Around midnight, I fell asleep, but I had to keep getting up to pee.

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It was always charging around the gaff, or asleep, beside its mat at the back door.

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After a long silence, just when I suspected he had fallen asleep, Taleb spoke again.

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He has basically fallen asleep in his scallops, a dot of sour cream on his tie.

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How many legal malpractice claims were filed against those over-employed, bloated, asleep-at-the-wheel lap dogs?

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In the thin air, the kids promptly fell asleep and Marji fumbled with her movie camera.

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When he looks in she's asleep, still in her bathrobe, wrapped in an afghan.

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At the end of the meal, at the table next to them, Daddy is asleep.

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And then, hours later, when Constance had finally fallen asleep, the phone woke her.

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Consumer tech innovation is not asleep: it has moved to software in the cloud.

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By the time he came in to remove the needles, I was almost asleep.

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He even tickles him underneath his pants all the while their wives are asleep, figuratively.

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As he entered the town, he saw a man asleep beside some flowerpots containing plastic flowers.

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