drift to sleep
nod to sleep
go off to sleep

He turned over on his side and drifted to sleep.

Then she closed her eyes and began to drift to sleep.

That was much less comfortable than drifting to sleep had been.

I took his advice, closed my eyes and drifted to sleep.

At some point, maybe just before dawn, I drifted to sleep.

She began to drift to sleep, exhausted by all that had come between them.

They would drift to sleep like that, quiet and content.

She had almost drifted to sleep when a knock fell on the door.

We've all been there - you're too wired to drift to sleep.

He wanted to drift to sleep and fought the impulse.

It seemed he had only just drifted to sleep when someone shook him awake.

Claudia's confessions were on my mind as I drifted to sleep.

And just before she drifted to sleep, a long ago memory snagged her attention.

Comforted by the sound of his voice, she took it on faith, and drifted to sleep again.

Afterward, she lay silent in his arms as he drifted to sleep.

His head lolled back on the sofa and he drifted to sleep.

Then she was silent, and they drifted to sleep.

He watched as she drifted to sleep in the airtight compartment.

Lynn recalled how he drifted to sleep with Janet on top of him.

He finally drifted to sleep thinking of What his mother had described as the greatest crime a human being can commit.

I lay there waiting, half drifted to sleep again when the answering machine picked up.

Although Will was restless; he soon drifted to sleep.

He's the last person hundreds of thousands of women think about before they drift to sleep.

He sat beside her till she drifted to sleep.

He thought that it was late, very late when they lay together and started to drift to sleep.

Blessed are those drowsy ones: for they shall soon nod to sleep.

And many families simply return to the emergency assistance unit, where they nod to sleep under the glare of fluorescent lights and start the process all over again.

I didn't know how long the drug would last, but I saw people here and there sink down to the ground, and nod to sleep; others melted silently back to the darkness of the huts, and after a time, we were almost alone.

The second is if the child goes off to sleep.

Then she goes off to sleep as though nothing has happened.

When we looked back at Judy she seemed to have gone off to sleep.

The seated man seemed to be about to go off to sleep again.

But she thought it must be the cat, and soon went off to sleep again.

Usually he gives her a reassuring number, and then she goes off to sleep.

Or earlier, if it looks like they are going off to sleep."

But he went off to sleep the instant we landed.

"He went off to sleep just like an angel," Happy said as she walked back into the room.

"Can she suck that while she's going off to sleep?"

And some of them had gone off to sleep.

They each felt extremely sleepy, and went off to sleep quite suddenly.

I'll probably go off to sleep again when I've had that."

Tom slipped into the girls' room to make sure they were awake, and not going off to sleep again.

Chuck went off to sleep, and she fixed herself some breakfast.

And then he went off to sleep, just like that.'

He could smell Emma, and went off to sleep happy that she was nearby.

It's that comfortable it's actually going off to sleep here!

The strain of watching would be too much, and he would go off to sleep.

It wasn't long before he went off to sleep.

If she were comfortable she might go off to sleep without even knowing it.

They went off to sleep in the open.

He went off to sleep very soon after.

We all went off to sleep pretty quickly.