton stew and Aunt Sarah 's feather-light dumplings ( none of which anyone could eat ) and they went to bed early . |
| 7 | What they had eventually decided to sell before they went to bed that night ( or the following morning really ) were Great-Uncle Hilbert 's do–en Waterford sherry glasses . |
| 8 | Dad tucked a twin under each arm and took them home , where we helped to wash and clean them before they went to bed . |
| 9 | He recovered sufficiently to make love once more before they went to bed , but it was n't as frantic or as demanding and he fell asleep afterwards on the sofa . |
| 10 | Before they went to bed they had filled buckets with what was left of the pool to use in the lavatories . |
| 11 | It might have been a cat knocking an empty tumbler off the bar — except that they did n't keep a cat , and all the glasses had been washed up and put away before they went to bed . |
| 12 | In the evenings they read together , keeping silent because he believed that silence was more real than chatter , and at half past nine they went to bed . |
| 13 | No one called that evening , and they went to bed early . |
| 14 | Very probably they went to bed and woke with the sun . |
| 15 | The rest of the day followed predictably — Len 's breakfast , seeing him off to work , cleaning the small , semi-detached house they were steadily paying for , looking after the baby , making Len 's evening meal , sitting by the fire in the evening watching the telly , before they went to bed … |
| 16 | They went to bed and when Lavinia woke in the night it was Timothy Gedge she thought of , not her lost child . |
| 17 | And for some time after that they went to bed at the same time and Ellen gave up both Jed and the Director of Social Services ; and when both threatened , in grief , spite and unreason , to report her infidelity to Bernard , said , ‘ Tell away ! ’ and neither of them did , which rather disappointed her . |
| 18 | I I the way I s I think I think was it Josephine he was married to , then then she would er she would object very strongly if he had a bath before they went to bed together . |
| 19 | Tim Roberts , prosecuting , said the couple , who lived at the house in Brankin Road , Darlington , had forgotten to shut the front door when they went to bed that night . |
| 20 | their high tea , were n't bothered about high tea , but still , er then , they 'd have , they might have a supper because she ai n't been a work , their elderly , they perhaps have a good tea , the they , they went to bed at nine and they said if I was reading something , they said , you know turn the gas out when you come up and , there you are well you can see , if one landlady gave me egg for me lunch that I had n't had , they not , they were n't gon na feed you up at supper time were they ? |
| 21 | Saturday night I put them to bed erm they went to bed at half seven Saturday night . |
| 22 | However , those who came to Remaisnil for meetings could not but be struck by a paradox ; they were expected to remain in the château for meals and afterwards , until they retired to bed . |