Example sentences of "that lie in [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the fellows told the King in September 1687 , " the Electing the Bishop of Oxford " was " directly contrary to their statutes , and to their positive oaths " , and although " they were as ready to obey the K. in all things that lay in their power " , they " could not apprehend it in their power to obey him in this matter " . |
| 2 | For a moment he seemed almost not to see the bright silver circle that lay in her palm . |
| 3 | Without thinking , she had promised to give any help that lay in her power . |
| 4 | Anticipating this difficulty for their new employee , the oil company installed an incinerator loo which , at the press of a button , was triggered into fiery life as six flame-throwing nozzles squirting blazing diesel in all directions enveloping and consuming all that lay in its path . |
| 5 | The monastic continuator of the Croyland Chronicle wrote of the same events in hysterical terms ; the northern army moved south like a swarm of locusts , ravaging all that lay in its path . |