After a long silence, just when I suspected he had fallen asleep, Taleb spoke again.

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One admitted he had fallen asleep during part of the 1 hour 52 minute film.

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She said she believed he had fallen asleep and left him on a rug by his bed.

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The player just laid there, arms and legs outstretched, as if he had fallen asleep in the midst of making snow angels.

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He returned to the Bills with a noticeably sun-burnt face, sheepishly explaining he had fallen asleep on the beach after working out at his home in Miami.

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When he had finished speaking, he saw that the psychiatrist and the skirted woman had fallen asleep on their chairs.

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Booth had submitted that he might have fallen asleep due to a sleep disorder, rather than tiredness, before the crash.

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Hours after a 1996 accident in which four children were killed in a Dodge Neon, the mother told authorities that her husband had fallen asleep at the wheel, and when he tried to regain control the car rolled over.

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The 35-year-old mother was at home, her six-week-old daughter had just fallen asleep and her husband called to say he was running late and couldn't pick up their dog from the day-care center.

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He had already tasted all the delights of life: he had eaten, drunk, breathed, inspected the locality, felt pleasure, played a bit, and fallen asleep.

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