| I woke up this morning straight from a bad dream, a nightmare, if you will. |
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| Audrey woke with a start but quickly remembered where she was and why she was there. |
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| I slowly woke up, a sharp hiss escaping me at how I ached, how everything hurt. |
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| I woke in the morning to find the fire reduced to a thin trail of smoke, drifting lazily into the blue sky. |
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| I woke up in the afternoon from the night before and instead of having anything to eat, I had a can of soft drink and a line of charlie. |
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| He woke the next morning with a hangover like a gunshot wound and the discovery that his hair and eyebrows had been shaved off. |
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| By the time she woke up, she had shaving cream on part of her face, a marker moustache, and a very unhappy expression on her face. |
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| On Monday morning, Edmontonians woke up to find no streetcars or taxis operating, city hall closed and police and fire patrols limited. |
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| I woke up to the sounds of rolling thunder banging on my eardrums like some heavy metal band. |
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| When I woke the next morning, it was with a pounding headache and a slight tremble in my limbs. |
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| Pearl woke up with sunrise the next morning in a dark, musty cell in the bilge of the large ship. |
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| Unconscious for three days from shock and loss of blood, he woke to find himself back in Texas at the burns centre. |
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| Two years ago I woke up on a day so sunny and gorgeous, it was nothing short of surreal. |
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| He stirred, and gently woke Raquel, who stretched luxuriously over him and smiled stupidly up at his face. |
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| He was a lighter sleeper when more people were around, apparently, and woke up while I was walking by. |
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| Then, I decided to put some mixed birdseed into the shoebox, just in case the bird woke up while it was waiting to be treated down at the vet. |
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| He woke them up with a shout for attention that made the amplifiers screech and whine. |
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| Upon entering Hannah's house, we woke up everyone by tromping around in the kitchen. |
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| I woke up just as the Indians were attacking an advancing troop of soldiers that had come onto their land. |
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| But last Monday he woke to find his sight had miraculously returned, and he has been on cloud nine ever since. |
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| I woke up to discover I am covered with mosquito bites from head to toe, from sleeping with at D's house with the windows open. |
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| As more and more woke up, a rising chorus of shrieks for help shook hoarfrost from the vaulted stones, and eventually called help. |
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| The first time it had happened, Peter was sound asleep until the shrill sound of shrieking woke him up with a start. |
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| Caleb woke up with a great big yawn, his carmine tongue flicking over the roof of his mouth. |
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| She woke to a blissfully comfortable state, smothered in a cocoon of feathery soft blankets. |
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| On Tuesday morning, Clara woke up at seven am and had a lukewarm shower to wake her up a bit. |
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| Reliably, however, she woke up each time it was time to change sides on the tape. |
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| At eight o'clock, I woke her and turned the heat down and the lights off and locked the trailer. |
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| It was the day of her wedding and she had been shaking like a blancmange since the moment she woke up. |
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| The district woke up to a thick blanket of snow this morning as the country's cold entered its most bitter phase. |
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| Of all the things I did not expect to be a factor in my morning commute, I woke to the thickest blanket of fog ever. |
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| As I woke up, my whole body was sore and stiff from all the pain and the prolonged exposure to the rough surface of the rooftop. |
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| He woke to a rap on the door and a flood of sunlight that caused his forehead to twinge in pain. |
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| I woke up to the dim light of an oil lamp casting shadows across my face, a heavy blanket draped across me. |
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| The pounding on the door sounded like a bomb had exploded and Nikolas woke with a start. |
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| Debbie was still asleep so I decided to try and go back to sleep until she woke up. |
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| I woke up with a start as someone shook my shoulders lightly, whispering my name in my ear. |
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| One day they woke him up early at prison, beat him severely, blindfolded him and took him away in a car. |
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| By Wednesday morning most of the region woke up to Christmas card scenes with several inches of snow. |
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| I woke up on Tuesday morning after a few hours fitful sleep and went back to the hospital. |
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| On the morning of the 12 th, the climbers woke to the sound of bullets peppering the rock around their portaledge camp, 1,000 feet up. |
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| Today, I woke up sneezy, as though a cold is coming on, or perhaps allergies. |
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| The sharp, piercing wail of the alarm shattered her dream and woke her abruptly from her sleep. |
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| The noise of his feet on the cobbles woke the dogs of the town, who barked as if they meant to break their chains. |
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| He blew as hard as he could and both of the sentries woke up in alarm and climbed out of their tents. |
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| When I woke up an hour later the rain had stopped, it was a glorious sunny day and mist was rising off the lake. |
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| So it's a bit odd that I woke up today with a desire to spend the afternoon in a movie theater. |
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| A little voice in her head woke her up this is not how you're going to start the New Year is it? |
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| He said that by the time people woke up to what was being planned the time for consultation had passed. |
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| Ajit woke up sweating and looked out of his window into the starless, black midnight sky. |
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| The dirty deal was done before anyone at the Hungarian FA woke up to what was going on. |
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| Joseph woke to the sound of a horn bellowing a wake-up call in the distance. |
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| The next morning, Darren woke up to the sunlight that came in the undraped windows. |
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| Belinda was surprised to find that she had managed to drop off when a mid-morning wake-up call woke her. |
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| They carried us in their wombs for nine months, woke at unearthly hours to tend to our screams. |
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| He set the alarm for 5 a.m. the next day and woke up at what for his household was an unearthly hour. |
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| When I'd finished the work, I crawled to my bed and slept like a log and then woke up ready for work again. |
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| I tried to sleep, but the echo of the musket fire woke me from my light slumber and pierced my heart with panic. |
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| It is about time we woke up and took note of what is happening in our world. |
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| The county woke on both Saturday and Sunday to frozen cars and icy roads but walkers still took to the hills and families to their sledges. |
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| The mall woke early and was all abustle before the first leave party hit the decks. |
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| The morning came and Elizabeth woke to the bright sun shining it's warmth on her face. |
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| The next morning Britt woke me up and told me she had already finished my packing since I had everything already laid out for it. |
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| After three, maybe four hours of sleep I woke with a start from some unremembered dream. |
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| He woke up with a start and realized that he had heard a quiet noise outside his door. |
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| I had a nightmare last night, probably more than one as I know I woke up feeling totally unrested. |
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| The roar of a sharp, white speedboat woke him as it skipped across the waves, out past the children bobbing in inflatable rubber rings. |
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| An hour later I woke from a vivid dream with my heart pounding away fit to bust. |
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| We woke to find him challenging his own reflection, baring his big teeth and snarling between barks. |
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| The slightest sound, even a sneeze or the creaking of her basket woke her up. |
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| We woke to the merry sound of oyster-catchers and curlews busily nesting in the marshes and tried to trace the haunting drum of snipe in flight. |
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| That way, when they woke up and saw that their sign was gone, they'd know that the Jesus freaks across the lake did it. |
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| It woke me up to what's happening, and how easily lives can be snuffed out. |
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| When the first birds woke I pretended to sleep, wrapped tightly, wind and animals snuffling outside. |
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| He woke his younger sister and brother and got them and their mum out of the house before rousing the next door neighbours. |
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| I woke up ready to face the day without feeling as if I'd been socked over the head. |
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| Erik woke slowly, but when he realized he hadn't heard anything about Kallie, he bolted upright, causing him to get a little lightheaded. |
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| A few northern mountains woke up to new snow thanks to some upsloping mountain snow showers during the overnight. |
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| On Monday morning at 5.30 Susanne woke me to tell me that her waters had broken. |
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| The day after at 6.15 am I woke to go to the toilet, I felt a pop and it turned out to be my waters breaking. |
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| Residents on a York housing estate woke up to a scene of destruction after thieves broke into a string of vehicles in a private car park. |
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| In the garden there was a weathervane on top of a flagpole that indicated the wind direction to my father every morning when he woke up. |
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| The sudden unexpected sound of the alarm clock woke Meg up and caused her to fall off her bed. |
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| This morning, as I was taking Franklin to daycare, I was struck with the fact that I had been holding my pee since I woke up. |
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| It was a little girl, by the sound of it, but before he could go after her, he woke up with a shudder. |
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| Anyway, I woke out of a sound sleep on Sunday morning with an extremely vivid dream. |
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| He woke up with his heart racing at 200 beats a minute and was rushed to hospital. |
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| The very first night I was sound asleep and I woke to the sound of my dad laughing. |
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| The next morning, we woke up with tremendous hangovers to a breakfast of Vienna sausages, salt-free borsht, and diet chocolate fudge soda. |
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| My diaphragm and lungs spasmed so severely that I woke up screaming because the pain was unbelievably excruciating! |
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| I woke up and there were crows outside my window, making a racket and causing the other birds to yell back at them. |
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| However, what happened was the cat decided to be an alarm clock for me and woke me up at my usual time asking for food. |
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| I woke to hear my alarm clock shrilling at me and after shutting it off I went to have a shower and put some make up on. |
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| I woke up to my alarm clock buzzing in my ear, it took me a few minutes to realize where I was. |
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| When they woke after midday, they would eat and talk quietly together, waiting for the friendly cover of night to fall before moving on. |
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| When I woke up the dog was barking and jumping up and down in front of the window. |
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| It was hot when I woke but not so much that I couldn't enjoy a brief stroll around the garden, admiring the flowers in the sunshine. |
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| I think it was this weekend when I woke up to discover that my futon was actually damp, wet through from my sweating into it during the night. |
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| He once sneaked into the woman's home while she was sleeping, only fleeing when she woke up. |
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| She was just slipping into the realm of sleep when a slight rustling woke her. |
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| The alarm clock woke me up with an ear piercing ring and a few ascending beeps. |
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| My baby woke us up every morning with the precious jingle from his silver rattle and I will always cherish that sound. |
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| The next morning I woke up to my alarm clock, excited to see what my hair looked like. |
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| Youngest DS woke up last night screaming and stayed awake again for about three hours. |
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| I went to bed really early last night to catch up on sleep, so I woke up feeling as fresh as a daisy for once. |
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| But then I woke up at 7am and whoosh, the tidal wave that is my to-do list flooded my thoughts and blind panic swept over me once again. |
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| They woke her with their boisterous noise and lack of consideration for her indisposition. |
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| I woke up this morning with a knot of excitement and anticipation nestling comfortably in my stomach. |
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| Mick woke up, got washed and shaved and put his working clothes on thinking it was 7.30 am Monday morning. |
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| But given that my air con was broken and the room was an oven, when I woke at 6am after maybe 3.5 hours sleep I could not fall back to sleep. |
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| We woke to a fearsomely frosty morning, the roads slick with ice, so I postponed my scheduled trip to Boston until lunch time, almost. |
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| My alarm clock woke me up at eight, so I had time to take a shower and wake up quietly. |
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| I woke up Sunday morning to a light covering of snow over a thin layer of ice. |
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| Went to bed before midnight last night, fell asleep relatively quickly and woke up this morning feeling as knackered as I have all week. |
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| The sound of a knock at the door woke him from his reverie, and he walked quickly downstairs. |
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| We just woke up to take down our large jib and hoisted a smaller staysail in its place. |
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| One afternoon as I woke up from a nap, I looked at the watch, laced my shoes in a hurry and ran to the bus-stop. |
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| It's where he woke up every morning as a young lad to the smells and noises from the brewery and the railway line. |
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| I always remember the one year I woke my mum up at some ungodly hour and was convinced I heard reindeers on the roof. |
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| Harrieth woke up and rubbed the sleep dust from her eyes, she yawned deeply, throwing her arms out to the side. |
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| Amy woke up while the world was still dark, and only a thin line of grey along the horizon indicated the coming of dawn. |
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| He woke me up yesterday morning with gentle purring as he padded across my duvet, then rolled on his back to have his tummy tickled. |
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| When I woke up in the morning the next day, I realised I had missed something important on my handphone. |
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| Devan woke up later that night and rolled to her side, feeling completely and utterly worthless. |
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| The old buffers suddenly woke up to the carpet-baggers' plans to sell off the assets and called a meeting. |
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| Apparently when I woke up yesterday morning, I turned my alarm clock off rather than just resetting it. |
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| She woke up in excruciating pain when she rolled over and was bitten by the false widow on the back of the left hand. |
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| And when I woke up today, I found a lot of the despair and anguish I had been feeling lately had left me. |
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| The team talk at half time woke up Kendal and they opened the scoring within the first 20 seconds of the restart. |
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| No, for he woke upside down, restrained by a seatbelt connected to a seat in a certain upturned Toyota Avensis. |
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| Time had dragged obscenely slowly since he woke up almost a week earlier in the French army hospital. |
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| I woke up briefly, but I was so tired, and he was wrecked, so we both crashed, I think. |
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| I woke to the rain pouring onto my body from where I slept and I was dragged into a situation by which there was no shelter around me. |
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| When I woke up yesterday morning, my Inbox was flooded with news alerts from Karbala, Iskandariyah and Babil. |
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| I promptly fell back to sleep and woke up way too late, grabbed my clothes, legged it down the road and got a bus to Earls Court station. |
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| In the morning when I woke up I found Mark retching the contents of his stomach up outside the tent. |
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| Until recently, I would without fail drink a big glass of lemon juice and hot water every morning when I woke up. |
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| Gina woke up to the notes of a trumpet sounding reveille breaking the dewy morning silence. |
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| I woke up feeling really refreshed, and then people just kept interrogating me all through the day. |
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| Remembering the reason why she woke up, Alex glanced at the bed and was met with fierce ice blue. |
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| After several midnight loo dashes we woke up on Tuesday morning feeling not too clever. |
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| If I woke up some morning and said it was not for me, I'd have an absolutely clear conscience. |
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| Emily woke up and flinched when she heard the loud clatter from the kitchen. |
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| Then black smoke and heat coiled around him in a thick, suffocating cloud until he choked and woke to the world. |
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| He passed out and woke up later in the recovery room, his wrists tied with gauze to the bed and gagging from the tube in his throat. |
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| The pain did not hurt him, rather it woke him up from a trancelike state of hopelessness. |
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| She called the police, woke her husband and the couple then watched as Townsend tried to lever open the door. |
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| On Tuesday last Galway woke up to see all the motor vehicles covered with a light coating of brown sand. |
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| When they rang early on Sunday morning and broke the news to my Mum she howled like a banshee which woke me up. |
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| When I woke it was much later than I had expected, and everything's been double-time and hurry-up since then. |
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| The tinkling of the platinum against the marble flagstones woke her from her daze and she scrambled to her feet and hurried after him. |
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| Which was about five minutes later, and I had nearly fallen asleep when the loud ring woke me up. |
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| The silence is deafening, and the ringing that woke me resounds in my ears. |
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| I was so tired that I slept through everything, and woke up late in the afternoon, refreshed, if not a little hung-over. |
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| The alarm woke me at 6.30 the next morning, but the sound of heavy rain on the van roof persuaded me to switch it off and go back to sleep. |
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| They woke early in the morning when the sun had not risen above the mountains, and the moon was still visible. |
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| When Della woke up, she would be furious they had made any contact that didn't appertain to their job. |
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| One night halfway through the first year, he woke me up at half two in the morning, stoned and visibly shaken. |
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| He woke up every day anxious to get to work, roll up his sleeves and fight for American farmers and their cooperatives. |
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| In the Glasgow of my childhood I woke to a symphony of glass, metal and steam. |
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| Ebony woke to see the morning sun light just coming through the small round window. |
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| The next morning I woke to sun shining on my face and a soft breeze ruffling the curtains. |
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| Brayden woke with a crick in his neck, his arm asleep and the blankets too warm about him. |
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| The next morning, she woke up to the ominous rumbling of thunder in the distance. |
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| At 7am, he woke to the sound of heavy footsteps as the England players gathered for their morning run. |
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| He lounged around as the other students slaved away over homework and woke up early to attend classes. |
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| I felt lousy last night and woke up this morning with a head and backache, crampy and an upset stomach. |
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| Local residents told protestors how they woke to find smoke from the blaze swirling through their homes. |
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| If you woke freezing in the morning, realising you needed a bag of coal and a loaf of white bread, you were out of luck. |
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| In fact, he said if you woke up, I was to sing you a lullaby to get you back to sleep if I had to. |
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| Telli woke the next morning to the patter of rain on the roof above his attic room. |
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| Hours later, the howling of wolves, augmented by the valley and echoing off the steep, timbered slopes, woke me from a dreamless sleep. |
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| The next day, when I woke up in the san covered in sick, I knew the school was finished with me, and I was with it. |
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| The next morning, Fiona woke up thinking about her magical evening at the prom with Dom. |
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| He woke up to the sound of Birdsong and the faintest sound of tapping on a keyboard about two rooms away. |
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| During the dream, I felt awed by how powerful the plot of my film was, but when I woke up I could not remember anything about it. |
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| The Boy and I were supposed to visit him this afternoon but I woke up sick and had to stay home, and now I feel awful for not going to see him. |
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| I woke up, got dressed, curled my hair with gel and hairspray, got on my bus, got off and went to breakfast. |
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| Last night, in the full moon, I heard a wolf howl, and this morning I woke up to a dead bear next to my side. |
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| I woke up early and put on a pair of pants with a loose black shirt and sauntered into the lounge room. |
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| There was a dead silence on the court for a few moments before Flynn's roar woke the officials up. |
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| The next morning Edana woke up to the sounds of rain sprinkling on the pond outside her window. |
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| When she woke up, the sun was setting in the western horizon, in back of the plane. |
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| Kat woke up with a start, the images from the previous night's dreams still vivid in her mind. |
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| She woke up in the middle of the night in a sweat, though it wasn't at all warm in her room. |
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| Rex woke up to the strong aroma of coffee and smelled the sweet scent of fried bacon and eggs. |
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| The noise woke Graham up, and he sat bolt upright from where he had been pillowing his head on his arms on the side of the bed. |
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| Last night I woke up around 4am with this horrible stabby feeling deep down in my left ear. |
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| They challenged the malestream, and eventually like a slumbering giant unused to back talk it woke up and took notice. |
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| He always woke up abominably early and never failed to take a shower before going back to bed. |
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| I managed to get to sleep about eight o'clock this morning, woke at eleven-thirty, and still didn't know what day it was. |
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| A species of bacterium locked in Alaskan permafrost for 32,000 years woke up and started swimming as soon as its medium melted. |
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| By the time he woke up it was dark, upon checking his watch, Brae saw that it was already past eight o'clock. |
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| Luckily they woke up when the window shattered, so the burglars got away empty handed. |
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| Adam woke up the next morning with a blinding headache and the feeling that it was going to be a scorcher of a day. |
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| Eventually got to bed in the small hours and woke up this morning with a mare of a hangover. |
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| Angie woke up to dried tears in her eyes and her face marked by the carpet since she remained there all night without moving to her actual bed. |
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| Brittney and I woke up to the sound of scraping and movement against the house. |
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| So on the morning of the big day I woke up bright and early after suffering a horrible night. |
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| I was asleep one night in Hollywood and woke up one morning with my notepad full of scribble and I read it. |
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| For the most part, the triage nurse surmised, people would be too drunk to notice they were injured, until they woke the next day doubly injured. |
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| Sammy woke up to the pale sunlight that peeked through the light yellow window curtains. |
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| The district woke up to a thick blanket of snow this morning as the winter entered its most bitter phase. |
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| His mates woke him with seconds to spare, and he dressed somewhat hurriedly. |
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| I woke up in the hospital at three in the morning and I could see the second hand on the clock wasn't moving. |
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| Four hours later I woke up, my eyes fluttering open, the sheets around me damp with sweat. |
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| I woke up this morning white as a sheet after one of the greatest footballing nights of my life. |
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| Taking her time to wash and splash some cold water on her face, Angela slowly woke up more. |
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| The demon took control of the chimp, the chimp crashed the car, all the occupants died horribly, and then I woke up. |
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| The next morning, Alexis woke early and was instantly thrown into confusion at the presence of the blanket. |
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| He woke at 7am, perspiring profusely and with the same headache as the night before, only thumpingly worse. |
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| I woke up and it was blowing a force four, SE gale with waves about 16 inches high, blue skies and a chill in the air. |
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| I woke up, and after a moment realized that I wasn't tied up, and that I was moving. |
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| I woke up the next day to the faint smell of lilacs and the sweet melodic sound of Alna humming a song in the shower. |
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| Brandy lent Tabbi one of the semi-automatics, just in case the man woke up and he wasn't on their side. |
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| They both did every time they woke up next to each other, aware of what they had done in spite of how drunk they had been. |
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| They woke up with water in their homes and their cars overwhelmed with water. |
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| I woke up without oversleeping, and got into work with no rush AND having enough time to walk to the farther stop to catch the bus in. |
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| And they all stepped aside and there he was and I said thank god and I woke up sweating and cold, even with bedsocks on. |
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| By the time I hobbled the horses and returned to the fire Elza had woke and found breakfast. |
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| A couple who live only a quarter of a mile from the blast site woke up believing the area had been hit by an earthquake. |
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| The great serpent woke at once, squealing so loudly that the mountains shook. |
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| This was just a few years after Lord Byron woke to find Child Harold's Pilgrimage in the bookshops and himself famous, as it were, overnight. |
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| With our later discovery of bel canto opera we suddenly woke up to what we had missed. |
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| I was forced to look at a couple of things overnight, and woke up thinking, of course. |
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| Kai woke up, he tried moving but something was pinning him on the table that he had slept on, he looked to his right and on his arm was the beautiful Mina. |
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| For the first time since I put my acceptance letter in the mail, I woke up this morning ashamed of my alma mater. |
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| When she came to, she alleges that she woke up in his bed and Cosby had his shirt off. |
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| But she woke up earlier than expected, so she's already recovering fast. |
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| The thought woke me up to re-examine what I had taken for granted. |
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| Residents across county Carlow woke yesterday morning to find roads completely impassable, as drifting snow wreaked havoc on routes across the region. |
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| I woke up late and grabbed a cup of coffee in a rundown luncheonette. |
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| When I woke up, Facebook and Twitter were ablaze with patriotism. |
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| I woke at dawn to the sun winking through the window of my room. |
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| This woke her husband, who questioned and tried to console her, to no avail. |
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| I woke up my two children who were sleeping at the time and went outside. |
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| It's one of the two puzzling questions that I woke up to this morning. |
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| Wednesday morning, I woke up at 4am with a knot in my stomach. |
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| I woke up at five am with a right-sided headache that throbbed. |
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| I had a pain in my leg, thought nothing of it, took some aspirin, went to bed, woke up about an hour and a half later with my heart racing at about 250 beats a minute. |
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| But when she woke up at four in the morning with contractions, it became clear very quickly there would be no time for a mad dash across west Wiltshire. |
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| I woke to find Graham out in the garden carrying out some much needed maintenance on the fish pond, topping it up with fresh water and pulling out some weed. |
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| It only took me a couple of seconds to get my bearings after I woke up. |
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| First the stupid heater developed a rattle at about 4am and woke me up. |
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| I slept well, and woke with a ravenous appetite for breakfast, as usual. |
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| When it kicked at night and woke her, Emma spread her fingertips over the foreign swell that was her own body and imagined the baby spoke to her in a secret, atonal humming. |
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| Well, I woke up well before the alarm went off at 6am this morning. |
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| I meant to go up an Aiguille yesterday morning, but when I woke at 2 AM the clouds were low down on the hills, fresh snow and everything unsuitable to climbing. |
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| Although no one could figure out where exactly he disappeared to under cover of the darkness, the neighbourhood woke up in alarm at midnight to find Pehlad's house on fire. |
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| I gently woke my neighbor and listened myself with a concentration not usual for me when attending chamber concerts with late Classical or early Romantic repertoire. |
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| I woke up from my sleep well rested and a little better tempered. |
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| The one who wears baggy jeans and sweatshirts everyday, the one who always looks like she just woke up, the one who slouches, pouts and drags her feet when she walks. |
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| I woke with a start as I hit the floor, knocking into the legs of a table. |
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| She woke early to her Palm PC singing a reveille bugle call. |
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| I woke the next morning to the sound of reveille feeling very sore. |
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| I woke up with less of a headache than I head yesterday, which is good. |
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| One measly year later, Pam woke to find a naked Ewing grinning at her in the shower. |
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| Yesterday was revoltingly hot and I woke with lower abdominal pain. |
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| I woke to the sun glaring in my face, the bright light blinding me. |
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| I woke rather refreshed with the sun glaring brightly in my eyes. |
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| Back then in Leicester I just woke up one morning and felt terrible, and it was only after several days of feeling like death warmed up that I finally went to a doctor. |
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| I woke again with a pounding headache and my ears were ringing. |
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| The ringing of the phone woke her up, and she sat up suddenly. |
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| It didn't seem like a very big deal at the time, and in fact I had all but forgotten about it until I woke up this morning with a pronounced limp. |
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| The next morning, she woke up to the crowing of roosters at dawn, but barely lifted a hand or batted an eye to get up, returning to the lulling delight of slumber. |
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| Another time, I woke to my older brothers talking in low tones. |
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| Greg Smith woke up one morning this month, covered from head to toe in icky, slimy Vampire-Squid ink. |
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| On a cool December evening in 2011, an Egyptian housewife woke up screaming in her bed. |
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| The forced teleport had knocked Carrie right out, as it had the first time it had happened to her, and she woke up to find herself alone in the throne room. |
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| My eyes were woozy as I woke up, and I saw these spindly, veiny legs in slippers and a nightgown. |
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| When Matt woke up the next morning, it was just before eight o'clock. |
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| Sarah woke to the sound of her mother screaming at her again. |
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| It was Motherless Brooklyn, Lethem's fifth novel in as many years, that finally landed him back in the old neighborhood, with a bang that woke the literary world. |
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| Indeed, it was as if investors collectively woke up and realized they had been giving the company an insanely rich valuation. |
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| Dice woke groggily and rolled over, throwing one arm over to the side. |
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| Another incident, in January, involved a kenyan man, Paul Mutora, who woke up in the morgue 15 hours after being pronounced dead. |
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| I woke to the jolting sound of hoof beats, thundering down a dirt path. |
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| He had dark spiky brown hair that made it look like he just woke up every time you saw him and his deep hazel eyes filled with anger and hate, but a tint of heart. |
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| My friend, her boyfriend, and I woke up to find a wild, empty beach where we sunbathed, swam naked, and laughed all day. |
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| I woke up the next morning with my answering machine beeping happily. |
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| I woke up when he was about to join me, at which point one host was setting an alarm clock for two hours later and the other host was playing music rather loudly. |
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| I woke up around 8 Friday morning and decided to get up and get moving. |
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| Yes, the team with the most-bloated payroll in hockey and, by comparison to its peers, in nearly any sport, woke up in midwinter and realized its approach wasn't working. |
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| Likewise you knew when you woke up today that it was Monday and that you'd better get up sharpish because you were expected back at work this morning. |
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| Italians, who were internationally scolded for slowness in preparing for the millennium bug, woke up sleepily on the first morning of 2000 to find life working as usual. |
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| I woke up with a splitting headache, unaware of my surroundings. |
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| After one such night of merriment, I woke up at a station completely unfamiliar to me. |
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| It woke minny and Aibileen up to the fact that they were risking their lives writing this book. |
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| She woke the next morning to the shrill of the telephone ringing. |
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| Whatever the reason, we went out like lights the moment our heads touched our pillows and woke only when we heard the clatter of coffee cups outside our room. |
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| It was from this odd dream that Jane woke to a spectre moving about in her room, the form of a hideous and monstrous woman emerging from her very own closet. |
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| Mrs Barnes gave a tug at the lead that was wrapped around her wrist and the sleeping terrier at the other end of it woke with a start and gave her a baleful look. |
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| The next thing I knew an alarm was going off and I woke with a start. |
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| The morning after I took my first dose, I woke up with a strange headache. |
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| We woke up early in the morning and checked out of the hotel. |
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| The next day we woke up around 12 and checked out of our hotel. |
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| I guess the mosquito net wasn't wrapped tight enough in my case, since something woke me in the middle of the night, biting my hand as I groped for my torch. |
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| I woke up when I heard the mournful cry of a harpooned whale. |
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| The storm blew itself out in the small hours, woke up for a grumble or two a little after first light, and has stayed quiet for the most part since. |
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| It was a little after six o'clock in the evening when I woke from my nap. |
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