Sleep : snooze-40.4












[2 : Somebody ----s ]



NP (Sleeper) V () PP[in] (Place)
NP (Sleeper) V () PP[on] (Place) PP[in] (Time)
NP (Sleeper) V () PP[in] (Time)
NP (Sleeper) V () NP (Duration)
NP (Sleeper) V () PP[for] (Duration)
NP (Sleeper) V () Sub (Duration)
NP (Sleeper) V () AVP (Manner)
NP (Sleeper) V () AVP (Place)
NP (Sleeper) V () PPing[before] (Duration) PP[at] (Time)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Sleeper) V ()
NP (Agent) V () NP (Theme)


Examples from WordNet


She naps everyday after lunch for an hour



Examples from VerbNet


Gloria slept the sleep of the dead.
Gloria snoozed.



Examples from SemCor


They were sleeping, of_course, but they thought they were doing him a favor by pretending.
`` Now I lay me down to sleep, The gray-backs o' er my body creep; If they should bite before I wake, I pray the Lord their jaws to break''``.
We have n't slept together since we started.
And he would sleep, sleep, and never think_of roads and horses' sore haunches, of colonial wars.
Both had been up since 7: 00- Irv on the early watch, McFeeley unable to sleep during his four hour relief.
Currently, marina is used to indicate a municipal or commercially operated facility where a pleasure_boat may dock and find some or all_of the following available: gasoline, fresh water, electricity, telephone_service, ice, repair facilities, restaurants, sleeping accommodations, a general_store, and a grocery_store.
He said:`` If it 's all_right with you, Mr._Morgan, I 'll sleep out here on the couch.
It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.
Part of the family should be sleeping while the rest is awake.
Or, in the words of Anatole_France,`` The law in its majestic equality must forbid the rich, as_well as the poor, from begging in the streets and sleeping under bridges''.
Occasionally he fell into a waking, gritty-eyed stupor; but he never slept.
Oso slept unconcernedly, his rifle cradled in his arms; I did n't catch_a_wink.
Rilly or Glendora had entered her room while she slept, bringing back her washed clothes.
Top_dog, sleeping and eating right there with the Staff.
Mantle and Cerv use the twin_beds in the bedroom; Maris sleeps on a green studio_couch in the living_room.
They would sleep while the Gabriel 's drive would increase the acceleration to a point which the unfrozen bodies of the personnel could not have endured.
The woman had the glassy look of an invalid, as if she had not slept at_all.
There was no reason to leave the comfortable quarters inside the ship, except that, faced with a possibility of sleeping on solid_ground, they simply had_to get_out.
Underneath the big one, in the silent moonlight, lay a dead pigeon, and on the smaller bell, the Clemence, two gray and white birds slept huddled_together in the cold winter air.
The cemetery slumbered just behind it, and the way lay through the village and close_to the sea.
The daybed Eugene had slept in, made_up now with its dark-brown velours cover and pillows.
He was beginning to see he was too mad to sleep.
The apex, the study where Eugene slept, was light and bright and airy and cheerful.
He was dozing, perhaps the only sleep he 'd gotten.
Actually, they said, he did sleep, but so shortly and fitfully that he forgot.
He ate what he felt_like, slept as much or as little as he pleased, and moved about the draughty rooms of the house, when he was not in bed, with slow dubious steps, like an elderly tourist in a cathedral.
You 'll sleep longer and better, too, awake refreshed and free_of hot_weather nerves.
Yet he knew the others were sleeping more soundly, now that they had renewed their contact with the_matter that had them to send them riding high vacuum.
He had sent the dispatches downtown to the proper people and had slept.
He preferred sleeping in bed with his head on a pillow.
Since he could n't sleep anyway, he might as_well stand their watches for them or write their reports.
Youngsters can sleep or amuse themselves safely in the large cabin which has 5- foot 11- inch headroom, bunks for three, galley and marine toilet.
A man knocked the roulette_ball about idly in its track, and another dozed at one of the card_tables.
He always slept close_to the wall so you had to lean to reach him.
He no_longer had_to lie in his bunk all night, his eyes closed, pretending to sleep.
Frederick_Seward said his father was sleeping, and then went through a pantomime at his father 's door, to prove the statement.
But Michael_Sept had unmasked him, revealing he had never been a bishop, but was an Anabaptist, afraid to state his faith, because he knew John_Calvin had written a book against their belief that the soul slept after death.
He slept in the hall bedroom at the head of the stairs.
Fortunately, the embarrassing questions raised by objects do not need to be answered, or we would all have_to go sleep in the open fields.
The street that is full now of traffic and parked cars then and for many years drowsed on an August afternoon in the shade of the curbside trees, and silence was a weight, almost palpable, in the air.
He watched the girl until she had gone_into the trees, and waited until he could hear the sound of her horse any longer, then went_up to where the children were sleeping.
I just can n't take any chances on getting her pregnant, and if we were sleeping together&&&''.
They slept- Mynheer with a marvelously high-pitched snoring, the damn seahorse ivory teeth watching him from a bedside table.
Ekstrohm never slept.
You 'd better sleep''.
So choosing a good tree, he clambered up into it, found a comfortable notch, and in it to sleep, like the tousled bear he was, with his hands across his chest, as though with honey.
Brittany, that stone-gray mystery through which he traveled for thirty days, sleeping in the barns of farmers or alongside roads, had worked some subtle change in him, he knew, and it was in Brittany that he had met Pierre.
Pam realized, to her surprise, that she had been almost dozing.
But in bed he had trouble sleeping.
`` Sleep well''? he asked.
Oso slept unconcernedly, his rifle cradled in his arms; I did n't catch_a_wink.
Then, having wrapped the lot in an afghan my dog customarily slept on, you lammed out the front_door, considerately leaving it open for neighbors to discover.
David_Cortlandt, having slept away a day and a night, came awake in a plank farmhouse on the Harlem_River near Spuyten_Duyvil.
They begged Grandma to let them put a bed in the kitchen for her, but Grandma said she was getting too old to sleep in strange beds and be seen with her teeth out, and that she hoped to die in privacy like a Christian and if the Lord willed it to be of pneumonia than it would have to be that way.
Others admitted he was absolutely correct- he never slept.
It looked as Gavin had first seen it years ago, on those nights when he slept alone by his campfire and waked suddenly to the hoot of an owl or the rustle of a blade of grass in the moon 's wind- a savage land, untenanted and brooding, too strong to be broken by the will of men.