Jesse Helms , R-North Carolina, got out of a sick bed to appear with Elizabeth Dole.

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He left his sick bed to travel to the Commons in June to support the government in the narrow vote on the 42-day detention bill.

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So Russian folk-wisdom advises, and so Boris Yeltsin has been doing in the days since he rose from his sick bed to resume a semblance of work.

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Watching from his sick bed.

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But without it, it is hard to imagine the patient ever rising from the sick-bed.

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Welsh Liberal Democrat leader Kirsty Williams said she had met constituents with complaints about the NHS, including patients having to change their own bed sheets after being sick.

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He made a point of explaining his uncharacteristic absence from the scene until five days after the crash, saying he had been sick and confined to a hospital bed for 11 days.

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But one night she was sick and I told her to stay in bed while I went to comfort the boy.

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So sick he couldn't walk, Benton lay in his hospital bed bitter and resentful.

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In Madrid, they both got sick, and ended up watching the first season of the show in bed.

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One person in the office gets sick and it is not long before half the workforce has taken to their bed.

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Too sick to drive himself home, so the job people called the apartment, got me right out of bed.

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