noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bedside cupboard British English (= a small cupboard beside a bed )
a table/desk/bedside lamp
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He read by the light of the bedside lamp.
bedside manner
bedside/kitchen/dining-room table
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They were chatting around the kitchen table.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
cabinet
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Proving very popular are the new serpentine bedside cabinets in real satinwood handpainted with classical motifs, at about £600.
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The bedside cabinet held a bottle of aspirin; they might help.
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He slammed the milk bottle down on top of the bedside cabinet , pulling the drawer open.
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For an instant, his gaze had shifted to the bedside cabinet , where their whisky glasses stood beneath the lamp.
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She had bumped her arm on the little bedside cabinet .
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Slipping off her ring, she put it on the bedside cabinet with an inward sigh.
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Harry propped himself up on one elbow and pulled open the top drawer of the bedside cabinet .
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Cadogan cherrywood bedside cabinet , with bronzed effect handles.
clock
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She glanced at the bedside clock .
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Peering at the little bedside clock , she groaned.
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After a long time she looked at her bedside clock and saw that it was past midnight.
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Each was given a bedside clock as a prize-winner - just to make sure they get off to school on time!
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Apart from her own breathing, the ticking of the bedside clock was the only sound.
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Pushing the hair from his face he looked at the bedside clock .
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His sleep-crammed eyes clambered across to the bedside clock and widened when they read it was five fifteen in the morning.
hospital
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And while Mr Stevens's bride was keeping a round-the-clock at his hospital bedside , burglars ransacked their home.
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Blonde Sue was one of the first people at his hospital bedside in Manchester Royal Infirmary.
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Mr Ashraf's family have been at his hospital bedside for much of the day.
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Last night Clare's parents were at her hospital bedside as she recovered after an operation on her horrific wounds.
lamp
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She turned off the bedside lamp , and then she lay there, not moving.
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Sliding between the bedcovers, she flicked off the bedside lamp and snuggled down into the enveloping warmth.
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There was an overhead light with no lampshade and a bedside lamp on the floor which didn't work.
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Switching off the bedside lamp , he leapt into position behind the slowly opening door.
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Lighting consisted of a 40-watt bulb in the ceiling and a bedside lamp with another 40-watt bulb.
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She switched on the bedside lamp and looked dazedly at the clock.
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He reached her side and his hand moved to her bedside lamp .
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He does not bother to turn on the bedside lamp .
light
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Stephen waited and then put out his bedside light .
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They stayed downstairs talking, and it was nearly midnight before Maltravers turned off his bedside light .
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Dressing tables, bedside lights , linen and towels available, vacuum cleaner, iron and ironing board.
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Harry put on the bedside light and saw the glass of milk, the two biscuits.
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A bedside light should be placed so the light source is above your head but not shining directly on to your eyes.
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He got into bed beside her and turned off his bedside light .
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Groping for the bedside light , she knocked her alarm clock off the table.
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Zaria snuffled and turned on her back as I put the bedside light on.
manner
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Putting on my best bedside manner , I went to the cheerful locals.
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He's very conscientious, it's just he doesn't have much of a bedside manner .
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His bedside manner was, in a word, menacing.
table
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He put a thousand-franc note on his bedside table and told the porter to let Modigliani in whenever he wanted.
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Liz tiptoed to switch on the lamp on the bedside table .
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The shrill notes of the telephone, on Anna's bedside table , shocked them awake.
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Not daring to put on the light, she sat up and felt for the glass of water on the bedside table .
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Mungo remembered seeing her teeth in a glass on the bedside table .
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She sighed, and turned to pick up the clock on the bedside table .
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He threw her off, and started to reach towards the lamp on the bedside table .
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Turning awkwardly towards the bedside table , she picked up a glass of water and sipped the warm liquid gratefully.
■ VERB
leave
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She knew few other details and left my bedside to gossip with the other nurses in the hallway.
sit
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I now sat by her bedside and worked out ratios.
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If she was lying down, he sat at her bedside and talked to her.
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He had spent his grief in the day and night he had sat at her bedside .
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His daughter Amanda sat at his bedside in stiff, pout-lipped profile, reading some piece of religious mumbo-jumbo.
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The result of weeks of clandestine planning sat now inside the bedside cupboard.
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Two people sat at her bedside in the little cubicle contained by the screens.
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Gabriel sat by his bedside , uncertain if she wished him to live or die.
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Jacob had sat by her bedside and cried.
switch
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She switched on the bedside lamp and looked dazedly at the clock.
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With that thought, once Peter had left she switched out the bedside lamp and burrowed down.
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She'd forgotten her strange feelings of the night before until she switched off the bedside lamp.
turn
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She turned off the bedside lamp, and then she lay there, not moving.
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He does not bother to turn on the bedside lamp.
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We turn our bedside lamps on.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The doctor sat by his bedside .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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She looked at her watch on her bedside table and noted it was eight-thirty.
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She pointed to the mustard-colored plas-tic pitcher on the stainless-steel table by the bedside .
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Stephen waited and then put out his bedside light.
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They fell with a thud upon his bedside chair.
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William took her empty glass and put it with his on the bedside table.