bedside• She looked at her watch on her bedsidetable and noted it was eight-thirty.• The doctor sat by his bedside.• Stephen waited and then put out his bedside light.• They fell with a thud upon his bedsidechair.• She pointed to the mustard-colored plas-tic pitcher on the stainless-steel table by the bedside.• William took her emptyglass and put it with his on the bedside table.
bedside lamp/table/cabinet etc• Now she keeps it in her bedside table, treasuring the heavydarkgreencloth, the fineembroidery of the badges.• She looked at her watch on her bedside table and noted it was eight-thirty.• Polly went to her bedside table and took up the little alarmtube.• The shrill notes of the telephone, on Anna's bedside table, shocked them awake.• Proving very popular are the new serpentinebedside cabinets in real satinwood handpainted with classicalmotifs, at about £600.• She closed the door behind him, put her rape alarm back on the bedside table, and there they were.• He threw her off, and started to reach towards the lamp on the bedside table.• Not daring to put on the light, she sat up and felt for the glass of water on the bedside table.
VERB + BEDSIDE | BEDSIDE + NOUN | PREPOSITIONVERB + BEDSIDE➤be called to, be summoned to被叫到牀邊◇The doctor was summoned to his bedside.醫生被叫到他的牀邊。➤stay at, stay by待在牀邊▸➤leave離開牀邊◇His wife never left his bedside.他妻子從未離開過他的牀邊。BEDSIDE + NOUN➤cabinet, lamp, light, table (especially BrE) 牀頭櫃;牀頭燈PREPOSITION➤at sb's/the bedside, by sb's/the bedside在某人牀邊◇I like to keep a glass of water by my bedside.我喜歡在牀邊放一杯水。