Example sentences of "that lie [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They will , of course , have to set new technical justifications for this task , and the obvious one that lies to hand is the ‘ intent to create legal relations . ’ |
| 2 | This dual usage makes them seem to fill the limbo-land that lies between rhythm and lead approaches , and therefore an ability to play them fluently is a more-or-less essential guitar skill . |
| 3 | It was low and cracked to begin with , then it rose up the scale , eerily , and shook out its top notes across the damp , half-lit glade until I really did think that my father had come not from the hospital but from some horribly , cold , empty region that lies in wait for us instead of all the heavens we have dreamed up to make things bearable . |
| 4 | Then , ‘ The light that lies in woman 's eyes has been my heart 's undoing ’ . ’ |
| 5 | Basic training and a posting to a Regiment lay ahead , all of it an unknown quantity , and my enthusiasm was so manifest because everything that lay in front of me was so foreign . |
| 6 | Watching him , teasing him , tickling him in the place he liked between his front legs , Nails idled the afternoon away , pushing out of his mind the horrors that lay in wait : the busybody care people poking their noses in , the job he had no fat chance of getting when he was out of school on his ear , no more riding at Biddy 's , no nothing at all , not even any certainty of keeping in touch with batty Firelight and her pushy baby . |
| 7 | Carnivores can be divided into those that lay in wait as opposed to actively hunting for their prey . |
| 8 | This , however was a mere pin-prick compared to the actions that lay in store . |
| 9 | Earlier writers had given hints of the rewards that lay in store for those who followed this intellectual path . |
| 10 | But that was before she 'd known the traumas that lay in store for her . |