Example sentences of "up to bed " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think I 'll just give the hospital a ring and then I 'll go up to bed . ’ |
| 2 | My father had gone off up to bed and she suddenly began to tell me what her life with him had been , the bribery and the humiliation and so on . |
| 3 | ‘ Would you like to — um — go up to bed now , or shall we descend to the ground floor ? ’ |
| 4 | Their house was lit by oil lamps downstairs , and we carried candles up to bed . |
| 5 | Every year on the Wednesday evening , after going up to bed , I used to stand at my window and gaze towards the fair some five hundred yards away , watching the flickering lights and hearing the screams and music , feeling quite sad that the show was over for another year . |
| 6 | ‘ Go on up to bed ’ , his words being punctuated by hard slaps to my rump . |
| 7 | At last , worn out , she tiptoed up to bed , but she was too tired to sleep . |
| 8 | Then she turned , was shrouded in darkness , and went up to bed . |
| 9 | Having reached this rather unsatisfactory conclusion , they went up to bed . |
| 10 | ‘ When we get home , go up to bed , and later I will have them send up gruel , ’ said Dinah . |
| 11 | ‘ Would it help , do you think , ’ he said , just before they went up to bed , 'if you were to see Winifred Shalcross ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Yow can turn yer tap off , I 'm going up to bed and you , Katie , better get off too , ’ he said , handing me a saucer with a stub of candle on it . |
| 13 | In the end , she made herself a drink of hot milk with a dash of brandy and took it up to bed , taking along the hot water bottle for good measure . |
| 14 | ‘ Go on , up to bed , I 'll settle this … . ’ |
| 15 | One night , ten days after the funeral , as Louise was thinking of going up to bed , Nora began to talk about Constance and her future . |
| 16 | Keith was told that if he went up to bed at 9pm his father would read him a story while he had a quarter cup of cold drinking chocolate . |
| 17 | When he went up to bed he tried again to get the thing off , and so did his wife , but it would n't budge . |
| 18 | By the time she went up to bed her mind was made up . |
| 19 | Hubert would kiss her on the cheek in the morning and when she went up to bed . |
| 20 | Taking the plate gently from him she placed it in the sink , then checked the turkey one last time , turned the gas down as low as it would go and made her way up to bed . |
| 21 | Kissing all the boys , she made her way up to bed , taking her tea with her . |
| 22 | Come on , Nick , up to bed … ’ |
| 23 | But listen , when we go in now , I 'm going to say I 'm not well and then I 'll go up to bed . |
| 24 | I might have read , checked papers before going up to bed . |
| 25 | Sent up to bed in disgrace , she had left the house within the half-hour , taking refuge first with Aunt Millie . |
| 26 | Afterwards , when the boys had gone up to bed , he told Josh that Mabel 's death was an act of retribution on the part of Almighty God . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Come on , let's go up to bed . ’ |
| 28 | Last night , after her parents had gone up to bed , and Aubrey very tactfully made himself scarce , I had a chance to ask her . |
| 29 | David left the salon straight after dinner on the excuse that he had letters to write and , half an hour later , Julia went up to bed early , leaving Comfort and Anthony alone . |
| 30 | I remember one evening we went up to bed , and my head was just spinning because we 'd had about ten ten people had come in , some of them overlapping and some had you know but I 'd say at one stage we had about seven people in the flat together . |