Example sentences of "to sleep " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I got down to the park , the combination of the cold and my long sleep that afternoon made me feel too restless to contemplate actually going to sleep again , so I just sat there on one of the benches , thinking . |
| 2 | No , you say , all in control , we are not going to sleep together . |
| 3 | ‘ You do n't come here to go to sleep . |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't want anyone to go to sleep . |
| 5 | Go to sleep now , darling . ’ |
| 6 | When I saw no one in the middle of the room , which had been full of music and smoke and pungent with the smell of hashish , I thought he might have forgotten to turn off the music before he went to sleep . |
| 7 | She must go to sleep next to her murdered lover , talking of breakfast , and she must then persuade the Cook to prepare the body for eating . |
| 8 | I took a taxi home and went to sleep . |
| 9 | I found myself talking to someone and watching him go to sleep on his feet . |
| 10 | Are you going to sleep in that pit all fucking day ? ’ |
| 11 | But my mother 's leg had gone to sleep . |
| 12 | She needs plenty of shouting at or she 'd go to sleep on her feet . ’ |
| 13 | Later we go to sleep with the noise of rain on the flysheet , that noise that is at one time both infuriating because it means that tomorrow 's enjoyment may be curtailed , and soothing in a strange way . |
| 14 | I try to go to sleep again , but I ai n't sleepy , and I get all fidgety . |
| 15 | I shut my eyes and try to go to sleep , but there 's too much going on to sleep . |
| 16 | Evenings are their weakest time since they soon begin to feel fatigued and want to go to sleep relatively early . |
| 17 | There are times when it is convenient for us to go to sleep ( the shops are not open , etc. ) and when it is expected that we will not be noisy . |
| 18 | Some of these points are illustrated in Table 3.1 which compares the effects of sleep at night and during the day upon growth hormone release and deep sleep ( dominated by an external cause , the act of going to sleep ) and cortisol release and REM sleep ( dominated by the body clock ) . |
| 19 | The obvious fact that stressful circumstances , such as anger or danger , are not conducive to going to sleep is due to adrenalin to a large extent . |
| 20 | The problem is this : why is the reflex increase in urine flow so much smaller at night when we lie down to go to sleep ? |
| 21 | When one considers the symptoms ( going to sleep and waking up very early ) , the treatment ( advancing the patient 's life-style by 3 hour per ‘ day ’ until it is correctly timed ) , or the possible causes ( a clock that runs faster than average ) , it is seen as the opposite of Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome . |
| 22 | In many cases , following the advice , particularly with regard to sleep , will initially be against the ‘ natural ’ dictates of the body clock , but , as we have explained , obeying the body clock in this case will only prolong the difficulties in living with the new time zone . |
| 23 | ‘ Go to sleep . ’ |
| 24 | Now go to sleep . |
| 25 | ‘ You wo n't do it drinking with Bodo till all hours , ’ Frau Nordern said , but it was a Parthian shot as she did , then , go to sleep . |
| 26 | Go to sleep . |
| 27 | Most people were kept awake by Jon Wensley telling them to go to sleep . |
| 28 | ( ‘ Bet your gums are relieved when the rest of you goes to sleep . ’ ) |
| 29 | She gave me an extra pillow , kept me supplied with boiling bottles , brought me Vichy , and my meals on a little round table , actually produced a bottle of alcool camphre & frictioned me & gave me some lime flower tea before I went to sleep . |
| 30 | What a single mother represents may seem touchingly attractive : not having to cook another adult 's meals , or wash his clothes ; being able to go to bed when you want ; being able to go to sleep when you want . |