Example sentences of "[verb] lain [adj] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The little man had appeared shocked at the very idea that Alfred might be suspected of killing his brother yet he had gone on , with a certain relish , to provide a convincing motive — if a motive which has lain dormant for thirty years is still convincing . |
| 2 | When Huw reappeared , having lain low for several days , his scars and bruises were beginning to fade and nothing more was said on either side . |
| 3 | ‘ I doubt if Aldhelm would have lain helpless for more than a quarter of an hour from that blow on the head . |
| 4 | Joan too had heard the current gossip and had lain awake for much of the previous night , persuading herself it was a fabrication and that she must give no heed to wagging tongues . |
| 5 | Turkey has an excuse for its ignorance : the objects , it says , were looted from tombs where they had lain undisturbed for 2,500 years . |
| 6 | Within a few months , seeds — which had lain dormant for many years — germinated . |
| 7 | The first intimations that the forces which had lain dormant for two centuries would soon be unleashed came in the late 1870s , when frequent minor earthquakes began to shake the areas round the Sunda Straits . |
| 8 | On June 9 Mount Pinatubo , a 1,460-metre volcano which had lain dormant for 600 years , began to erupt . |
| 9 | They had lain dormant for some years after she had left the cottage , but he knew now they had simply been growing in the warm darkness of his being where love bred … |
| 10 | It was whilst working my way through this , often writing in the column headings for several pages in advance to give myself the illusion that I had completed more than I actually had , that two important suspicions that had lain dormant for some time rose up and took on the aspect of horribly credible hypotheses . |