Example sentences of "[was/were] lie in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | My hand shook , spilling my hot milk all down my flannelette frills , and before long they were lying in a heap at my feet . |
| 2 | My envelopes for posting were lying in a heap on the counter . |
| 3 | Several strange-looking animals were lying in a field , and some were sitting in a tree . |
| 4 | The baby was lying in a cradle of osiers , crooning to itself like a wood-pigeon . |
| 5 | How strange it was , when you thought about it , that she was lying in a bed with this particular man . |
| 6 | Olazabal maintained his ball was lying in a depression caused by a chair leg but got no sympathy . |
| 7 | ‘ He told our reporter , ’ ’ read Albert laboriously , ‘ ‘ that he was lying in a wolter of blood . ’ |
| 8 | when he awoke , he was lying in a stone circle and his arms were black and blue with the marks of fairy fingers . |
| 9 | He had picked up one that was lying in a gutter with a burnt-out fuse . |
| 10 | Another time I was lying in a hospital bed after a car crash — I 'd been lucky and escaped with minor injuries , but I 've always had a keen sense of drama , so I lay there feeling as though I 'd just come through the Battle of Britain . |
| 11 | They fell silent for a moment , all of them wondering if she was shopping for the son who was lying in a dissecting trench at the Medico-Legal Institute . |
| 12 | Briefly she wondered whether he 'd already drunk himself into oblivion and was lying in a paralytic stupor on the hearthrug while saucepans boiled dry on the stove and vegetables burned to a crisp . |
| 13 | Her heart went out to Antoinette Gebrec , as yet happily ignorant of the fate of her son , and to Philippe Bonard , whose long-cherished dream had turned to a nightmare , while the man they both loved was lying in a broken , bloody heap at the foot of the cliff . |
| 14 | The next she knew she was lying in a room with one of the students from Usher standing by her bed . |
| 15 | She woke up some hours later and everything was clean and white and she was clean and was lying in a fresh cotton garment between stiff sheets . |
| 16 | When she came to she was lying in a strange bed in a strange room , and she sat bolt upright , gripped by panic . |
| 17 | ( He says : We looked through his frontwqindow and he was lying in a pool of blood . |
| 18 | She was lying in a freezing ditch , still with her pet dog , four days after she left home to take it for a walk . |
| 19 | The car was badly damaged and one man was lying in a ditch . |