Example sentences of "that lay on " in BNC.
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| 1 | But these bright spots were dimmed by the assassination of the Western-orientated Hashemite royal family in Baghdad on 14th July 1958 during the Nasser-inspired coup , which ended Britain 's treaty relations with Iraq and led to the RAF 's withdrawal from the Habbaniyah and Shu'aiba air bases that lay on the air-reinforcement route to the Far East . |
| 2 | Grimly he started to sing an old war-song , to lift the weight that lay on them all . |
| 3 | Nails said , towards the kitchen door , ‘ I 'm goin' out , ’ picked up a leather jacket that lay on the floor , shrugged it on and opened the door again . |
| 4 | At the crash from the front door he came out of his chair and reached for a twelve-bore shotgun that lay on the pine table . |
| 5 | McIllvanney shook a cigarette out of a packet , then opened his briefcase that lay on the floor beside his chair . |
| 6 | A large gloomy bedroom had been the setting of it , hung with draperies , not the kind of thing you would expect a child to sleep in , but it was a little child that lay on the bed , white and still , the elderly man , evidently a doctor , who had seemingly just lifted a looking glass from the parted lips , turning to the young father and imparting the news of death , while the mother in a transport of grief clung to her husband , her head buried in his shoulder . |
| 7 | She moved up the stairs past the few skins that lay on a table and made her way into the office . |
| 8 | Not in a career sense , because the leaden weight that lay on her heart told her that his career was now Loxford with Quindale , Church End , New End and Snead until relieved by the trumpets of Doomsday , but as a person . |
| 9 | As he watched the young couple make love on the small bed , he lit another cigarette with the lighter that lay on the table beside him . |
| 10 | Nicholson laid it on a piece of black velvet that lay on the work top , allowing his visitors to get a better look at the tiny object . |
| 11 | He picked up the file that lay on the desk and flipped it open . |
| 12 | The useless girl that I was might have grown without diversion , etiolated and bland like a stalk of grass under a stone , from those early days , represented still by the dolls and bears that lay on the cupboard shelves . |
| 13 | It turned from the storm and from those inside the office block ; its need focusing on the ruined corpse that lay on the pavement next to it . |
| 14 | I took a pile of the French and American magazines that lay on a table in the corner and went out under the colonnade . |
| 15 | Sometimes she eased the weight that lay on Scarlet 's heart for an hour or two , but the relief never lasted . |
| 16 | She glanced across at the dog-eared book of maps that lay on the passenger-seat beside her . |
| 17 | It was exactly like the map that lay on the table . |
| 18 | When the bundle of clothes hit the ground it was the dog who realised first that there was something inside , also broken and crumpled , and after the dog came the children , who revolved round the heap , fascinated , until one noticed the blood and began to scream , and adults arrived to remove them from whatever it was that lay on the concrete . |
| 19 | Lucy also left the bed in a hurry , fastening her jacket and then snatching up a comb that lay on the bedside table . |
| 20 | Denuded heads on pale green drooping stems hung like mourners at a graveside over the ring of faded scarlet petals that lay on the painted wood . |
| 21 | The Admiral reached for the pipe that lay on the table beside him , took out a tobacco pouch , filled the pipe carefully , lit it , sucked in the smoke and blew it out luxuriously . |
| 22 | Now he looked again at the two betting-slips that lay on the table in front of him ; then turned to the back of the Business section for the Sport , his eye running down the results of the previous day 's racing at Fontwell Park . |
| 23 | She hesitated and her fingers began pleating a paper serviette that lay on the table ; then , glancing briefly at Rachel and taking a deep breath , she continued , ‘ But I was heartbroken over something else as well , and it was n't David . |
| 24 | Quickly she banished the memory , but as she was about to declare she thought he had a sauce , he had opened the folder that lay on the desk and , taking out a sheet of paper , inspected it through the lenses . |
| 25 | ‘ As sure as hell not to see through , that 's a fact ! ’ he ripped into her flatly , and , before she could draw breath , he prodded at the folder that lay on his desk and rapped , ‘ You read perfectly well from this file — without your glasses — the night I delivered it to your apartment ! ’ |
| 26 | The young officer touched a large box that lay on his desk . |