The clock on her bedside table said half past four.bedsidebed‧side /ˈbedsaɪd/ noun [countable usually singular] 
the area beside your bed – used especially when talking about someone who is ill in bedat somebody’s bedside Relatives have been at his bedside all week.bedside lamp/table/cabinet etc The clock on her bedside table said half past four.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- The doctor sat by his bedside.
- She looked at her watch on her bedside table and noted it was eight-thirty.
- She pointed to the mustard-colored plas-tic pitcher on the stainless-steel table by the bedside.
- Stephen waited and then put out his bedside light.
- They fell with a thud upon his bedside chair.
- William took her empty glass and put it with his on the bedside table.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY The clock on her bedside table said half past four.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
The clock on her bedside table said half past four. British English (=a small cupboard beside a bed)
· He read by the light of the bedside lamp.
· They were chatting around the kitchen table.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN· Proving very popular are the new serpentine bedside cabinets in real satinwood handpainted with classical motifs, at about £600.· The bedside cabinet held a bottle of aspirin; they might help.· He slammed the milk bottle down on top of the bedside cabinet, pulling the drawer open.· For an instant, his gaze had shifted to the bedside cabinet, where their whisky glasses stood beneath the lamp.· She had bumped her arm on the little bedside cabinet.· Slipping off her ring, she put it on the bedside cabinet with an inward sigh.· Harry propped himself up on one elbow and pulled open the top drawer of the bedside cabinet.· Cadogan cherrywood bedside cabinet, with bronzed effect handles.
· She glanced at the bedside clock.· Peering at the little bedside clock, she groaned.· After a long time she looked at her bedside clock and saw that it was past midnight.· Each was given a bedside clock as a prize-winner - just to make sure they get off to school on time!· Apart from her own breathing, the ticking of the bedside clock was the only sound.· Pushing the hair from his face he looked at the bedside clock.· His sleep-crammed eyes clambered across to the bedside clock and widened when they read it was five fifteen in the morning.
· And while Mr Stevens's bride was keeping a round-the-clock at his hospital bedside, burglars ransacked their home.· Blonde Sue was one of the first people at his hospital bedside in Manchester Royal Infirmary.· Mr Ashraf's family have been at his hospital bedside for much of the day.· Last night Clare's parents were at her hospital bedside as she recovered after an operation on her horrific wounds.
· She turned off the bedside lamp, and then she lay there, not moving.· Sliding between the bedcovers, she flicked off the bedside lamp and snuggled down into the enveloping warmth.· There was an overhead light with no lampshade and a bedside lamp on the floor which didn't work.· Switching off the bedside lamp, he leapt into position behind the slowly opening door.· Lighting consisted of a 40-watt bulb in the ceiling and a bedside lamp with another 40-watt bulb.· She switched on the bedside lamp and looked dazedly at the clock.· He reached her side and his hand moved to her bedside lamp.· He does not bother to turn on the bedside lamp.
· Stephen waited and then put out his bedside light.· They stayed downstairs talking, and it was nearly midnight before Maltravers turned off his bedside light.· Dressing tables, bedside lights, linen and towels available, vacuum cleaner, iron and ironing board.· Harry put on the bedside light and saw the glass of milk, the two biscuits.· A bedside light should be placed so the light source is above your head but not shining directly on to your eyes.· He got into bed beside her and turned off his bedside light.· Groping for the bedside light, she knocked her alarm clock off the table.· Zaria snuffled and turned on her back as I put the bedside light on.
· Putting on my best bedside manner, I went to the cheerful locals.· He's very conscientious, it's just he doesn't have much of a bedside manner.· His bedside manner was, in a word, menacing.
· He put a thousand-franc note on his bedside table and told the porter to let Modigliani in whenever he wanted.· Liz tiptoed to switch on the lamp on the bedside table.· The shrill notes of the telephone, on Anna's bedside table, shocked them awake.· Not daring to put on the light, she sat up and felt for the glass of water on the bedside table.· Mungo remembered seeing her teeth in a glass on the bedside table.· She sighed, and turned to pick up the clock on the bedside table.· He threw her off, and started to reach towards the lamp on the bedside table.· Turning awkwardly towards the bedside table, she picked up a glass of water and sipped the warm liquid gratefully.
VERB· She knew few other details and left my bedside to gossip with the other nurses in the hallway.
· I now sat by her bedside and worked out ratios.· If she was lying down, he sat at her bedside and talked to her.· He had spent his grief in the day and night he had sat at her bedside.· His daughter Amanda sat at his bedside in stiff, pout-lipped profile, reading some piece of religious mumbo-jumbo.· The result of weeks of clandestine planning sat now inside the bedside cupboard.· Two people sat at her bedside in the little cubicle contained by the screens.· Gabriel sat by his bedside, uncertain if she wished him to live or die.· Jacob had sat by her bedside and cried.
· She switched on the bedside lamp and looked dazedly at the clock.· With that thought, once Peter had left she switched out the bedside lamp and burrowed down.· She'd forgotten her strange feelings of the night before until she switched off the bedside lamp.
· She turned off the bedside lamp, and then she lay there, not moving.· He does not bother to turn on the bedside lamp.· We turn our bedside lamps on.
the area beside your bed – used especially when talking about someone who is ill in bedat somebody’s bedside Relatives have been at his bedside all week.bedside lamp/table/cabinet etc The clock on her bedside table said half past four.- foundling
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