Example sentences of "[been] [prep] bed " in BNC.
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| 1 | Uncle had been in bed for about a month by then , so the doctor arranged for him to go into hospital in Barnard Castle . |
| 2 | The said Steve , the Mountie went on , seemed to have been in bed asleep at the time of his murder , and the Ontario police were wanting to interview Angelica Standish as a suspect . |
| 3 | I had n't been in bed all that long . |
| 4 | You 've been in bed twenty-four hours , |
| 5 | But I could n't tell my mother or father because I should have been in bed by that time . |
| 6 | With only an usher for company , he showed no outward signs of distress as he said : ‘ I had been in bed for five minutes waiting for my mummy . |
| 7 | He should have been in bed , but it was breathlessly hot , and Richard , who was at home , had been irritated by his whining . |
| 8 | Geoffrey Ryan had n't been in bed . |
| 9 | " Oh , but you 've been in bed ! " she exclaimed as soon as she went round the angle . |
| 10 | I 'd put on weight while I 'd been in bed , and the zip on my slacks would n't do up more than half-way . |
| 11 | I 've been in bed all this time . |
| 12 | JACKEY : Tell me , Pamela , hast thou been in bed with thy master ? |
| 13 | But she 's actually been in bed for five days . |
| 14 | I 've been in bed all day . |
| 15 | Apart from that I 've never had a day 's illness in my life ; never been in bed a whole day . |
| 16 | I might have been in bed with measles when I went to school , but nothing else . ’ |
| 17 | He could n't think whether they had been in bed for an hour , or four hours . |
| 18 | Then having to kill forty minutes when he could have been in bed and now this : the delay in visiting the dry cleaner 's meant a vital piece of evidence might have been destroyed . |
| 19 | If I had been a marquis , I felt , I would still have been in bed or perhaps just parting the curtains and peering out to see what kind of day it was But Lord Hulton worked all the time , just about as hard as any of his men . |
| 20 | It were a bit swollen yesterday and he 's been in bed day , when he 's got up this morning that 's how |
| 21 | I heard him leaving because I had n't been in bed very long , and I heard him coming back because I had a bit of indigestion and I could n't sleep . ’ |
| 22 | On the same night , a follow up to a known address in the village in a hunt for a missing suspect led to vehement denials from a mother who said her son had been in bed all the evening . |
| 23 | ‘ Well , I did n't get up Sunday , then I thought I 'd better go in to work on Monday , but I came home early and I 've been in bed ever since . ’ |
| 24 | Just outside Abermule Station on the 26th January 1921 , this train met another head-on , resulting in the deaths of fourteen passengers including Lord Herbert Vane Tempest and Capt. Harold Owen , both directors of the Cambrian Railway and in whose company Haydn Jones should have been in the tea car that morning , had he not been in bed with a chill ! |
| 25 | SHE 'S been in bed with Michael Douglas and Arnold Schwarzenegger . |
| 26 | So how did I come to be in the car in the middle of the night when I should have been in bed sound asleep ? |
| 27 | Well , I had been in bed and asleep earlier in the night . |
| 28 | She pushed herself back against the wall to avoid touching a man but as Owen pressed past her he was as conscious of her roundnesses and softnesses as if he had been in bed beside her . |
| 29 | We have been in bed with the box . |
| 30 | You 've come and read me a bed time story when I have n't been very well and I 've been in bed . |