Sentence examples for fallen asleep over from inspiring English sources

It's as if Stoppard, a former drama critic who left school at seventeen, had fallen asleep over his books and dreamed up a new kind of autodidactic burlesque.

You are in an Alpine-themed restaurant in the 70s where the fondue sets wait empty on the tables and the waiter is so bored he seems to have fallen asleep over the timbered half-door.

October 25 2012 January 20 201313 In Christopher Durang's new play, splendidly directed by Nicholas Martin, it's as if the playwright had fallen asleep over the works of Anton Chekhov and woken up to find that the plots and tropes of Chekhov's iconic lost souls had migrated from the vastness of Russia to the bucolic tidiness of a Bucks County farmhouse.

It's as if he had fallen asleep over the works of Anton Chekhov and woken up to find that the plots and tropes of the playwright's iconic lost souls had migrated from the vastness of Russia to the bucolic tidiness of a Bucks County, Pennsylvania, farmhouse.

Watching "A Free Man of Color," you feel as if Guare had fallen asleep over his books and dreamed his own journey into the unknown — a terra incognita of excitement and weirdness, the familiar and the confounding, which, like all vivid dreams, is as exhausting as it is stimulating.

One investor even fell asleep over his apple tart.

He put her in a bin bag and fell asleep over the catalogue 20 minutes later.

I tend to buy guidebooks in a desperate last-minute rush to the bookstore, and then fall asleep over them during the flight.

More than once, Martin – nicknamed "Coldplay" at the Treasury, a nod to his namesake in that band – fell asleep over dinner with friends.

The night of the New York opening, Mankiewicz came back to the office drunk, started panning Mrs. Insull's performance, and then fell asleep over his typewriter.

It would take me hours to fall asleep over an Origin match so wound up was I. It's a wonder my dad didn't throw a bucket of water over me to calm me down.