During the students' viewing, more than half of the students dozed off, started chatting, or played games on their cell phones.
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Much to our surprise, during the students' viewing more than half of the students dozed off, started chatting, or played games on their cell phones.
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He will quite likely suffer from insomnia, sleeping for short periods, dozing fitfully and perhaps lying awake through the early hours of the morning.
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He ignored briefing books and dozed while the intricacies of military strategy were presented to him.
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The restless teenager to the right of the fortune-teller's tent, the dozing matron by the trestle tables, compete with onstage action for perceptual prominence.
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As the narrator dozes fitfully, the angel is gradually reduced from armed angel to "warrior", to "unarmed man", as parts of its form fall to the ground.
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Just before dozing off on an air mattress beneath a nylon tent amid the stench of decaying refuse they may reflect vaguely on the curious unevenness of their blessings.
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She left one out as both she and the baby dozed; or she placed the baby on the table and lifted a breast to its mouth.
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At this point, youdozeoff on the pillow, detached from any thoughts as if you were in a dream world.
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I know that he dozed off at one point.
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Perhaps they are only dozing and waiting for other events to happen.
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There are, of course, many who have never dozed.
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He is not refreshed, dozes fitfully through the day, and by night he cannot get to sleep.
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He lies at night, dozing, just watching her in case she suffers an attack.
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Here we have that podium of artisan houses round the great central pieces going by acres, bull-dozing down.
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