Example sentences of "of bed [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.

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1 It was the kind of bed that made into a table and bench-seats during the day and you just took the table off its legs and fitted it into some slots for night-time .
2 He staggered out of bed and cleaned his teeth , but the taste was still there .
3 One night I got out of bed and drove — very badly — to an office .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 She was then helped out of bed and assisted to walk around .
7 He leapt out of bed and began to search for his clothes .
8 ‘ Then , before I could stop her she got my father out of bed and told him the whole thing .
9 Yesterday morning Harriet had got out of bed and made herself ready to go hunting behind those upstairs windows .
10 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 .
11 She swung her legs out of bed and reached for her dressing gown .
12 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 .
13 When she pulled herself out of bed and went to the bathroom , instructing me not to look at the sketch , I got the chance to examine it .
14 Last night it cried like a little child , and I got out of bed and went to the window to listen .
15 And then I leapt out of bed and went to the window .
16 Impatiently she jumped out of bed and went to run herself a bath perfumed with her favourite bath-foam .
17 She got out of bed and went to make tea .
18 At a quarter to four by the little travelling clock at his bedside he got out of bed and went to the window .
19 Killion got out of bed and went over and rested his brow on the cold glass .
20 Thursday dawned as dully as the day before and Fabia got out of bed and went through the routine of getting showered and dressed and going down to breakfast with a total lack of enthusiasm or appetite .
21 She got out of bed and went out and went through the churchyard and went into the church and started feeling in the dark with her hand
22 He got out of bed and came behind me .
23 Patrick hopped out of bed and came up behind her , wrapping his arms around her waist , resting his chin on her shoulder .
24 He got out of bed and walked across to Jackie as if he were about to say something .
25 Mysteriously , a nurse later said that one night I got out of bed and walked to the toilet , and yet the next day I could n't move .
26 She then jumped out of bed and walked out of the room , he said .
27 He got out of bed and looked in his cabinet for his clothes : it was empty .
28 Mandy got out of bed and touched her shoulder .
29 Folly slipped out of bed and wriggled her toes in the thick , silky pile of the carpet .
30 She jumped out of bed and ran to the window .
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