Now it appears that instead of waking up, the Department of Buildings hit the snooze button.
One morning, instead of waking up with a wet blanket underneath me, I woke up with a dark cloud above.
Instead of waking her husband, she tried the window catches, then went around checking the other rooms of the flat.
It took Emily two seconds to decide to call Ian instead of waking either of the others; as usual, he took the call, albeit unhappily.
Finally "poured" into a limousine, he arrived home at 5 a.m. and scaled the security fence instead of waking his guard.
So instead of waking up to a blank morning of non-news, today we were yanked into consciousness by a host of voices all vying for our attention.
The boat sails at night too, so instead of waking up to a muddy campsite you're at some beach in the Bahamas".
Instead of waking up Monday to a frenzy of conjecture about the future of Coach Tom Coughlin (or his assistants), the Giants will rise to the glow of a division championship.
"But the most important thing is that my daughter and son will be able to do their homework under these lights instead of waking up at 5am to study using sunlight".
Chris and Kathleen had overslept, and instead of waking at 10 a.m., as they typically do on Sundays — in time for "The Chris Matthews Show" — they woke at 10 30 (and Russert!), and then Chris had to run off to this photo thing he had forgotten about.
