Example sentences of "[noun sg] was lying [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was now very , very small — and the little garden door was locked again , and the little gold key was lying on the glass table . |
| 2 | The key was lying on the floor . |
| 3 | Bigwig was lying across the wire , which came out under his belly and seemed to disappear into the ground . |
| 4 | The girl was lying on the floor of the aisle beside him . |
| 5 | Jagatan was lying on a couch under the awning at the door . |
| 6 | It froze again that night and everybody guessed that by morning his twisted icy body with its pathetic malformation was lying at the bottom of some gulley , where he would have taken cover from the snow and the wind . |
| 7 | According to second-hand reports of the conversation Krishchaty said that the body was lying on the ground at about 8,250m and that they had passed it two or three times . |
| 8 | His head was lying in the crook of her arm and the flat of his hand was spread over the bulge of her stomach . |
| 9 | The Walkman was lying in the road beside the vehicles , and Spicer later returned four cassettes taken from the Peugeot . |
| 10 | Well er by the time I arrived at the doorway to the room erm a male person was lying on the floor , spreadeagled er and my job would have been to cover him with the shot gun er to enable P C to go forward and handcuff the chap . |
| 11 | Olazabal maintained his ball was lying in a depression caused by a chair leg but got no sympathy . |
| 12 | The King was lying amongst the rocks and it was apparent he was dead . |
| 13 | Midnight was lying on the floor away from the bed she had made him . |
| 14 | A small brown object was lying on the ground near the larger of the two windows . |
| 15 | Much rubbish , mostly lengths of steel angle iron and sheet steel was lying around the building and sadly all traces of railway embellishments , fencing , paving lighting and signs had long been swept away , leaving just mud , weeds and scrub . |
| 16 | The baby was lying in a cradle of osiers , crooning to itself like a wood-pigeon . |
| 17 | Yes but you see at this time the girl took up her tea tray and , and when she took , she knocked on the door and when she opened the door the Manageress was lying on the floor |
| 18 | Ruthven 's ink-stained quill was lying on the floor . |
| 19 | The car was badly damaged and one man was lying in a ditch . |
| 20 | " The man was lying in the mud , and the doctor could n't do much in the way of examination on the spot . |
| 21 | Then I tipped the leg and the can over until the leg was lying at the same angle on the grass as it had been , behind Blyth . |
| 22 | To his horror he realised his hand was lying in the embers . |
| 23 | A Dragoon was lying in the ditch , his helmet fallen into a nettle patch . |
| 24 | What was left of Jack Scamp was lying across the middle of the road , face down , about fifty feet behind me . |
| 25 | When I ran into the kitchen the oven was lying on the ground and thought she had done it . |
| 26 | Fiver , however , came over to where Blackberry was lying against the stem of a blackthorn in the hedge . |
| 27 | Her Suzy Lamplugh Trust personal rape alarm was lying on the ground a few feet away . |
| 28 | A handful of her hair was lying on the floor . |
| 29 | The bag was lying on a bed . |
| 30 | Sycorax was lying in the common pit , alongside the cadavers of islanders who had also been caught in the fighting , and were awaiting return for burial under the terms of the peace . |