Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] bed " in BNC.
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| 1 | GPs have cottoned on to it and are clamouring for beds . |
| 2 | ( Even her leaping into bed with him again . |
| 3 | I remember once when she was climbing into bed in her Waaf-issue blue striped pyjamas , a cheeky little field mouse popped up from between her sheets where it had evidently been nesting , and streaked across the hut to disappear down a convenient crack in the wooden wall . |
| 4 | I can think of nothing less appealing than climbing into bed with you — which is why I intend to sleep in the ante-room . |
| 5 | Climbing into bed , she switched out the light and turned on to her side . |
| 6 | ‘ You mean the summer of your dreams for me , ’ Charity said , climbing into bed . |
| 7 | Leaping from bed to be done learns nothing of any depth . ’ |
| 8 | Back at the academy , Ethel sat fuming in bed and watched from her window as the pupils rose like a flock of bats into the twilight and sailed away without her . |
| 9 | Sarella lay fuming in bed for a few minutes before flinging back the duvet and running to the window . |
| 10 | I was nourished on stories like these ; William Wallace , slaying half a dozen English soldiers with his fishing rod ; Bruce , before Bannockburn , felling an English knight with one stroke from his slender battle-axe ; and when I was a boy I contracted a mortal dread of dying in bed . |
| 11 | In reality , however , the majority of the homeless are families , particularly single-parent families , living in bed and breakfast lodgings or cheap hotels while they wait to be rehoused by the local council . |
| 12 | There are now 100 families in the town living in bed and breakfast hotels and more than 60 placed in hostels the situation is so bad that the council has been unable to move anyone off its waiting list for almost two months . |
| 13 | The number of families living in bed and breakfast accommodation in the town rose by 50 to 85 last month . |
| 14 | MIDDLESBROUGH : The number of families living in bed and breakfast accommodation in the town rose by 50 to 85 last month . |
| 15 | He inhaled and stared at the ceiling ; smoking in bed was something his wife did n't like , it was only on business trips that he managed it , depending on the company . |
| 16 | Did you check their tenancy agreement , because it was a pretty Machiavellian , Dickensian tenancy agreement , if you 're found smoking in bed for example , you were out the next morning , those sort of things , and I think you really ought to look at that very carefully . |
| 17 | Since a high proportion , normally at or near 100 per cent , of their work was in teacher education , looking at BEd proposals meant in fact judging the institution as a whole , and the CNAA knew from the outset that many of the colleges hoping for validation would not be adequately staffed , experienced and resourced to teach at degree level . |
| 18 | ‘ Should n't these two be heading for bed ? ’ |
| 19 | But what I thought if you 're going to leave and you 're going in bed and breakfast , I 've got that sandwich toaster , cos get your breakfast , bed and breakfast right ? |
| 20 | I remember lying in bed and the only thing I could see was the dim glow of the light bulb on the ceiling . |
| 21 | I was lying in bed , happy , and then Marie comes home and she 's all bashed up , then she says I hate her . |
| 22 | Elsie Hogan , her young face wasted and gaunt , was lying in bed reading a letter . |
| 23 | Three days later , Mr Koc said he was taken from his room at the hospital to another room where a man was lying in bed watched by his wife and six-month-old baby . |
| 24 | Three days later , Mr Koc said he was taken from his room at the hospital to another room where a man was lying in bed watched by his wife and six-month-old baby . |
| 25 | Lying in bed that evening , they talked a lot about their life together . |
| 26 | Anthony was always on the phone , rushing about like a bull in a china shop , or lying in bed till twelve with one or other of his girlfriends . |
| 27 | Everyone else in her class would be spending the holidays riding or playing in the hills or lying in bed until midday . |
| 28 | Usually , at this time , they were lying in bed talking . |
| 29 | Lying in bed and being looked after and enveloped in love , by day and by night . |
| 30 | It 's a kind of dreamtime — the darkness , the way you 're almost lying in bed . |