Example sentences of "lying on his [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Johnny was there , lying on his back under the boughs of the apple tree . |
| 2 | One was lying on his back on the stretcher and appeared to be badly wounded . |
| 3 | Toby was lying on his back on the bed , smoking . |
| 4 | Even as she was spluttering , Estelle straddled the older officer who was lying on his back on the floor . |
| 5 | Fergus had been knocked backwards by the Lad 's spring ; he was lying on his back on the littered table , and the Lad was crouching over him , his eyes enormous , his face intent . |
| 6 | He was lying on his back with the sheet round his waist , one arm flung up over his head , and she could see bruises all down the underside of his arm and down his ribs . |
| 7 | I shouted goodbye and soon followed at my own pace , leaving the sacred hitching post of the sun in the custody of two girls , a man lying on his back in the grass , the gaseosa-selling woman and a tethered goat . |
| 8 | Stark was lying on his back in the motel room , his shirt open to reveal the bullet wound close to his navel . |
| 9 | I says , what on earth 's that , I says , there 's something in that ditch , and I went back and I looked and here 's Old Bob lying on his back in the ditch and the water running round each side of his head . |
| 10 | He pounded this strange , blood-stained visitor to his stable , now lying on his back in the straw beneath him . |