I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a flower bed (= an area for growing flowers in a garden )
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The flower beds had been weeded.
a hospital bed
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There is a shortage of hospital beds.
a river bed (= the bottom of a river )
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They walked along a dry river bed.
bed and board
bed and breakfast
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Is there anyone who does bed and breakfast round here?
bed bath
bed linen
camp bed
chair/bed/sofa etc
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Is that chair comfortable?
confined to bed
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She’s confined to bed with flu.
double bed
feather bedding
feather bed/pillow etc (= a bed etc that is filled with feathers )
four-poster bed
go to bed early
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I think I’ll go to bed early tonight.
in bed with flu
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Steven’s still in bed with flu .
long-stay hospital/ward/bed etc
oyster bed
river bed
sb's sick bed (= the bed where a sick person is lying )
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He left his sick bed to play in the game.
sofa bed
the sea bed ( also the sea floor ) (= the land at the bottom of the sea )
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A lot of these small creatures feed on the sea bed.
twin bed
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twin-bedded rooms
wet...bed
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Sam’s wet his bed again.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
double
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The visiting officer found him living in one room which was almost entirely filled by a double bed .
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A double bed with a quilt.
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Two double bedrooms, bed and breakfast, central heating.
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The fact that sharing a double bed with my sister made me uncomfortable.
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Lounge with bed settee makes a double bed.
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Our room was barely big enough for a double bed and a couple of dinner-plate-size bedside tables.
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Choose either a suite with double bed or large suite with double bed plus double bed settee for one or two children.
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There was a double bed with a clock-radio on a table beside it.
single
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Bedroom with 2 single beds or bunks.
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There is just enough room for a narrow single bed .
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A Victorian mahogany single bed with walnut ends sold for £420; an Edwardian inlaid mahogany wardrobe and dressing table, £360.
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One of the important things to take into account when designing single bed Fair Isle patterns is the length of the floats.
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Some contained a single bed , others were twin-bedded.
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There was a miniature rocking chair, and against the end wall a single bed with a miniature canopy over it.
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In it was a single bed and also the cradle in which she and Jessie had lain many years ago.
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I made his socks on my Singer KE2400 single bed machine which I have had for years.
twin
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He was staring at the twin beds .
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Stairs lead to where the children will be sequestered and it has twin beds and its own bathroom, thank goodness.
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Two bedrooms with twin single beds .
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Surkov and I sprawled on the twin beds .
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They slept in twin beds in the front bedroom of 93 Mafeking Street.
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She did not go to the room with the twin beds but to the single room with the sloping ceiling.
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Tamar was lying on one of the twin beds wearing a pair of silk lounging pyjamas.
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Twenty heated minutes later he collapsed on to his twin bed , and turned on the telly.
■ NOUN
bunk
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The only apparent relief from chess were two dolls and a golliwog on Judit's bunk bed .
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The rooms were actually quite luxurious with a shower, colour television and duvet covered bunk beds .
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Justin has an upper berth on one of two sets of bunk beds that take up most of the tiny room.
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Bedroom with bunk beds for two. 6 to 8 berth Luxury Caravans.
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The room, about the size of my apartment, was lined with fiberglass pallets arranged in tiers like bizarre bunk beds .
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The earthen floor was covered with planks and on either side were two rough bunk beds .
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The tills are stacked like bunk beds , 9 to 10 feet high.
flower
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There were roses bedded out, climbing in flower beds, in pots and cut.
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Alpine strawberries either can be planted in a bed or around flower beds.
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The apartments are idyllically set amongst lovely flower beds , palm trees and tropical shrubs.
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Q: I have planted a border of red salvia around my flower beds .
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Uncle Albert was squatting down by the flower bed doing a spot of weeding.
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The grass was mowed, the flower beds were weeded and edged.
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A flower bed could be used, or a low wall built.
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And, between the shops, the colorful patches of flower beds made it all appear orderly and safe.
hospital
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Plain hospital beds with flock mattresses laid on interlaced wire springs were for the junior members of the staff.
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The family and I gathered around his hospital bed .
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Nobody across the programme was dragged kicking and screaming out of their hospital bed into the community.
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Penny lay in another hospital bed suffering the acute, painful stages of the disease.
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I was surprised how weak and light-headed I felt on nipping out of my hospital bed to recover a dropped book.
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In her late fifties, she lay in the hospital bed with a rapidly progressing pancreatic cancer.
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Pooley covered his ears. 14 Small Dave lay in his hospital bed for some days before the doctors released him.
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At eighty-two, Margarett, reclining on a hospital bed in an apartment high above Boston, told me the story.
linen
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It was decided in 1983 that students would in future be required to provide their own bed linen and towels.
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Burun could hear her ordering the slaves to unpack the boxes of bed linen .
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The twice-soaked bed linen lights quickly, paraffin overcoming blood.
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He has also chewed three torches, three combs, two hair brushes, and my bed linen .
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Relatives often have to provide non-medical care as well, and patients have to bring in their own blankets and bed linen .
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A floral chintz fabric is used at the windows and for the upholstered seat and valance under the white bed linen .
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Make sure they are cared for, with clean clothing and bed linen .
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Floral bed linen and a plain white quilted bedcover with masses of appliqued cushions, for example, capture the romantic look perfectly.
river
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A particularly interesting feature of the trestle piers was the method used for founding them on irregular river beds .
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These species do not grow in association with Lagenandra and Hygrophila because they do not occur in river beds .
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By 1803 the river beds , in some parts of the city, were two or three metres above the city.
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The cryptocorynes occur mainly in cultures of single species on overgrown river beds and are exposed to the conditions of amphibious life.
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It was thus possible to assemble a bridge pier and lower it complete on to the river bed .
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The entrepreneur made a million dollars out of Pet Rocks-rocks that you could find in any river bed .
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To my astonishment I find that we use the river bed as a road.
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By proceeding a little further, a scrambling descent to the river bed may be made.
sea
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Their army flees on to the exposed sea bed , and there gets bogged down.
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The bell was now lowered very gradually, as she would be from here to the sea bed .
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While nodules are loose deposits, lying on the sea bed , sulphides are massive deposits below the ocean floor.
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Here the waters are split and piled up either side of a pathway across the sea bed .
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This accumulates on the sea bed as coral sand.
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The slimy floor of shifting sediment is useless to young oysters in search of a hard sea bed for a lifetime's home.
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These were most likely to have been zeroed by the action of sunlight prior to their deposition on the sea bed .
■ VERB
climb
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There were roses bedded out, climbing in flower beds, in pots and cut.
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Denver climbed up on the bed and folded her arms under her apron.
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Once they had settled when and where, he climbed back into bed , hoping to catch another hour of sleep.
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How could I not climb to my bed as she asked?
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Ralph his son and now his wife all began to climb the stairs to bed .
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He climbed into bed and lay on his side, not moving and scarcely breathing.
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After he had turned off all the lights and climbed into bed , he felt Susan turning him over.
crawl
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She crawled out of bed , peered into the mirror, and gave a small groan.
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He was so tired his bones ached; but he crawled out of bed , put on his pants and watch.
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A second slab of beef has crawled out of bed and found his doorknob.
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Once, a few years ago, his father had broken into the house and crawled into his bed .
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It would be wonderful to crawl into bed , to ask Matron for an aspirin.
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She snapped him up as soon as he finished the sausage she fed him and he crawled into her bed crying.
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She crawled on to the bed and hugged herself like a child with no one there to bring comfort.
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Jen came out of the bathroom, dressed in a shirt this time, and crawled into bed alongside me.
fall
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Little Nemo falling out of his bed at the end of every strip still brings a wry smile.
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At night I fall into bed weary instead of tense.
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Safely in her room, she fell on her bed and began to cry.
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They fell into bed , and then he was writhing under her twitching hair.
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She opened her and Clare's bedroom door and fell across Clare's bed , which was nearest.
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He was terribly frustrated and kept trying until he fell back on his bed , exhausted.
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A long sliver of light fell across Senga's bed , sparkling off lustrous black hair.
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He sets the phone back into the receiver and falls on to the bed .
get
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I wanted to get to bed early so that I could be up in time for the naming ceremony of the new catapult.
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She takes off her shoes, gets into bed and picks up her book, but she does not look at it.
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John gets down under the bed , awkwardly pulling himself forward with his elbows.
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He got out of bed and put on his faded burgundy dressing gown.
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When at last she got into bed she allowed herself a few angry tears, then brushed them furiously away.
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He also began to get weaker and weaker until he could not get out of bed .
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But almost immediately Kafka - me, dammit - begins thinking again, and I get out of bed .
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He goes to getting ready for bed , pulling off his clothes.
go
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Few of us go to bed sober, he pronounced.
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I went up to the bed , took a deep breath, and turned the covering back.
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He could - should! - get off now and go to bed .
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I was just going to bed , he said.
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The younger boys go to bed at nine o'clock.
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It wasn't until after he had gone to bed that Willie asked about the room.
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Shall we go to bed , now?
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Putting a sober expression on his face, he went to the bed .
jump
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She jumped out of bed and, pulling on her shirt, darted next door into the head.
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I jumped off the brass bed and ran down the path toward the house.
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She jumped out of bed and ran to the window.
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One time he jumped out of bed in the middle of the afternoon and put on a suit and tie.
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I went to my room and locked the door and ... I jumped into bed and pulled the duvet right over me.
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He ran ahead quickly, jumped into bed , and pretended to be asleep as the princesses returned to their room.
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When Charlie woke the next morning he jumped out of bed immediately and was washed and dressed before anyone else had stirred.
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But just then McMurphy jumped off his bed and went to rustling through his nightstand, and I hushed.
lie
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She had lain on her bed at her farmhouse home on January 2 and put a double-barrelled shotgun to her head.
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But Helen lay in her bed under the roof as silent and immovable as the body of her child.
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He was lying in bed in Miles and Juliet's spare room.
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Blue gets back to his room on Orange Street, lies down on his bed , and tries to weigh the possibilities.
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Later, as they lay in bed listening to the rain, John wondered how their new life together would ever work.
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For the most part, he either lies on his bed or paces back and forth in his room.
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Hugh lay in the bed with tears on his face.
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We had lain in the same bed for a whole night, and she told me the story of her life.
put
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But there is a problem when it comes to putting the girls to bed .
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They put on a bed sheet and ride around trying to get something out of their systems.
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You two, Luke and Helen, can put yourselves to bed .
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Both of them were soldiers and both were wounded and put in the same bed .
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If Olwyn did not go of her own accord she was taken, undressed and washed and put to bed forcibly.
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Another comes each evening to put him back in bed .
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The ground crew can now work to refuel, clean the squashed bugs off the bubble and put the aircraft to bed .
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Somebody put sticks in my bed .
share
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It was a small house so they had to share a bed .
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Every woman has her own ideas, and often those ideas are not shared by the man who shares her bed .
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Even the thought of sharing a bed with him didn't seem so threatening when he was being kind.
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The couple and four children share a bed and a fold-out cot in the only bedroom.
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The Child Poverty Action Group says children are forced to share beds in households deprived of basics such as wardrobes and carpets.
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We stayed in hotels, sharing single beds in small dark rooms.
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They'd shared a bed in Cumberland and she had comforted Gordon because nothing was quite right.
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Two, sometimes three, generations can be found sharing a bed .
sit
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Later, he sat on the bed , his insides chilled, his throat raw.
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After a moment, Slim sat down on the bed opposite my chair.
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Then she sat on the bed next to Sarah.
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After Polly left, I undressed and sat on the bed , the package in my lap.
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Philippa sat cross-legged beside the bed , as if meditating on the carpet.
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She used to come into his room and sit there by his bed and cry.
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My hair sticks to it when I sit up in bed .
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My stoned ex-roommate had sat dazed on his bed , the eviction notice in his hands, while I packed furiously.
sitting
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An hour later Peggy was sitting by Victoria's bed .
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He was sitting on the bed when they took out their guns.
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And then she was sitting on the bed and he had his arms about her.
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We were sitting together on the bed .
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She was sitting on a diagnostic bed in what was obviously a medlab of some kind.
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As they pass the other cabin, Primo notices, through its lit window, Angelita, sitting cross-legged on a bed .
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I pictured nocturnal gamblers crouching over their cards, sleepless lovers writing letters, nurses sitting by the beds of invalids.
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Lisa Sands, 30, is sitting up in bed , beginning to form words and opening her eyes.
sleep
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He had been brought up in a hut where six people slept in one bed .
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He wanted a story from me-and then to sleep in my bed .
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Nowadays we need the iron fist of policing in order that we might sleep soundly in our beds .
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Like Jackson Till, who slept under the bed .
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We made up a bed on the floor and we took turns to sleep in the bed itself.
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Help your children learn to go to sleep in their beds and without your help.
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They need somewhere warm and soft to sleep and the bed should be made twice as thick as it is normally.
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She told Chucha civilized people had to sleep on beds , coffins were for corpses.
stay
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They explained that they were poor and that the sick man was rich and could afford to stay in bed without working.
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It made it tough to stay in bed until the dorm lights came on at six-thirty.
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He then sparked off a row by suggesting that floating voters should stay in bed on polling day.
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When she felt bad, she would go to bed and stay in bed for a day or two at a time.
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You can stay in bed all day if you like.
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I wanted to stay by this bed , protecting the child.
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If you are a benighted official, go home and stay in bed .
tuck
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After the ball Dot tucked her up in bed and promised her a cup of cocoa with brandy in it.
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Affection may be expressed with hugs, smiles, pats on the head, friendly greetings, and being tucked into bed .
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Perhaps some one's still there, or she's tucking Darius up in bed .
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His body ached to be tucked into bed for the night or for eternity.
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But when you know that she's safely tucked up in bed , you come out with a towel around you.
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He tucked the chintzy bed cover over his sleeping friend and switched off the light.
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After this bad day, anyone not tucked up in bed is making them suspicious.
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At about midnight when all the children were tucked up in bed we visited the Grotto.
wet
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Even dry children may wet the bed under stress, like a change of school, a divorce or moving house.
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Another makes a pet of a snowball, which wets the bed then runs away.
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It made the sheets feel as if she'd wet the bed .
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Tickle him until he wets the bed .
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Child may wet the bed and have constipation.
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Every other night he wet his bed , and he argued with Clarisa almost constantly.
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Depth of sleep Many parents say that they think their child wets the bed because of being in such deep sleep.
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Dear Kidsday: My 8-year-old sister still wets the bed !
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be tucked up in bed
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At about midnight when all the children were tucked up in bed we visited the Grotto.
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Five minutes later she was tucked up in bed, sleeping happily once again, while Jake had retreated to his little ante-room.
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Most girls never drink or smoke, and are tucked up in bed by midnight.
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Next day John is tucked up in bed at his flat in Tufnell Park.
crawl into/out of bed
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He was so tired his bones ached; but he crawled out of bed, put on his pants and watch.
orthopedic bed/chair/shoe etc
single bed/room etc
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A single room supplement of £8 per person per night applies at hotels indicated.
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Additional night, single room and upgrade prices are available.
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His own family-seven strong-live in a single room in the house.
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Lounge / dining / kitchen areas with seating which converts to a double or two single beds are required.
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One of the important things to take into account when designing single bed Fair Isle patterns is the length of the floats.
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Supplements per person per night: No single room supplement.
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Supplements per person per night: No supplement in single rooms without private facilities.
sth is not a bed of roses
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Our marriage hasn't been a bed of roses .
take to your bed
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But on 20 November, his condition worsened, and he took to his bed.
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He was depressed, so severely that he took to his bed.
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If he took to his bed now, he might as well stay there - permanently.
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Old Eugene had taken to his bed.
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We are told it was a bilious attack which had forced Désirée to take to her bed instead of the boards.
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Whenever there's a whiff of trouble she takes to her bed with the asthma.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a double bed
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an old brass bed
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Smooth stones covered the creek bed .
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the river bed
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I tiptoe over to her bed and give her a nudge.
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I was back in a few minutes, but the boy was not on his bed .
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She slides her hand under the mattress on the double bed , brings out a revolver and slips it into her bag.
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She thought Robin must sleep in this bed with Penny, curled around her protectively as you would sleep with a kitten.
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The screens were around the bed and the draught from the door set them billowing like sails.
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We made love in my big bed as the lemon light of winter days passed into reddish nights.
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Were they to be three in that huge bed ?
II. verb
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
orthopedic bed/chair/shoe etc
single bed/room etc
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A single room supplement of £8 per person per night applies at hotels indicated.
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Additional night, single room and upgrade prices are available.
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His own family-seven strong-live in a single room in the house.
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Lounge / dining / kitchen areas with seating which converts to a double or two single beds are required.
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One of the important things to take into account when designing single bed Fair Isle patterns is the length of the floats.
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Supplements per person per night: No single room supplement.
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Supplements per person per night: No supplement in single rooms without private facilities.
sth is not a bed of roses
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Our marriage hasn't been a bed of roses .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Are you about ready to bed down for the night, Bern?
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It can also be used to bed wood floor blocks, cork and vinyl tiles.
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Luch bedded on a bag of bracken in a corner, but she and Ranald woke earlier than the old man.
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So the total effect was like bedding down for the night on the north face of Kilimanjaro.