adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
falls asleep
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I’ll stay with her until she falls asleep .
half asleep
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He looked half asleep .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
almost
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They were almost asleep now, bathed in warm light, half hearing Scriabin on the kitchen radio.
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He waited until I was almost asleep and struck again, just above my ear.
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Later that evening, when I was almost asleep , the sound of a crowd brought me back to full consciousness.
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The patients had all been washed and set up in their chairs and most of them seemed to be almost asleep .
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Fergus looked like he was almost asleep .
fast
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I looked in on you a short while ago and you were fast asleep .
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When her husband was fast asleep she must leave the bed, light the lamp, and get the knife.
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She went back as she had come, fast asleep and docile, her face expressionless.
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Heather turned it slightly and saw that he was fast asleep .
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They kissed, and Felicity fell fast asleep , tired from her journey.
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The second time around, Stafford was fast asleep , wedged in between two large blond businessmen.
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When I looked again, he had fallen fast asleep .
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He had curled up on to his bed at the first opportunity and fallen fast asleep .
half
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The old lady nodded, as if half asleep .
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He never lost his sense of humor, even when he was half asleep .
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Old men with their faces in the page, half asleep , here to escape whatever is out there.
sound
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And in minutes the old man was sound asleep .
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And when he got back to his own hotel, Sabina had been sound asleep .
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Then I fell sound asleep again.
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He and your dad fell sound asleep in the same bed while I read aloud to them.
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The minute she got into bed, she was sound asleep .
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Most others are still sound asleep .
still
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My master was still asleep , as he had been the previous evening when I returned from my love tryst.
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Husbands and grandparents are still asleep in the bedrooms.
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Arty was still asleep , one arm hanging loosely over the side.
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And you are still asleep , my sweet friend.
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Perhaps Mr d'Urberville was still asleep , as he did not like getting up early.
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She was still asleep , or pretending to be, when he got up.
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The sleeping man is still asleep and the other has left.
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Most people in our car were bound for New Orleans and were still asleep .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
fast asleep
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Most of the household was still fast asleep.
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Bless him, he was fast asleep on the sofa.
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He had intended to visit Meryl, who was probably fast asleep by now.
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He lay fast asleep, surrounded by flames and smoke.
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Midnight approaches, and those not on duty are fast asleep.
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She went back as she had come, fast asleep and docile, her face expressionless.
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She would have been fast asleep already, but for the Admiral's early-morning call.
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The second time around, Stafford was fast asleep, wedged in between two large blond businessmen.
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When her husband was fast asleep she must leave the bed, light the lamp, and get the knife.
sound asleep
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And when he got back to his own hotel, Sabina had been sound asleep.
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He and your dad fell sound asleep in the same bed while I read aloud to them.
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I would have wakened you earlier but you were sound asleep.
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It's fantastic, John, there she is, a new person, lying on her face, sound asleep.
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The child was sound asleep now, his tiny eyelashes resting on rounded cheeks.
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The minute she got into bed, she was sound asleep.
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Then I fell sound asleep again.
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When Captain and Mrs Burrows came home exhausted after their demanding day all the children would be sound asleep.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Kelly was asleep on the sofa.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At 7: 30 Celestine, dripping with sweat, returned to the bed where Stafford was still deep asleep .
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But I was in the back of the wagon once and fell asleep .
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He roused Alexander White, 69, who was asleep in a first-floor flat filled with heavy smoke.
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He was lying under his shirt, asleep .
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It drove him mad to think of a stranger standing next to our beds at night, and him asleep .
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She did not fall asleep until daybreak.
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The child was sound asleep now, his tiny eyelashes resting on rounded cheeks.
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They were both asleep in moments.