Example sentences of "[pron] lie in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone lying in the gloom of a lower bunk was reading a book . |
| 2 | As I lie in a ditch during the short rest and watch Jake the Algerian move along the road just ahead of me exclaiming ‘ A la attack ’ , a voice from somewhere along the road shouts , ‘ Oh , piss off ’ . |
| 3 | I lie in the metal box hoping to hear the elephant passing or the lions roaring , but I only hear a distant hyena against the myriad squeaks and screeches of the night . |
| 4 | I lie in the meadow , or I kiss your child |
| 5 | I lay in a chair , weak and convalescent , while Mr Hobbs poured tea and waited on us both . |
| 6 | The scream woke me , and I lay in a cold sweat with a voice in my head saying , " Hidden , but here forever . " |
| 7 | As I lay in the ditch I was suddenly conscious of a very strong indescribably sickly smell . |
| 8 | I lay in the cacophonous darkness thinking about magic . |
| 9 | — I remember , & never shall forget , my father 's face as he looked upon me while I lay in the servant 's arms — so calm , and the tears stealing down his face : for I was the child of his old age . |
| 10 | I lay in the bed beside him and stared at the ceiling . |
| 11 | I lay in the chair , waiting . |
| 12 | I lay in the bath daydreaming of putters that never missed and that were made of priceless and perfect metals unknown to man , of millions of pounds won on the fairways of the world , and of even more millions made off the course . |
| 13 | I lay in the bath and shaved luxuriously . |
| 14 | I lay in the refuge of our old room in the Palace Hotel . |
| 15 | We walked here through the gardens and the woods , past the hill where Andy and I lay in the sunlight all those summers ago , into the little glen , then up through the bushes and the dead auburn wreckage of the ferns , to the trees at the summit of the small hill . |
| 16 | I lay in the darkness but my soul lay , the insect 's child , washed in endless light . |
| 17 | But I lay in the bath and thought . |
| 18 | I lay in the bracken on the side of the hill and watched them . |
| 19 | So I lay in the dinghy for a few minutes , to recover myself , and think . |
| 20 | I lay in the small , gauzy tent made by my mosquito net and tossed and turned and had one dream after another . |
| 21 | One supports that I lay in the street looking and waiting for a a man they mention tonight and that man is a well known killer of British soldiers . |
| 22 | Federal troops took control on Saturday of another mainly Muslim town , Modrica , which lies in a corridor connecting Serbian enclaves in northern Bosnia . |
| 23 | These are taught to the initiate to show him the accepted response to the vagaries of order , disorder , ambiguity , and ambivalence which lies in the complexities of social behaviour . |
| 24 | Only the return through poetry and childhood images to the final home which lies in the blank page following the moment when ‘ the fire and the rose are one , . |
| 25 | From Novosibirsk , which lies in the middle of Siberia on the mighty Ob river , it is only 3,343km ( 2,077 miles ) to Moscow . |
| 26 | Food grooves in the arms channel the food to the mouth , which lies in the centre of the calyx . |
| 27 | A section of opinion believes that the emphasis on the Green Belt has obscured the major threat to the traditional British countryside which lies in the inappropriate development of small country towns . |
| 28 | by the N.N.E. striking Gifhorn Trough which lies in the northward continuation of the Hessen trough as part of the Mediterranean -Mjösen Zone . |
| 29 | Actually … the ‘ quarterback ’ symbolizes the libido , combining two instincts namely ( a ) Eros , which strives for even closer union and ( b ) the instinct for destruction of anything which lies in the path of Eros . |
| 30 | Hundreds more may be missing in the disaster at Llipi , in Bolivia , which lies in the foothills of the Andes . |