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"While I'm eating spaghetti or asleep, the book is still busy," is how he describes it.

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She says she was rushed to A&E but the staff member who was meant to be looking after her fell asleep in the waiting room for several hours.

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It’s not rare for “Bob’s Burgers” to be described as a “comfort show” — something fans can turn on to unwind or fall asleep to.

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Mohammed Hajjaj, whose relatives were among the dead, told the AFP news agency that the site was hit by "heavy bombing" while people were asleep.

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"I could fall onto my bed asleep having been drunk - but then the alarm would go, I'd get up, pull myself together, and I would go to work," she says.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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