Some were dressed; others were in theirnightclothes.
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On either side of the screen were shelves stocked with the new soft-to-touchnightclothesand stockings.
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A bedwetting child probably costs a family more than £1,000 a year in extra washing, bedding,nightclothesand disposable nappies.
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In many cases these accidents would not have happened if skirts andnightclotheshad been flame resistant.
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Cut off from the lifeboat by the flames, the passengers, dressed only in theirnightclothes, were forced to seek refuge in the icy river.
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As she was a known user of sleeping pills, they hypothesized that she had fallen unconscious while smoking and set fire to hernightclothes.
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