I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
half awake
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I was only half awake .
jerked...awake
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The sound of the phone jerked me awake .
keep calm/awake/sane etc
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I was struggling to keep awake.
lie still/awake etc
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She would lie awake worrying.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
fully
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The sound of footsteps on the deck above her head brought her fully awake .
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I was fully awake , but kept seeing the snake slide over the log.
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She startled fully awake , alert.
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Meanwhile, the cognitive dissonance of the experience should shock any uniformitarian in the audience fully awake .
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Now fully awake , fright overcame her.
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His face fell and he began to sob as he came fully awake and remembered that even that was no longer true.
still
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She looked across to see if her father was still awake .
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So for those of you who are still awake , she comes from Montreal.
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She'd found the Man of her dreams, except she was still awake .
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Michelle was also still awake , uncurtained windows admitting the light of September's last moon.
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From somewhere in the lower regions of the house, laughter told Beth that Luther Reynolds was still awake .
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At four in the morning, in sheets clammy with sweat, she was still awake .
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Ellen was still awake , talking in the stateroom with Rickie, but everyone else seemed asleep.
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Adam sighed and switched off the light by the side of the desk so they wouldn't know he was still awake .
wide
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In an instant Fabia was wide awake and, with a drumming heart, she put on the light.
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As the train slid slowly into Asansol station, Brother Mariadas, suddenly wide awake , shook me out of my reverie.
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The hedgehog caper had somehow affected his pattern of sleep and he was wide awake at six, with nowhere to go.
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After an hour, though still wide awake , I crimped the page and turned off the light.
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Bright green lizards were scuttling over a clump of tree-roots twice as tall as Alan, and he was wide awake .
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Miles and Evan are so wide awake , it is exhausting.
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When he came to bed, hours later it seemed, she was wide awake .
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Jack was wide awake , in his red silk pajamas and red silk robe.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
wide open/awake/apart
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He sat with his legs wide apart.
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It was 3 a.m., but I was wide awake.
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The door was wide open when we got here.
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After an hour, though still wide awake, I crimped the page and turned off the light.
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But from what I gathered at the arts fair, the field is pretty wide open.
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My big worry is that the Monster will come wide awake and ruin things with its gross demands.
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The doors of the Conch cafe were wide open with no sign of Huong or Anna; they had probably evacuated.
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The main door stood wide open making a through draught.
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These are still very early days and the options are wide open.
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They were certainly the first means of crossing wide open spaces that are still vast and untamed, even today.
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Turning the corner into Polly's road, Jack noticed suddenly that the door to her house was wide open.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"Are you awake , Lucy?" she whispered.
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Are you awake ?
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Barely awake , we stumbled out of the tent to find ourselves in a foot of water.
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Ben lay awake , worrying about next day's exam.
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Ellen was determined to stay awake , despite the late hour.
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Gretchen wandered into the kitchen, only half awake and looking for coffee.
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He listened, only half awake , as the teacher's voice droned on.
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I'm usually awake before anyone else.
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I've lain awake at nights, turning the problem over and over in my mind.
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I've stopped drinking coffee in the evenings, as it tends to keep me awake at night.
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I was still wide awake at 2:00 a.m. when Jody came home.
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It was nearly three in the morning, but Jill was still wide awake .
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John, are you awake ? I think I heard someone downstairs.
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Some members of the audience were clearly having difficulty staying awake .
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They won't allow us to see her until the anesthesia had worn off and she's fully awake .
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When she returned to the bedroom, Jamie was awake .
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Will I be awake by the time I get back to the ward?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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About 2 a. m. he was jerked awake by noises.
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He was awake now, and he knew what had happened.
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It was about this time that we seemed to come awake again.
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Shall he doubt whether he is awake , whether he is being pinched, or whether he is being burned?
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She tossed and turned, willing herself to stay awake .
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She was all right, she was awake .
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So for those of you who are still awake , she comes from Montreal.
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We lay awake for hours, each immersed in his or her own thoughts.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
lay
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In the intervening days Flora walked on air, or lay awake in her dormitory rehearsing the things she would tell Felix.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I awoke, feeling that someone was nearby.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And then one day it awoke.
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Chapter Twelve Melissa slept late and awoke with a splitting headache.
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I awoke in pain, still hung over from the Nembles, and from there I proceeded to stumble downhill.
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I awoke to rain and sleet pounding on the roof, and to the sound of rushing wind.
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I would place the picture next to my bed so that I could see it first thing when I awoke.
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She awoke around 2: 30 a.m. and went to work.
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When he awoke, he was next to a fire.