I.verbCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a sleep pattern
▪ Disturbed sleep patterns may be a symptom of depression.
a sleeping pill
▪ I took a sleeping pill and tried to go back to sleep.
a sleeping tablet
▪ Sleeping tablets can be addictive.
beauty sleep
catch up on some sleep (=after a period without enough sleep)
▪ I need to catch up on some sleep.
cry yourself to sleep (=cry until you fall asleep)
▪ That night he cried himself to sleep.
die in your sleep
▪ During the night he died in his sleep.
disturb sb's sleep
▪ Local people said their sleep was being disturbed by the noise from the aircraft.
drifting into sleep
▪ She was just drifting into sleep when the alarm went off.
drifting off to sleep
▪ He felt himself drifting off to sleep.
fell into...deep sleep
▪ He lay down and fell into a deep sleep.
fitful sleep
▪ John awoke from a fitful sleep.
get back to sleep
▪ I couldn’t get back to sleep.
get off to sleep
▪ I went to bed but couldn’t get off to sleep.
gone off to sleep
▪ I’d just gone off to sleep when the phone rang.
have a look/walk/sleep/talk/think etc
▪ We were just having a look around.
▪ Are you going to have a swim?
REM sleep
rouse sb from sleep/dreams etc
▪ A persistent ringing roused Christina from a pleasant dream.
sang...to sleep
▪ She patiently sang the baby to sleep.
seating/sleeping arrangements (=plans for where people will sit/sleep)
▪ What are the seating arrangements for dinner?
send...to sleep
▪ His lectures always send me to sleep.
sit/lie/sleep on the floor
▪ Officers found her lying face down on the floor.
Sleep deprivation
▪ Sleep deprivation can result in mental disorders.
sleep under the stars (=in a place with no roof)
▪ In the desert, they slept out under the stars.
sleeping bag
sleeping car
sleeping partner
sleeping pill
sleeping policeman
sleeping sickness
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
again
▪ Disturbed by this strange and brutal event, Tallis found it hard to get to sleep again.
▪ He would drift off to sleep again, only to wake and look at the clock.
▪ I buried myself deeper in the warmth of my own blanket and slept again.
▪ I dozed off, started awake, and then I slept again, only to wake once more.
▪ Mrs Wright had dropped off to sleep again, making a kind of whistling noise through her mouth.
▪ Still mute, he curled up on the seat and went to sleep again.
▪ That night I knew for sure I never would sleep again.
▪ The Dormouse woke up for a minute and then went to sleep again.
around
▪ He was sleeping around a lot, which was something he had not done before.
▪ Not doing hard drugs anymore, and sleeping around with Lenin.
▪ Half the girls felt both boys and girls deserved a bad name if they slept around.
▪ There have even been scandalous economists like Thorstein Veblen, who slept around.
▪ A loose girl who sleeps around and has got herself pregnant!
▪ I suppose she meant if she put me on the Pill she was letting me sleep around.
▪ He may sleep around and shoot about.
▪ Drink and drugs were derigeur and sleeping around was still very fashionable.
badly
▪ Louisa had slept badly and dreamed ill.
▪ She slept badly and felt tired and depressed all day on Sunday even though she saw John briefly late in the evening.
▪ She had slept badly, tossing and turning in the heat though the room had been cool enough.
▪ Baldwin slept badly and briefly, uncertain about the wisdom or precision of his nocturnal negotiations.
▪ He was sleeping badly, and he knew Celia was worried about him.
▪ She'd slept badly and felt numb with weariness and grief.
▪ She slept badly, often waking to listen so that she would not his going in the morning.
fitfully
▪ Moran himself slept fitfully beside their brother.
▪ I slept fitfully, dreaming that a rat was softly nuzzling my ear.
▪ I slept fitfully but well enough, disturbed only by the comings and goings of my companions.
▪ Turning off the light, she slid back under the covers and closed her eyes to sleep fitfully until noon.
▪ My brother, who slept fitfully at home, threw up at school.
▪ Aspirin kept the fever at bay after that, but he slept fitfully all night.
in
▪ Having a comfortable bed to sleep in is a luxury that most of us take for granted.
▪ It also featured the standard-issue metal bar that jabs viciously into your back no matter what position you try to sleep in.
▪ The staff say you always look as if you've been sleeping in haystacks these days.
▪ No doubt you are out there hacking away instead of sleeping in on Sunday morning.
▪ The one she had slept in for years before moving upstairs this summer to share with Thérèse.
▪ While sleeping in one of the beds upstairs, she was discovered by the bears, and she ran away.
▪ The police bed was the most comfortable he had slept in for years, and the meal really good.
▪ It is only at night that I get a little corner to sleep in.
late
▪ Chapter Twelve Melissa slept late and awoke with a splitting headache.
▪ Flavia herself that morning had slept late.
▪ On Sundays they would sleep late.
▪ Mornings, she'd sleep late.
▪ He slept late, and when he awoke the wind was rising in the rafters.
never
▪ She felt both exhausted and keyed up, as though she would never sleep.
▪ For he had never slept, and therefore he did not know that one could wake again....
▪ The time was after eleven and he was tired but he could never sleep without reading for a few minutes at least.
▪ Even if I were interested in Martin, I would never sleep with some one who had access to my medical records.
▪ We have never slept apart and still I do not know him.
▪ Yesterday, the city that never sleeps, slept.
▪ Valerie, aged twenty-three, had never slept away from home since they had moved to the town almost twenty years before.
▪ Like an actual military campaign, the operation never slept.
on
▪ Which side of the bed do you sleep on now?
▪ Sunk deep into the pillows, I sleep on and on into the day.
▪ The sort of people who want Impreza Turbos are happy to sleep on the floor after parties.
▪ It has been slept on for almost a month, even though snow has come and, with it, serious winter.
▪ We were in soft class which meant you had a bed to sleep on - a sort of cot.
▪ The water was above his ankles, flowing over the wooden plank he slept on.
▪ Now, that's something to sleep on.
▪ We can not sleep on the bed, can not sleep on the pillow.
peacefully
▪ Beside him, Dimity slept peacefully, but the rector could not rest.
▪ I slept peacefully all night long.
▪ But Emily lay beside him, sleeping peacefully.
▪ There was Twoflower, sleeping peacefully on the low bed.
▪ She banished them from her mind and glanced back at Clarissa who was sleeping peacefully.
▪ The baby slept peacefully in its cradle.
soundly
▪ He slept soundly, even through the winter gales.
▪ These kept her very snug and warm and she slept soundly until morning.
▪ Thirteen Meg slept soundly that first night.
▪ Ishmael passes the night sleeping soundly.
▪ Within seconds Maggie was sleeping soundly.
▪ She searched through all the mattresses and featherbeds, pulled out the pea, and then slept soundly.
▪ She'd already checked his room and he was sleeping soundly.
▪ For the first time in weeks, Ted Iacenda will sleep soundly tonight.
together
▪ She had obviously enticed Patrick to run away with her - were they sleeping together, she wondered briefly?
▪ For ten days we ate together, slept together, never spent two minutes apart.
▪ Leith's mouth fell open in surprise as she realised that this awful man thought she and Travis were sleeping together.
▪ If it is possible, we will sleep together.
▪ And, of course, not sleep together, which they mustn't do if they're living apart either.
▪ Jeff had some funny lines on sleeping together and swimming lessons at school strange how Len Fairclough kept cropping up.
▪ Seventy-five percent of couples said sleeping together all the time was a turn-off.
▪ We are sleeping together and that is good, too.
well
▪ I've not been sleeping well since the house was ransacked, and it's made me very edgy.
▪ She looked as if she had slept well, and had a warm, desirable maiden freshness about her.
▪ And you're obviously not sleeping well.
▪ None of the Lundbergs slept well last night.
▪ But she's slept well today, thank goodness.
▪ I seem to have no emotional resilience these days because I am not sleeping well.
▪ Several babies cried, though Jane slept well.
▪ But I think perhaps you have had enough lessons for one night. Sleep well, my little friend.
■ NOUN
baby
▪ She drank it all in a day and the baby slept beautifully.
▪ Many of these bad habits are started in infancy when parents rock and sing their babies to sleep.
▪ They even develop their own tactics for lulling the babies to sleep.
▪ They promptly chucked her out of the bed and breakfast hotel and she and the baby are sleeping on a relative's floor.
▪ Lee-Cruz and the baby sleep on the bed below his.
▪ Fortunately she left the cot, so baby slept quite well.
▪ The baby was sleeping in a bassinet the boys allegedly tipped over.
back
▪ Smitty went to sleep in the back.
▪ She had rolled over in the night and was sleeping on her back with one arm flung above her head.
▪ I slept flat on my back, palms upthe position of terminal exhaustion.
▪ When night fell, he had slept in the back of the Capri, slept and dozed.
▪ Or, if sleeping on the back, with a pillow under the knees.
▪ They would soon go to sleep in the back of the car.
bed
▪ Do what is right in love and compassion and I will make his bed and you will sleep in peace.
▪ And nighttime, he is not sleep in regular bed.
▪ After my first spell of night duty I collapsed into bed and slept for nineteen hours.
▪ Everyone else sleeps regular bed, he sleeps in some kind of strange bed.
▪ Having a comfortable bed to sleep in is a luxury that most of us take for granted.
▪ We can not sleep on the bed, can not sleep on the pillow.
▪ She turned this way and that, imagining Catherine in her cot beside the bed in which Mike slept alone.
▪ I got up, rekindled the fire, and then went back to bed and slept until seven.
car
▪ I thought it unlikely that Xanthe would ever sleep in that car again, so strong was her present reaction.
▪ Five days after the shootings, Kirkpatrick was arrested while sleeping in a car in North Hollywood.
▪ Poor old Chris was sleeping in his car and living off bread and water when he found he'd won £250,000.
▪ He kept getting up and going to the window to look down on his sleeping car.
▪ But when he first arrived in Swindon he slept in a car park.
▪ Many slept in their cars or took refuge in evacuation centers in Lincoln and other towns north of Sacramento.
▪ I had to sleep in a car for two weeks.
▪ I sleep in a car in the lot.
child
▪ The residential children sleep and eat in these areas, using the plinths as beds.
▪ People before have stretched their necks towards them, like you, wonder-gazing children not able to sleep.
▪ The houses were small and some of the children were having to sleep three to a bed.
▪ At least at night, the child slept alone.
▪ Up to 30 men, women and children sleep here, depending upon how many men are home from the fighting.
▪ The women and children slept on these, between two and five to a bed.
day
▪ She wondered why they slept by day and travelled by night and decided to ask them when they woke up.
▪ After the first bout of verbiage I disappeared inside my room and slept for a day.
▪ He walked by night and slept by day, the midday sun being too hot for him.
▪ Now I wanted to sleep a whole day.
floor
▪ Her parents spent weeks sleeping on a hospital floor, while her sister, Caroline was being cared for by friends.
▪ They both slept on the floor on old gym mats.
▪ They sleep on the floor without mattress or bedcover.
▪ That was fine by him as long as I didn't mind sleeping on the floor.
▪ Only can sleep on the floor until two weeks.
▪ The sort of people who want Impreza Turbos are happy to sleep on the floor after parties.
▪ I would have slept on the floor but for fear of waking up face to face with a rat.
hours
▪ When she's happy she can sleep for hours in the same position.
▪ So they drive fast, sleeping a few hours a night, then move on to the next job and paycheck.
▪ He slept ten or twelve hours a day and didn't answer Maud when she telephoned.
▪ I slept for seven hours each night. 1 went to the gym every other day.
▪ After my first spell of night duty I collapsed into bed and slept for nineteen hours.
▪ In his pensione Sandison slept for two hours in the afternoon.
▪ I was sleeping fifteen, twenty hours a day.
morning
▪ I suppose I didn't sleep properly till morning.
▪ These kept her very snug and warm and she slept soundly until morning.
▪ Just time for a few hours sleep before the early morning call in the biggest beds you have ever seen.
▪ No doubt you are out there hacking away instead of sleeping in on Sunday morning.
▪ I slept late one Sunday morning with a painter I had met at the Welfare Department.
night
▪ In contrast with the night before, I slept scarcely at all.
▪ At night, when ya sleep, proteins from Angie build it up bigger, stronger, tougher.
▪ One night we did not sleep at all.
▪ The previous night, while sleeping, one woman even woke to find one attached to the inside of her mouth.
▪ At night, while he slept, his mind was still full of music.
▪ Some nights, we slept there.
▪ He walked by night and slept by day, the midday sun being too hot for him.
▪ That night we slept in the truck.
place
▪ A group of Diana monkeys fly through the top willowy branches in search of fruit and a place to sleep.
▪ All I lacked was a place to sleep and a bit of bread.
▪ As simple as lighting a fire or finding a dry place to sleep.
▪ Go find those boys from that helicopter and tell them to give you a place to sleep.
▪ Remember, all her life she had wandered from place to place, sleeping in a tent or under the stars.
▪ Nor did he pledge to provide every homeless person with a warm, clean place to sleep.
▪ Instead we wanted to find that other helicopter crew and get a place to sleep.
room
▪ I have known between three and four dozen boys and girls sleep in one room.
▪ When we got back to the boardinghouse, Frank seemed to assume that we would both sleep in his room.
▪ Antonia, you go and sleep in Leo's room.
▪ Yet her shift was twelve hours, she slept in the living room.
▪ My second uncle must have slept in this room.
▪ He thought about Peter Stillman and wondered if he had ever slept in the room he was in now.
▪ Paul Farrow slept in the same room when she fell, too drunk to notice.
▪ The family ate and slept in the room in back.
wink
▪ I could see he hadn't slept a wink all night.
▪ He didn't sleep a wink during the journey.
▪ I didn't sleep a wink.
▪ I did not sleep a wink last night for worrying about you and if you are alright.
▪ He wouldn't sleep a wink.
■ VERB
cry
▪ Katherine was on the bed, where she had cried herself to sleep.
▪ And poor Firecracker crying himself to sleep for days-weeks.
▪ D' you know that I cry myself to sleep every night?
▪ After everyone was gone for the night I cried myself to sleep.
▪ Several babies cried, though Jane slept well.
▪ She would cry herself to sleep at night.
▪ They cry themselves to sleep, he behind his wooden bars and she on the big sagging bed.
▪ I used to cry myself to sleep every night, hoping Mum wouldn't come in.
drift
▪ When he drifted off to sleep at last Henry's cheeks were quite pink with shame.
▪ He would drift off to sleep again, only to wake and look at the clock.
▪ Exhausted by the long words and the morning's adventure in the corridors he had soon drifted off to sleep.
▪ She stood stock still, hoping he would drift off to sleep once more without realising she was not there.
▪ After the ceremony she seemed to be serene and relaxed and to drift off to sleep.
▪ As she drifted off to sleep, a single tear rolled from her eye.
▪ He soon drifted off to sleep.
drop
▪ But tonight they were ready to drop, must sleep.
▪ Mrs Wright had dropped off to sleep again, making a kind of whistling noise through her mouth.
▪ Try having your last meal no later than 5 p. m. Working till I drop will help me sleep.
▪ I must have dropped off to sleep.
▪ Eventually we dropped off to sleep.
▪ The Marine Commandos looked exhausted, some of them appeared to be about to drop off to sleep on their feet.
▪ Probably to be considered all night, he thought bitterly, dropping off to sleep in his clothes.
get
▪ Therefore hot and cold showers, arguments, and exercise are not good preludes to helping you get to sleep.
▪ If I could keep them away from my face, I could get to sleep.
▪ I just want to go to bed and get to sleep.
▪ When does the guy who turns it on get to sleep?
▪ She'd never get to sleep like this.
▪ He was too sleepy to form specific questions and answers, and too tense to get to sleep.
▪ Laying her head on the pillow she closed her eyes and tried to get back to sleep.
▪ I got one sleeps on my pillow with his feet in my hair.
go
▪ He must have gone to sleep at last for the next thing he heard was his alarm clock.
▪ Oh, you did not go to sleep as directed, at eight?
▪ The man stepped back into the centre of the circle, and seemed almost to go to sleep.
▪ Keep me from going to sleep too soon.
▪ I want to go to sleep for a month.
▪ Billy Pilgrim went to sleep, woke up as a widower in his empty home in Ilium.
▪ I went to sleep at an all-night cinema once.
▪ Then she goes back to sleep while I go downstairs to face the psycho killer who broke in.
help
▪ Doesn't really help you sleep at night, eh?
▪ She woke out of that dream, and Wyatt rubbed her back to help her return to sleep.
▪ Walking will help you to sleep and is an antidote to stress, nervous tension and depression.
▪ No wonder the first doctor had given me something to help me sleep.
▪ Therefore hot and cold showers, arguments, and exercise are not good preludes to helping you get to sleep.
▪ He had said this was just to help me sleep.
▪ Will it help you sleep better or recover from a cold more quickly?
let
▪ Not now. Let me sleep.
▪ He will not let me sleep.
▪ He won't let them sleep over-another much-discussed shortcoming.
▪ He said simply, Please let me sleep but not dream.
▪ Remember how they whitewashed the pigsties before they'd let their men sleep there?
▪ If she wants to sleep in a pigsty, let her sleep there.
▪ The sun is well up over the water before they let each other sleep.
▪ That night they let me sleep between them.
lie
▪ When he lay down to sleep the peasants killed him and cut around his outline.
▪ We sat down; in the berth opposite the old man lay sleeping, the blankets drawn up to his chin.
▪ Beside the still waters of the Serpentine she lay down and slept.
▪ When at last he lay sleeping quietly, she summoned all her courage and lit the lamp.
▪ There was no one there and they lay down and slept. 17.
▪ Now all that was past, and my heart's desire lay here, sleeping in my arms.
▪ He obeyed the dream voice and then lay down to sleep again.
▪ But Emily lay beside him, sleeping peacefully.
lull
▪ They even develop their own tactics for lulling the babies to sleep.
▪ A terrible serpent guarded the Fleece, but she would lull it to sleep so that it would do them no harm.
▪ The sound of waves is the finest way to be lulled to sleep!
▪ She lulled him to sleep so that she might always find him and caress him as she pleased.
▪ Dzo bells lulled us to sleep and then woke us to a clear and sunny morning.
▪ You know, lulling you to sleep before springing into action.
▪ Back at Uncle's place, another televised hodgepodge of revolutionary memories lulled me to sleep.
▪ Not the gentle swaying to the tide that had lulled her to sleep last night but a definite purposeful movement.
put
▪ Her misgivings about what he was asking her to do had been put to sleep by his open face and little-boy smile.
▪ The shadow was flowing rhythmically, putting him to sleep.
▪ Seven animals have been put to sleep.
▪ During the first half of the 1980s, these cries actually put people to sleep.
▪ She had hoped to time her nightly visit to the nursery so that he was actually being put down to sleep.
▪ I could put myself to sleep fishing that stream in my head.
▪ Now I tend to find I need something else to put me to sleep.
▪ I put myself to sleep each night by imagining that I am in grave danger.
try
▪ I've been trying to sleep for the last half-hour, and I can't.
▪ I settled into my chair and tried to sleep.
▪ The least productive thing to do is to keep trying to go to sleep.
▪ On our perimeter, some grunts hid in their pup tents trying to sleep while others stared into the gray foliage watching.
▪ The music was turned down at the request of a fat man who was actually trying to sleep through all the noise.
▪ There was no point in trying to sleep.
▪ He puts a scarf around his head to try to sleep.
▪ He lay back down, tried to sleep.
want
▪ I want to go to sleep for a month.
▪ He knew he would gorge himself on curry and dal and then want to sleep.
▪ Evenings are their weakest time since they soon begin to feel fatigued and want to go to sleep relatively early.
▪ Ted suggests we might want to get to sleep.
▪ A heavy meal is far more likely to make you want to sleep - just think of Christmas!
▪ He wanted a drink, scotch, he wanted to sleep.
▪ Playing with a puppy for a period beforehand often helps to make it want to sleep at night.
▪ Now I wanted to sleep a whole day.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a good night's sleep
▪ All you need is a good night's sleep.
▪ Night before 1 Try to ensure a good night's sleep. 2 Alleviate any anxiety if possible.
disturbed sleep
▪ Conversely, disturbed sleep patterns can cause periods to become irregular or stop altogether.
▪ Sarah experiences more or less constant pain from a back problem, indigestion, and disturbed sleep.
▪ This may be associated with disturbed sleep and irritability and so the scratching may not be noticed.
light sleep/doze
▪ About two hours every night is spent in light sleep.
▪ Corbett fell into a light sleep and was awakened by Ranulf with the news that the ferrymaster had returned.
▪ I'd been in a light sleep.
▪ Stages 1 and 2 are stages of light sleep, just drifting off and being asleep but easily aroused.
▪ Then a sudden wave of exhaustion swept over her, and she slid into a light doze.
not get a wink of sleep/not sleep a wink
sleep deeply
▪ After three doses, she slept deeply, waking intermittently during the night only to urinate.
▪ He slept deeply and when he awoke he was refreshed.
▪ He slept deeply until around 9.30, when he arose, breakfasted, and took his children out for a walk.
▪ Lily at his side was sleeping deeply, breathing softly.
▪ Now and again he would reach a hand over to the boy but he slept deeply through the night.
▪ One man slept deeply, the other lightly and Aicha not at all.
▪ She felt numb and tired and surprised herself by managing to sleep deeply and well.
▪ Stephen settled on his back and slept deeply.
sleep heavily
▪ Exhausted by the horrors of that day, I slept heavily.
▪ He was still sleeping heavily, in almost the same position they'd left him in.
▪ They had all slept heavily, the sleep if not of the just, of the innocent and artless.
▪ When finally she slept, she slept heavily, dreamlessly.
sleep rough
▪ Hundreds of homeless people have to sleep rough every night in London.
▪ I was forced to sleep rough that night in a disused warehouse.
▪ The number of teenagers sleeping rough on the streets is on the increase.
▪ A chap who had slept rough for more than 20 years was invited to offer ideas on how it should be run.
▪ And he's often had to sleep rough.
▪ As a result we have seen a sharp fall in the numbers who sleep rough on our streets.
▪ How long he'd been sleeping rough no one could tell.
▪ Many people in neighbouring buildings were also hurt as were a number of beggars sleeping rough on the pavement.
▪ Now it's in urgent need of blankets to lend to those forced to sleep rough.
▪ Others are left to wander or sleep rough.
▪ She lost precious belongings in her days of sleeping rough.
sleeping/dining/buffet car
▪ Even on long journeys early trains had no corridors, lavatories, dining cars or heating.
▪ Every seat in the dining car filled up and still people were coming.
▪ He kept getting up and going to the window to look down on his sleeping car.
▪ I was watching the scene from the kitchen end of the dining car, standing just behind Emil, Cathy and Oliver.
▪ In the warm yellow light of the dining car windows I caught a glimpse of a woman raising a wine glass.
▪ Luxury for first class travellers: a sleeping car attendant delivers hot water bottles on the London-to-Inverness Express, January 1935.
▪ The buffet car was up ahead; there was a young woman buying a drink and some sandwiches.
▪ The dining car had oak woodwork, potted palms and sumptuous meals.
stupid with cold/sleep/shock etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Charlotte was sleeping and her mother didn't want to wake her.
▪ I'm so tired, I could sleep for a week.
▪ I didn't sleep very well last night, so I couldn't concentrate on the exam.
▪ I had slept only a few hours, but I had to get up early.
▪ I normally sleep on my back.
▪ If my snoring is that bad, I'll go down and sleep on the sofa.
▪ Is the baby sleeping all night now?
▪ You can rent a country cottage that sleeps six from as little as £300 a week.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But it was hardly like sleeping at all.
▪ Expect to pay $ 115 for a cabin that sleeps four during peak season.
▪ None of us slept very easily, I have to say.
▪ Poor old Chris was sleeping in his car and living off bread and water when he found he'd won £250,000.
▪ Smitty went to sleep in the back.
▪ What happens when we sleep or are unconscious?
II.nounCOLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
deep
▪ Eight hours of deep, dreamless sleep had helped enormously.
▪ Early in the cycle, when progesterone levels are low, women generally get less deep, restorative sleep.
▪ Then he became dopey and fell into a deep sleep that lasted for several hours.
▪ In the park he quickly fell into a deep sleep.
▪ Depth of sleep Many parents say that they think their child wets the bed because of being in such deep sleep.
▪ Instantly, she fell on the bed in the room and went into a deep sleep.
▪ Granny Weatherwax smacked her lips, like some one emerging from a very deep sleep.
▪ I was woken from a deep sleep by frantic shouts above.
dreamless
▪ She gently turned Omi's pillow to stop her mild snoring and then drifted off into her own dreamless sleep.
▪ Eight hours of deep, dreamless sleep had helped enormously.
▪ Wonderful dreamless sleep engulfed him every night.
▪ In the circle of Edward's arm she fell into a dreamless sleep.
▪ There are plans to make for tomorrow, but for now I want a dreamless sleep.
▪ Everything his heart needed, even dreamless sleep, she would be able to give him.
▪ After a while he dozed, and then slid into a dreamless sleep.
▪ He was still pondering on the problem when he drifted into a deep and dreamless sleep.
fitful
▪ It wasn't until dawn that she finally drifted off into an all too brief and fitful sleep.
▪ Thunder woke her out of a fitful sleep.
good
▪ Sing and try to have a good night's sleep.
▪ The Hilton booklet offers tips for getting better sleep.
▪ Too little exercise during the day and you will find it difficult to have a good night's sleep.
▪ Facing the truth about a misguided decision can cause senior managers to lose a good deal of sleep.
▪ And it helps you get a good night's sleep.
▪ Unfortunately, just practicing good sleep hygiene is not always enough to prevent insomnia.
▪ A good night's sleep leads to a reappraisal.
▪ Check if mattress and pillows need renewing - for better sleep and relief of aches and stiffness.
light
▪ Corbett fell into a light sleep and was awakened by Ranulf with the news that the ferrymaster had returned.
▪ About two hours every night is spent in light sleep.
▪ Stages 1 and 2 are stages of light sleep, just drifting off and being asleep but easily aroused.
▪ I'd been in a light sleep.
little
▪ The need for only little sleep.
▪ A little bit of sleep was the nearest thing to consolation left for people like us.
▪ There was very little sleep last night, our first hours ashore in Normandy, maybe tonight we could have some rest.
▪ Many slump into seats, some catching up on a little sleep before the day begins.
▪ She felt sleepy rather than tired, as a result, she told herself, of having had so little sleep of late.
▪ The little sleep we got last night was not enough.
▪ I suppose that at school, where I had so little sleep, this assertion was true.
▪ Too little regimen, too little sleep.
long
▪ This time it will be a long sleep, Cadfael.
▪ Awakening from a long sleep will be understood differently by the child depending on his age.
▪ When I woke up, I was on a train and feeling very uncomfortable after a long sleep.
▪ It was about this time that Dorothy woke from her long sleep and opened her eyes.
▪ Alcohol is a poor way of getting a long sleep as its diuretic effect wakes you because of a full bladder.
▪ He became slowly aware of his surroundings, like a man emerging from a long, drugged sleep.
▪ The document has reappeared after a long sleep in California, and is estimated at £150,000.
▪ The dragons, though few, are turning restless in their long sleep.
■ NOUN
beauty
▪ She started her new job on Monday and she said she needed her beauty sleep before tackling the front attic.
▪ A girl needed her beauty sleep.
▪ Playing Desert Storm on my Sega console had not only eroded my morals, it had disturbed my beauty sleep.
deprivation
▪ Many of the men were suffering from shell-shock, sleep deprivation and cold, he added.
▪ The rock-and-roll and sleep deprivation, the chair, even leaving me out in the corridor to hear the screams.
▪ The effects of sleep deprivation were therefore not simple.
▪ During a period of sleep deprivation the effects of sleeplessness may become cumulative.
▪ The effects of sleep deprivation appear to reduce mental and physical functioning.
▪ An individual who has been deprived of sleep is more difficult to arouse because sleep that follows sleep deprivation is very deep.
loss
▪ At 102 miles, she clings to third, reeling from her bad ankle and diarrhea and sleep loss.
▪ The biospherians experienced headaches, sleep loss, and fatigue.
▪ This evidence, again, is consistent with the lapse theory of sleep loss.
▪ Do they result from the body clock, from sleep loss - or from some mixture of these factors?
▪ Both fast and slow responses were slower after sleep loss.
▪ Neither a simple arousal model nor lapse theory is adequate on its own to explain the complex effects of sleep loss.
▪ This explanation of sleep loss effects in terms of lowered arousal is further supported by studies on selective attention.
▪ It does not necessarily follow that sleep loss would cause these symptoms in otherwise normal individuals.
pattern
▪ Normal sleep patterns at this stage have however been reported in a group with known severe brain abnormalities.
▪ The sleep patterns of chronic alcoholics are usually quite abnormal.
▪ Some women suffer from sleeplessness during the menopause and return to more regular sleep patterns later on.
▪ They often experience disrupted, fragmented sleep not unlike the sleep patterns of people in old age.
▪ Disturbed sleep patterns may also be one symptom of depression, which requires medical help.
▪ Babies born to women who did not abstain from drinking during pregnancy also tend to exhibit abnormal sleep patterns after birth.
▪ His sleep pattern might look something like that shown in fig. 2.2.
▪ Has experienced a change in one of the following: appetite, sleep patterns, concentration or energy levels? 3.
problem
▪ The perceived impact of the sleep problem fell considerably during the duration of the group.
▪ Homeopathic doctors agree that chronic sleep problems require constitutional, professional treatment.
▪ As his sleep problem developed, he could only manage two or three hours of sleep, frequently disturbed by vivid dreams.
▪ Even after chronic alcoholics give up booze, their sleep problems may not end.
▪ In these cases sleep problems can sometimes be temporarily treated with sleeping pills. 4.
▪ Once the transient sleep problem has passed, stop taking the sleeping pills.
▪ It has also been proven to combat anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and panic attacks.
stage
▪ Sleep and sleep stages Sleep is not a single process, as we know from our own experiences.
▪ It seems to have a minimal effect on sleep stages and therefore is thought to promote a more natural sleep.
■ VERB
catch
▪ Once they had settled when and where, he climbed back into bed, hoping to catch another hour of sleep.
▪ We were rescued by Truc who had again been trying to catch up on his sleep farther down the open carriage.
▪ Open the door, three steps forward, turn right, there he is, catch him in his sleep.
▪ We told him that you had been out all night and that you were catching up on some sleep.
▪ I can always catch up with my sleep later on this morning.
cry
▪ He remembered the night when Rose had cried out in her sleep - something about a child.
▪ Carol was dying, and he cried out in his sleep and sat up trembling with cold sweats in the heat.
▪ Life was suspended ... Once Damian cried out in his sleep, and fell silent again.
die
▪ Emily Carr died peacefully in her sleep in March of 1945.
▪ She remained serene and calm with no need for the pain medication until the next afternoon when she died in her sleep.
▪ He died in his sleep on 22 February 1986 and was buried in Wymondham.
▪ Mr Kelly, who had suffered strokes in 1994 and 1995, died in his sleep, his publicist said.
▪ She died in her sleep while dreaming that she was teaching geography, her mind quite lucid again.
▪ Buster died in his sleep a few days later.
▪ And to die in one's sleep without distress to oneself or inconvenience to others is an enviable end.
▪ But Lafferty enjoyed that wealth only a short time, dying in his sleep Nov. 4.
disturb
▪ A late crow said a word as her entry through the open drive gate disturbed his first sleep.
▪ Conversely, disturbed sleep patterns can cause periods to become irregular or stop altogether.
▪ For several nights afterwards nightmares of violence and death disturbed normally peaceful sleep.
▪ The Catskills peace and quiet deep Have been too much disturbed for sleep.
▪ Do not disturb this sleep unless there are other indications that the child is not sleeping a peaceful, healing sleep.
▪ A frequently cited study conducted in Los Angeles yielded some interesting results concerning noise and how it disturbs sleep.
▪ Afterward, he lay beside her, not moving, not wanting to disturb the deep sleep into which Nina usually drifted.
▪ Playing Desert Storm on my Sega console had not only eroded my morals, it had disturbed my beauty sleep.
drift
▪ Even if the man drifted close to sleep, which the stillness encouraged, the union remained unbroken.
▪ She had passed out there-or perhaps just lain down and drifted into sleep.
▪ Whenever he drifts toward sleep he feels close to distinguishing the words.
▪ As soon as she drifted into sleep, she was back in the Close, her gaze locked on the white huddled figure.
▪ Bobby must have drifted into sleep for he was wakened by a knock at the door.
▪ Tired after two performances that day, she began to drift between sleep and wakefulness.
▪ With the sedative, Marek drifted into sleep but he did not wake up.
fall
▪ Corbett fell into a light sleep and was awakened by Ranulf with the news that the ferrymaster had returned.
▪ As soon as the rhythmic motion of the cart began Willie fell into a disjointed sleep.
▪ Sethe felt herself falling into a sleep she knew would be deep.
▪ Then he became dopey and fell into a deep sleep that lasted for several hours.
▪ Immediately, however, a deadly languor took possession of her and she fell into a heavy sleep.
▪ In the circle of Edward's arm she fell into a dreamless sleep.
▪ More often I fell into uneasy sleep myself.
get
▪ Get enough exercise. Get enough rest and sleep.
▪ But most of the earlier crowd of four thousand had left to get some sleep.
▪ I suppose I got a bit of sleep last night.
▪ I answered that I thought we should all get some sleep.
▪ Then Sikes told Oliver to get some sleep as they would be going out again later that night.
▪ And a profitable one. Get some sleep, Bernie.
▪ She had to get some sleep.
▪ About 4 am things quietened down, and we went home to get a spot of sleep.
go
▪ Lying waiting for the family to go to sleep, she had begun to lose courage.
▪ Instantly, she fell on the bed in the room and went into a deep sleep.
▪ Think about it when you look into my eyes, and before you go to sleep.
▪ Each night, I went to bed praying that I would not let go in my own sleep.
▪ When Marguerite went to bed, Jenna went too, but sleep was far from her.
▪ She could go two days without sleep and was amused by the test she was undergoing.
▪ There he climbs into bed and goes to sleep.
▪ Have a meal on those roots and then go underground and sleep.
let
▪ He was sleepy now, he was resting. Let him have his sleep out.
▪ Negotiators decided to let du Pont sleep Saturday night undisturbed.
▪ Every word stops me turning away and closing my eyes, to block it out, to let me retreat into sleep.
▪ Karen felt herself in turmoil, felt the horrible excitement of the car attack would never let her sleep.
▪ Pins and needles can even hurt so much that we would almost prefer to let the leg sleep on.
▪ I kept that up until dawn, when the search party returned, Esmerelda-less, then I let myself go to sleep.
▪ She screamed when he wouldn't let her sleep with him.
▪ Since they wouldn't let her sleep, she drank tea.
lose
▪ He lost sleep, his mind churning, piling up imaginary complaints and magnifying them.
▪ Good, I hope you lose a lot more sleep.
▪ Not that Faldo will lose any sleep.
▪ And so I lose sleep over mute facts and frayed ends and missing witnesses.
▪ But not enough to lose sleep.
▪ Some experts believe that adrenaline provides the body with the extra boost it needs to make up for lost sleep.
▪ Voice over Pavarotti and friends won't be losing too much sleep over this lot.
▪ John Garner is losing sleep these nights, wondering what to do with his dwindling herd of cattle.
need
▪ He desperately needed sleep and a decent meal.
▪ After last night, after any of these nights lately, I was so physically exhausted, I really needed sleep!
▪ Periodically there are press reports of otherwise healthy individuals who need no sleep at all.
▪ Not much need for sleep, much less to spend any time with his family.
▪ If your tossing and turning is taking up needed sleep time, insomnia may be the culprit.
▪ Even the detail of needing a sleep in the afternoon.
▪ His family thinks he needs to get more sleep at night.
try
▪ Tea will be up shortly, and then I want you to try and get some sleep.
▪ I shut my eyes and try to go to sleep, but there's too much going on to sleep.
▪ The journey takes about eight-and-a-half hours. Try to get some sleep.
▪ The party's finally over for this man and the street can now try and get some sleep.
▪ Now, Piper, you try to get some sleep.
▪ I try to go to sleep again, but I ain't sleepy, and I get all fidgety.
▪ Closing her eyes, she tried to regain sleep that had never seemed more elusive.
▪ I'd been trying to go to sleep.
wake
▪ The media corps were not dressed much better as they tossed on whatever was nearest after being woken from a deep sleep.
▪ It was about this time that Dorothy woke from her long sleep and opened her eyes.
▪ The Gods are never so dangerous as when they wake from sleep.
▪ They also delay sleep onset, increase the chances of waking after sleep onset occurs, and decrease total sleep time.
▪ Katherine woke from restless sleep and groggily studied her whereabouts.
▪ I was woken from a deep sleep by frantic shouts above.
▪ Taczek leant back, slung his arms behind his head and stretched his chunky arms as if waking from a deep sleep.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a good night's sleep
▪ All you need is a good night's sleep.
▪ Night before 1 Try to ensure a good night's sleep. 2 Alleviate any anxiety if possible.
disturbed sleep
▪ Conversely, disturbed sleep patterns can cause periods to become irregular or stop altogether.
▪ Sarah experiences more or less constant pain from a back problem, indigestion, and disturbed sleep.
▪ This may be associated with disturbed sleep and irritability and so the scratching may not be noticed.
lapse into unconsciousness/silence/sleep etc
▪ But ultimately, words fail them and they lapse into silence.
▪ I would talk and laugh with my companions but withdraw, lapsing into silence, when I was offered any food.
▪ Soon after that she would lapse into sleep, then unconsciousness, then a state of deep coma.
▪ Without my prompting, Jack often lapsed into silence.
light sleep/doze
▪ About two hours every night is spent in light sleep.
▪ Corbett fell into a light sleep and was awakened by Ranulf with the news that the ferrymaster had returned.
▪ I'd been in a light sleep.
▪ Stages 1 and 2 are stages of light sleep, just drifting off and being asleep but easily aroused.
▪ Then a sudden wave of exhaustion swept over her, and she slid into a light doze.
not get a wink of sleep/not sleep a wink
sleep deeply
▪ After three doses, she slept deeply, waking intermittently during the night only to urinate.
▪ He slept deeply and when he awoke he was refreshed.
▪ He slept deeply until around 9.30, when he arose, breakfasted, and took his children out for a walk.
▪ Lily at his side was sleeping deeply, breathing softly.
▪ Now and again he would reach a hand over to the boy but he slept deeply through the night.
▪ One man slept deeply, the other lightly and Aicha not at all.
▪ She felt numb and tired and surprised herself by managing to sleep deeply and well.
▪ Stephen settled on his back and slept deeply.
sleep heavily
▪ Exhausted by the horrors of that day, I slept heavily.
▪ He was still sleeping heavily, in almost the same position they'd left him in.
▪ They had all slept heavily, the sleep if not of the just, of the innocent and artless.
▪ When finally she slept, she slept heavily, dreamlessly.
sleep rough
▪ Hundreds of homeless people have to sleep rough every night in London.
▪ I was forced to sleep rough that night in a disused warehouse.
▪ The number of teenagers sleeping rough on the streets is on the increase.
▪ A chap who had slept rough for more than 20 years was invited to offer ideas on how it should be run.
▪ And he's often had to sleep rough.
▪ As a result we have seen a sharp fall in the numbers who sleep rough on our streets.
▪ How long he'd been sleeping rough no one could tell.
▪ Many people in neighbouring buildings were also hurt as were a number of beggars sleeping rough on the pavement.
▪ Now it's in urgent need of blankets to lend to those forced to sleep rough.
▪ Others are left to wander or sleep rough.
▪ She lost precious belongings in her days of sleeping rough.
stupid with cold/sleep/shock etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A sudden noise on the street woke Eileen from a deep sleep.
▪ Depression can be caused simply by a lack of sleep.
▪ Eight hours' sleep a night is enough for most people.
▪ Grandad died peacefully in his sleep.
▪ I don't suppose you got much sleep last night.
▪ Katie sometimes talks in her sleep.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A lot of mineralization is needed to create a sedative effect, calm the nerves and promote sound sleep.
▪ Depending on the amount of sleep you get every night, you can experience anywhere from four to six sleep cycles.
▪ Easy, do it in my sleep.
▪ He had already dropped into the depths of sleep.
▪ Her sleep had been very disturbed.
▪ Lumberjack sprawled on the tiles at her feet, whining softly in his sleep like a damp log on a fire.
▪ Mike came up on Wednesday night after virtually no sleep since leaving my house on Monday at 3.30 am.