Example sentences of "she lie in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dido 's sobbing for her old lover even as she lies in the arms of her new one — this melancholy , which Virgil , and following him Hardy , responded to with such sympathy , is for Pound deathly , it precludes the genuinely ‘ new ’ , which he urgently wants to find and to celebrate . |
| 2 | I 'll show you how she lies in the landscape , in erotic invitation for those who enter … ‘ |
| 3 | She lies in the middle of Europe and has no protected borders … |
| 4 | She lies in a glass box in front of one of the side altars separating the school chapel from the one the nuns use , both fronting onto the heavily railed-Off sanctuary , surrounded by dusty wax flowers and palms and night-lights winking in ruby glass containers . |
| 5 | She lies in the churchyard in the village of Wootton , near Dorking : ‘ Elizabeth Titford . |
| 6 | Her face has been seen on millions of TV screens in the chocolate advert , where she lies in a bath calmly eating a Flake . |
| 7 | She lies in an open corner of the churchyard , where she can breathe the air from the moors . |
| 8 | Former Vogue model Rachel , who lives in Liverpool , features in a television advert in which she lies in a bath eating a Flake bar . |
| 9 | All night Gustave watched beside his sister 's corpse : she lying in her white wedding-dress , he sitting and reading Montaigne . |
| 10 | She lay in bed . |
| 11 | She lay in the sun on the grass with the dark man . |
| 12 | Only two days left , she thought , as she lay in the dark . |
| 13 | I kissed her for the last time as she lay in her hospital bed : the bedclothes were crisp and undisturbed , and she looked very clean , just as she would have wanted to ; and very small , because she was so old , and having started life none too big had ended up , at the age of ninety-one , not much bigger than a child . |
| 14 | She lay in the garden of the Villa Alberti near Siena with Wilson shelling peas at her feet and Pilade picking grasses and admiring each one extravagantly . |
| 15 | On Saturday he had been given some time off to visit his critically ill sister , 17-year-old Lillian , as she lay in hospital . |
| 16 | They both then sprinted off and were out of sight before the group of concerned shoppers could reach her as she lay in a faint on the bottom step below the church . |
| 17 | After sketching the steamboat , as she lay in the bay unlading her cargo , from the bridge over the water that divides Pultneytown from the old town of Wick , I got into one of the boats leaving the pier , and was landed on board the ‘ St. Nicholas , ’ thinking it would be more pleasant to visit Thurso by sailing round the coast than to go by rail . |
| 18 | A little later she lay in bed beside her snoring husband , staring into the darkness . |
| 19 | She lay in a room from which all the wood had been stripped , save for the pallet beneath her . |
| 20 | But the fire in her body when she lay in bed thinking of him that night warned her that she had to be strong or she would n't be able to reject him if he tried again . |
| 21 | She called out ‘ Come in , of course , Nathan , ’ and the young man entered , holding a bunch of flowers which he presented to her where she lay in bed . |
| 22 | As she lay in the dark , listening to the moan of the wind above the crash of the waves , she slowly came to the realisation that , although she had lost her father , his spirit would give her strength to go on without him . |
| 23 | All she felt as she lay in the dark was that Nicky could not satisfy her . |
| 24 | As she lay in the heat , she felt drowsy and at the same time tinglingly alive . |
| 25 | As she lay in bed that night , she was unable to sleep for the excitement of it all . |
| 26 | One night as she lay in bed with her husband , she heard ‘ a sound of melody so sweet and delectable , that she thought she had been in paradise ’ . |
| 27 | Two-year-old Bethany Hudson 's alarm started to smoulder and smoke as she lay in her cot . |
| 28 | The anger inside her went on boiling and boiling , and as she lay in bed that night she made a decision . |
| 29 | She lay in Charlotte 's bed and looked up at the ceiling that Charlotte had festooned with shawls and old curtains and Indian bedspreads ( there was a definite small weight in one of those hammocks : what lay there ? |
| 30 | She lay in her carefully , fustily feminine bedroom in her little house in Woodborough , and tormented Isobel . |